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Mendocino Seaweed & Purple Sea Urchin Extravaganza
Sat, Jun 28
|Mendocino
Learn to harvest seaweed and sea urchin for their delicious uni. There are vast urchin barrens along the Sonoma & Mendocino Coast. This is eating for a solution!


Time & Location
Jun 28, 2025, 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Mendocino, 8001 CA-1, Little River, CA 95456, USA
About the event
It's seaweed season! Come out and learn about nori, kombu, bladderwrack and wakame. As well, 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 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 not, you are welcome to watch us collect and help us clean them and join in prepping and eating the uni. Please bring…