Take a tour of Atlantic Sea Farms' processing facility

Over 98 percent of the seaweed we consume in the US is grown in Asia with little or no environmental oversight.

What you eat at your local sushi bar is often re-hydrated when it gets to the States and then dyed that bright green color. For enterprising American kelp farmers, there is a huge opportunity to supply chefs, home cooks and companies like Atlantic Sea Farms with fresh, environmentally sound and highly nutritious kelp. 

At Atlantic Sea Farms’ processing facility in Portland, Maine, all of the freshly harvested kelp that the company’s partner farmers have pulled from the sea is sorted, washed and packaged by hand. Some is cut and used in the company's fermented seaweed salad, kim chi and kraut.

Other sheets are kept whole, used by chefs as a wrap for fish, much like a banana leaf. The stems are cut from the leaves and packaged separately — these hollow stems can be cut like scallions to add crunch and delicious nutrition to a range of dishes like salads and soups.