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John & Barbara Stephens~Lewallen
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July 16 and 17, 2011 Barbara and John will be joining with Cat Briar Spirit of Conscious Creations Productions in offering a two-day seaweed wildcrafting intensive seminar at Mendocino County's amazing Greenwood Beach in Elk. The seminar includes two seaweed wildcrafting walks, with complete information on harmonious harvesting, drying, storage and dining preparation of the most delectable wild seaweeds. There will be a campout for interested participants at a private, local camping area. Barbara, John and Cat are world renowned experts on wild edible seaeed, with decades of experience wildcrafting seaweed, supplying a global market for gourmet dried seaweeds, and leading seaweed walks and seminars. Hands-on instruction in gourmet preparation of raw and cooked meals with wild seaweeds, with information on the nutritional and healing properties of various seaweeds. This seaweed wildcrafting educational seminar and campout is a rare and special opportunity for both the inexperienced and advanced edible seaweed wildcrafters. The Mendocino Wild Seaweed Safari will take place on Saturday and Sunday July 16 and 17, 2011. The Greenwood Beach in Elk is a three-hour drive north of the San Francisco Bay area. Campout participants are invited to check in on Friday, July 15, at the camping area. Campers are asked to bring food, water, and camping gear, and clothing suitable for walking on slippery rocks and in shallow tidepools in cold, windy, and warm conditions. Locals, people who prefer to stay in the local inns, and those who have physical or other limitations on full participation, are also welcome. Cost of full participation in this two-day seminar, including group seaweed meal preparation and pot luck dining, and informational handouts, is $300, camping fee not included. For harvesting equipment, bring a sharp knife and food-grade plastic bags and backpack for collecting trimmed seaweed blades. All are invited to bring natural offerings of beauty for the ocean spirits. Cat, Barbara, and John practice and teach harmonious seaweed wildcrafting, attuned to the spirits of the elements and the human community. Enrollment in the Mendocino Wild Seaweed Safari is limited. A $45 non-refundable deposit is required to hold your place. Mail your advanced deposit to Conscious Creations Productions, P.O. Box 2235, Willits, CA 95490, to ensure your participation in this unique and valuable educational opportunity. Checks can be made out to "Conscious Creations Productions." Visa and Mastercard payments are also accepted. For credit card payments, and detailed information on the Mendocino Wild Seaweed Safari, call Barbara or John at 707-895-2996 or Cat at 707-272-7765. We are looking forward to celebrating with you our 34th year of Wildcrafting the Beautiful, Wild Seaweeds that grow along the clean, wild, nutrient rich waters off the Mendocino Coast. Our Seaweed dance of love and peace. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all of your support over the years. Wishing you good health and happiness, Love, Barbara and John Stephens~Lewallen Since 1980 we've operated the Mendocino Sea Vegetable Company providing quality wildcrafted sea vegetables and information. If you can't find what you want to know about edible wild seaweed here, email us, or phone or write us: PO Box 455, Philo, Ca 95466 Phone: (707) 895-2996 "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
Tsukigase Health Green Tea
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! |
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Mendocino Sea Vegetable Company P.O. Box 455, Philo, CA 95466 707 895-2996 kombuko@seaweed.net