Our adventures are small group, hands-on foraging, fishing, arts, crafts, and cooking excursions crafted to deepen our relationships with the natural world. We also offer private experiences that be offsite or onsite.
Fall in love with nature through your senses
Mendocino Purple Sea Urchin & Seaweed Extravaganza
Sun, Jul 05
|Van Damme State Park
Learn to harvest sea urchin for their delicious uni along with a variety of seaweeds. Seafood doesn't get any fresher!
Time & Location
Jul 05, 2026, 8:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Van Damme State Park, 8001 CA-1, Little River, CA 95456, USA
About the event
There's been an explosion of purple sea urchin along the California Coast. These creatures are not invasive, but rather signify an ecosystem out of balance. In this workshop you'll learn about how they threaten the bull kelp that has been disappearing along our coast due to a perfect storm of environmental stressors that are related to climate change. We'll also talk about how the vital role that bull kelps plays in the ecosystem and how abalone have been suffering due to this explosion of sea urchin.
And then we will collect and clean the sea urchin and eat uni! And you'll learn different ways of preparing seaweed.
For this workshop, you'll need a one day or seasonal fishing license if you want to collect sea urchin. If you only want to collect seaweed, you do not need one. But you absolutely cannot take a sea urchin without a fishing license. And…
Tickets
Low Tide Extravaganza
If you can't make this event, feel free to gift your spot to a friend.
$135.00
+$3.38 ticket service fee
Total
$0.00