Mastodawn

@DoomsdaysCW Well, now I’m curious. Where do you get your seaweed? (I’m worried you’re going to tell me the ocean.)

@ClimateJenny I do harvest very small amounts of bladderwrack that lands on the beach. I don't touch any that's living in the water. I also purchase Dulse commercially to mix with it.

@DoomsdaysCW Oh well. It’s almost spring.

@ClimateJenny Yup. And I have a beach excursion planned for next weekend. Not taking any chances. I'm sure you heard about what is happening in Wellington. Coastal York county has had similar issues, unfortunately.🤮

@ClimateJenny I also harvest it in late winter, before there's any chance of sewage leakage from spring rains (and yeah, that's a problem here in Maine).

@ClimateJenny And even then, I rinse and boil what I find.

@DoomsdaysCW I don’t know if you heard, but there was a massive sewage leak upstream on the Potomac, so nobody should be harvesting anything there. We do have a few struggling aquatic grasses, but I don’t know the species and it’s only occasionally that some washes up onto the shore.

@ClimateJenny We have plenty of bladderwrack here in Maine. And like I mentioned, I try and do honorable harvest. Small amounts that wash onshore.

@ClimateJenny And in that case, I would definitely purchase commercial seaweed that's been tested. Maine Seaweed Dulse is a good substitute, harvested sustainably, dedicated areas, etc.

@DoomsdaysCW I’ll look for that! My skin has had a very hard winter.