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arikara

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15. We are fortunate here to have unpolluted beaches
Mon Dec 30, 2013, 12:20 AM
Dec 2013

and lots of varieties of seaweeds around. I love the bull kelp, but I do harvest some fucoids as well. We have a local biologist who's passion is seaweeds and she has put on workshops showing how and where to gather them sustainably from clean local areas.

I got into seaweed when my TCM health practitioner suggested that I start eating it. So I went to the health food store, bought a bag of the dried kelp, opened it up in the car and had a piece. I didn't put the bag down until it was finished, such was my craving I guess. Now I crumble a piece of it into pretty much everything I cook. You can also just put a piece into your bathwater and absorb the nutrients through your skin.

Its wonderful stuff.

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We are fortunate here to have unpolluted beaches arikara Dec 2013 #15
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I make everything I can too arikara Dec 2013 #18
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