Kitchen7 min read
Seaweed Ramen at Home: Building a Kelp-Deep Bowl
Build a deeply savoury seaweed ramen from scratch — kombu-forward broths, kombu tare, topping strategy, and which seaweeds earn a place in the bowl.
Sofia Andersson ·
The Tidewright Journal
Everything we know about growing back the ocean.
Encyclopedia entries, coastal atlas guides, science explainers, farming know-how and recipes — written by Tidewright’s scientists, engineers, chefs and field crews, and open to everyone.
Kitchen9 min read
Seaweed Rice Bowls: Five Paths Through the Tide Line
A rice bowl is seaweed's natural home. Five tested seaweed rice bowl builds — from 10-minute weeknight to slow Sunday — with prep, sauces and swaps.
Sofia Andersson ·
Kitchen8 min read
Seaweed Salt Blends: The Easiest Way Into Sea Vegetables
Seaweed salt is the lowest-friction way to cook with kelp, dulse and nori. Learn blending ratios, three starter recipes, grind tips and iodine guidance.
Sofia Andersson ·
Kitchen8 min read
Make Your Own Seaweed Salt: Ratios, Roasting and Blends
Turn dried kelp, dulse or nori into jars of seaweed salt. Oven-drying temperatures, milling tips, tested ratios, three blends and storage rules.
Sofia Andersson ·
Kitchen10 min read
Baking with Seaweed: Sourdough, Focaccia and the Salt-to-Flake Rule
Baking bread with seaweed changes your salt, your hydration and your flavour. The salt-to-flake rule, a seaweed sourdough method, kombu focaccia and fixes.
Sofia Andersson ·
Kitchen8 min read
Baja-Style Seaweed Tacos: Ceviche, Slaw and Toasted Nori
How to build Baja-style seaweed tacos: kelp ceviche fillings, crunchy seaweed slaw, toasted nori garnish and everything a first-timer needs to get them right.
Sofia Andersson ·
Kitchen7 min read
Seaweed Tapenade: Olive and Kelp on Crostini
Seaweed tapenade swaps some olives for wakame or dulse in a briny, umami-rich spread. Recipe, seaweed choices, textures, serving ideas and storage.
Sofia Andersson ·
Farming9 min read
Seaweed Traceability and Certification: Labeling the Farmed Ocean
Buyers increasingly ask where kelp came from, who grew it and how. How seaweed traceability and voluntary certification work — and what records a farm should keep.
Naomi Reyes ·
Kitchen9 min read
The Science of Seaweed Umami: Why Kelp Makes Everything Taste More
Kombu led chemists to discover umami in 1908. How glutamate, ribonucleotides and salt work together — and how to use seaweed umami in everyday cooking.
Sofia Andersson ·
Farming9 min read
What Is a Tonne of Kelp Worth? Seaweed Value Chains and Pricing Explained
Farm-gate price, wet-to-dry ratios, grade premia and buyer margins — an honest, number-first walk through how a tonne of kelp is actually priced, step by step.
Naomi Reyes ·
Kitchen7 min read
Seaweed Vegetable Broth: A Deep, Clean Stock for Everything
A savoury vegetable broth built on kombu and dried shiitake — deep, clean, and versatile enough for soups, grains, braises and sauces.
Sofia Andersson ·
Kitchen9 min read
Seaweed Vinegar: Steeping Kelp for Dressings and Pickles
How to infuse vinegar with kombu, dulse and nori — ratios, steeping times, pairing choices, and where seaweed vinegar earns its place at the stove.
Sofia Andersson ·
Farming9 min read
Seaweed Yield Benchmarks: What a Hectare Should Produce
Realistic seaweed yield ranges by species — wet vs dry, per metre vs per hectare — why quoted numbers vary so wildly, and how to benchmark your own farm.
Naomi Reyes ·
Blue Carbon12 min read
Reading the Core: How Sediment Sampling Measures Blue Carbon
Scientists measure blue carbon by coring the seabed. Here is how a sediment core is taken, dated and turned into the carbon numbers behind coastal credits.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Science8 min read
Sediment Traps: Catching Carbon on Its Way Down
How do we measure carbon sinking through ocean? Sediment traps — moored funnels hundreds of metres deep — catch marine snow and tally the export flux.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Farming12 min read
Quarantine at the Hatchery Gate: Biosecurity for Kelp Seedlings
The seaweed hatchery is the farm's biosecurity front line. Intake quarantine, screening methods, health certificates, and the seedling protocols that protect farms and reefs.
Naomi Reyes ·
Farming10 min read
Selling Your Seaweed: Buyers, Grades and Honest Pricing
Who actually buys farmed kelp, how buyers grade and price it, what contracts look like, and how to avoid the most common — and expensive — selling mistakes.
Naomi Reyes ·
Atlas9 min read
Senja and Arctic Norway's Mainland: Kelp Where the Fjords Meet the Barents Sea
Senja and Norway's Barents coast grow clear-water Arctic kelp patrolled by orcas. A regional guide to the kelp, cod and whales of the high north.
Tom Okafor ·
Atlas12 min read
The Seto Inland Sea: Japan's Sheltered Cradle of Seaweed Farming
Japan's Seto Inland Sea: the cradle of nori farming, wakame rafts and Hiroshima oysters, the isoyake paradox of clean water, and the Satoumi renewal.
Naomi Reyes ·
Encyclopedia8 min read
Sheep Crab (Loxorhynchus grandis): The Giant Spider Crab of California Kelp
The California sheep crab is a slow, spiny giant of the kelp forest floor — a decorator crab that outgrew its disguise. Meet Loxorhynchus grandis.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Farming10 min read
Adding Kelp to a Shellfish Farm: The Two-Line Upgrade
A practical layout and timing guide for mussel and oyster farmers adding kelp longlines — spacing, intercropping, nutrient balance, harvest sequence and the honest economics.
Naomi Reyes ·
Atlas9 min read
The Shetland Islands: Kelp, Otters and the North Atlantic Front
Shetland grows some of Britain's finest kelp forests: clear northern water, Eurasian otters and an intact sea culture on the North Atlantic front.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Encyclopedia7 min read
Shiner Surfperch: The Silver Cloud in the Canopy
The shiner surfperch (Cymatogaster aggregata) is the small, schooling seaperch of Pacific kelp beds and piers — a live-bearing forage fish worth knowing.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Encyclopedia8 min read
Shore Crab (Carcinus maenas): Survivor at the Kelp's Edge — and Invader Abroad
Carcinus maenas is Europe's toughest shore crab — a kelp-edge scavenger at home and one of the world's most consequential marine invaders everywhere else.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·