What You'll Learn

Join us for a free 60-minute online introductory class about California seaweeds led by Autumn Summers. We will provide an overview of where seaweeds live and how to identify and sustainably harvest common edible seaweeds growing on the Northern California coast.  We’ll also discuss the impact of sea urchin overpopulation on our seaweed beds. The class is offered in tandem with our in-person seaweed foraging classes happening on the Sonoma Coast.  Information, dates, and registration for those classes can be found here. 

Where

This is a free online class. A Zoom link will be sent out to all registered attendees on the day of your class.
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Instructors

Autumn Summers (she/her) is an avid wild foods forager, herbalist, gardener, and ethnobotanist. Autumn is passionate about sharing her 35 years of experience in an accessible and empowering way.  She teaches botany, medicinal plant cultivation, and how to safely and sustainably gather and use abundant wild edibles, including seaweeds and mushrooms, in Northern California. She teaches at several herbal schools in NorCal and is the lead herbal educator for Herb Pharm.

Ricardo Romero Gianoli (he/him) has been living, foraging, and cooking in Northern California since 2008. One of his passions and career focuses is kelp forest restoration. Ricardo is a certified restoration scuba diver and kelp forest monitor who has surveyed sites from the Salish Sea to Orange County but he focuses his restoration efforts on the Sonoma and Mendocino coasts. It is his greatest joy to connect people with the ocean through adventure, food, and education in the intertidal zone.