Mendocino Sea Vegetable Company

"Sea vegetables" are seaweed, marine algae, which are not only edible but actually beautiful and delectable.  Packed with nutritional and healing properties needed now as never before, sea vegetables are rapidly moving from Asian cultures, where for centuries they have been regarded as food for kings and gods, into the natural healing foods and even gourmet cuisine markets of the Western world.

If you want to see our  Current Price List , click here for a list of the wild seaweeds we harvest, dry, and ship anywhere in the world.

Our 32 page booklet "Sea Vegetable Gourmet Cookbook and Foragers Guide" written in 1987 is still available, while John and I are writing our new Wild Sea Vegetable Cook book and harvesting guide. It will contain the wild sea vegetables of the world's temperate oceans, along with complete nutritional information on wild sea vegetables and new & exciting recipes including preparing sea vegetables 'in the raw' & healthy fermenting.  Click here for  Sea Vegetable Book Ordering Information .

Dulse Wildcrafting with Devotional Love: John Banks of White Head Island
White Head Island Dulse, wildcrafted with devotional love by John Banks, is the very best North Atlantic Dulse John and Barbara Stephens-Lewallen observed on our September, 2006 “Wild Seaweed Safari” to coastal Northern Maine, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. We are honored to offer White Head Island Dulse to Mendocino Sea Vegetable Company customers. Read more...

Tsukigase Health Green Tea
Tsukigase Health Green Tea is a Japanese green tea of unsurpassed quality and taste.  Probably you have never tasted green tea as good as these tender young leaves from a family-tended tea garden in an ancient Japanese village.  Lovingly grown by the Iwata Family without agricultural chemicals, Tsukigase Health Green Tea is certified organic by the Government of Nara Prefecture, Japan.

Many Americans are now aware that green tea is a health-giving, mildly stimulating drink.  Yet it is difficult to find green tea that is both organic and good-tasting.  Now, in limited quantity, we can bring you the best from the Japanese organic farming movement.  Click to visit the Iwatas in their Tsukigase Health Tea Garden.

Click here to access  Other sites of Interest: The Worldwide Seaweed Net . Thanks to Professor Mike Guiry of the University of Ireland at Galway, we're connected with marine algae/seaweed/sea vegetable information from around the planet Earth.

Now come with us to explore harvesting and cooking with a wild sea vegetable.  Click here to visit either the  White Head Island Dulse or the  kombu (laminaria digitata & setchelli) of both coasts of North America.

Check out  Recipes for some of our favorite sea vegetable cooking concepts.

 Ocean Protection is part of the Lewallens' life with seaweed.  You can help keep the sacred sea vegetable habitat pure.

Family Life in the Tidepools offers my late wife Eleanor's writing as a mother, ocean protection activist, and seaweed harvester.

A Healing Food for our Era presents some of John's writings on sea vegetables.

We'd love to hear from you.  Please drop us a quick  email note with your responses to our website!