Our Vision for a Healthy Future
Our mission is to offer healthy, local seagreens to our community, with a low carbon footprint. This extends to planting, maintaining, harvesting, and shipping, in addition to the benefit of carbon sequestration. Our seagreens enterprise will also provide a model for a dual usage of reefnet sites, allowing for year-round income to fishers.
Local
Offering a local source of sea greens to restaurants and business.
Healthful
A healthy food that is high in vitamins and minerals.
Sustainable
Sustainably harvested, and good for the environment.
Job Creation
Using our reefnet fishing site to create year round employment.
Growing Seagreens in the Pacific Northwest
Our First Crop
Our first crop of sugar kelp has been harvested and we are excited because it was a success!
- Our buyer, Stephen Shreck from Salish SeaGreens, said it was the best sugar kelp he has ever handled.
- The blades were 10′ long and 8″ wide, with no fouling or other degradation.
- We learned a lot! As it was our first planting, we scaled it back, but our next planting will be larger and there will be more to go around.
- By growing seaweed we are increasing the ph of the surrounding water by capturing carbon, thus mitigating ocean acidification, benefiting the Salish Sea, and creating a better environment for our salmon, Orca whales and all sea life to thrive in.
- Research shows that seaweed has potential health benefits, and because of this it’s popularity has grown. It’s low in calories and rich in bio-active compounds. It contains vitamins A, D, E, C and B, and minerals including calcium, potassium, magnesium and iron.
Our Team
During his years on Lummi Island Riley built Nettles Farm, now a culinary B&B; he co-founded Lummi Island Wild, a fish company; and, from 2001-2013, created the present iteration of the Willows Inn on Lummi Island.
In 2017 Riley founded the Salish Center for Sustainable Fishing Methods with the goal of continuing the educational work he has done since 2001, first through the Willows Inn and then through Lummi Island Wild, educating people about the reefnet fishing industry and the sustainability of the Salish Sea.
Reflecting Larry’s commitment to the environment, all seafood in the chowders is 100% Certified Sustainable. He joined forces with Riley Starks and Salish Center in 2018 and has been a staunch supporter ever since, working to revive the Salish Sea, and restore the habitats for its inhabitants.
Contact us
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Our location
4036 Legoe Bay Rd.
Lummi Island, WA 98262