At Cascadia Seaweed, we cultivate local species of seaweed and manufacture products for crop and cattle farmers.
Cascadia Seaweed Holds Kelp Cutting to Celebrate New Office Space
On Saturday, February 29, the team at Cascadia Seaweed welcomed over 40 guests, including representation from all three levels of government, to their new headquarters in Sidney.
After a heartfelt territorial acknowledgement from chairman Bill Collins, managing partner Mike Williamson spoke about Cascadia’s “tremendous progress” and exciting plans for the future. MLA, Adam Olsen spoke of his appreciation for the coastal people who have harvested food from our oceans for generations and expressed gratitude for this new, carbon positive venture.
In true seaweed fashion, Chief Operating Officer, Tony Ethier cut a ribbon of kelp to ceremonially welcome friends, family, investors, politicians and members of the business community to the freshly painted C-Suite 9774 Third Street in Sidney.
From it’s office in Sidney, Cascadia Seaweed has plans to build a business providing a large quantity of high quality seaweed as an ingredient in the human food industry ,as well as the bio packaging and industrial sectors. Currently they have two 1 hectare farms in the water outside Bamfield and are working with the Port Alberni Food Hub as a processing facility.
After a heartfelt territorial acknowledgement from chairman Bill Collins, managing partner Mike Williamson spoke about Cascadia’s “tremendous progress” and exciting plans for the future. MLA, Adam Olsen spoke of his appreciation for the coastal people who have harvested food from our oceans for generations and expressed gratitude for this new, carbon positive venture.
In true seaweed fashion, Chief Operating Officer, Tony Ethier cut a ribbon of kelp to ceremonially welcome friends, family, investors, politicians and members of the business community to the freshly painted C-Suite 9774 Third Street in Sidney.
From it’s office in Sidney, Cascadia Seaweed has plans to build a business providing a large quantity of high quality seaweed as an ingredient in the human food industry ,as well as the bio packaging and industrial sectors. Currently they have two 1 hectare farms in the water outside Bamfield and are working with the Port Alberni Food Hub as a processing facility.
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.
