At Cascadia Seaweed, we cultivate local species of seaweed and manufacture products for crop and cattle farmers.
Cascadia Seaweed wins Ocean Products of the Year Award
Months before their first anniversary, Cascadia Seaweed Corporation is recognized at the Grant Thornton LLP Vancouver Island Business Excellence Awards for Ocean Products.
On Thursday evening at the Westin Bear Mountain Resort in Langford, the Vancouver Island Business Examiner hosted an awards Gala along with presenting sponsor Grant Thornton LLP. Vancouver Island businesses gather at this annual event to network, celebrate accomplishments, and recognize businesses in 17 categories.
Up against businesses from Courtney and Sooke, Cascadia was proud to accept the award for Ocean Products. Cascadia was proud to be in the company of many successful Saanich Peninsula based businesses at the ceremony.
Cascadia Seaweed is a growing company positioned to be the largest cultivator of high quality, in demand seaweed for the human food, bio-packaging and nutraceutical industries of North America, and proud to call Sidney home-base.
With partnerships formed with Nuu-chah-nulth Seafood LP and West Coast First Nations, Cascadia has two seaweed farms in the ocean near Bamfield with first harvest expected in June. President of Cascadia, Mike Williamson says that they are proud of their deliverables, claiming that the small company is reliable and has done exactly what they say they are going to do.
A sample of Cascadia’s sugar kelp is on display at the Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea.
Why scientists are looking to landscaping gravel to help restore Nova Scotia's kelp
Cascadia Seaweed is honoured to announce its participation at the Conference of the Parties (COP) in Dubai.
Collaborating on Biodiversity Technologies in Aquaculture Can Yield Multiple Benefits
The three-year project is funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC) and implemented by Plan International Canada (Plan) in partnership with Cascadia Seaweed, the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada, and Kenyan experts.
Cascadia Seaweed, the leading ocean cultivator of brown seaweeds in Canada, is pleased to announce the successful completion of its recent harvest season which exceeded biomass predictions.
Seaweed’s greatest potential to be both commercially successful and environmentally positive is using it as a biostimulant in order to increase terrestrial crops yields, while reducing the traditional agriculture sector’s reliance on chemical fertlisers, rather than as a means of sequestering blue carbon.
Greater Victoria gears up to welcome an impressive gathering of industry experts, academics, Indigenous Peoples and students at the highly anticipated 25th International Seaweed Symposium from May 4 - 9, 2025.
Liquid Seaweed Extract is produced by Cascadia Seaweed on Vancouver Island and will be sold under the ReFeed Brand.
Cascadia Seaweed Accelerates the Commercialization of Large-scale Agrifeed and Biostimulant Products with funding from the BC Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy
Regenerative and restorative aquaculture operations, such as seaweed farms, can be economically – as well as ecologically – sound, according to two of the key players in the space.
