Canadian Kelp Resources

05/03/2024

We hope you can join us in Victoria on May 5 to celebrate Louis Druehl’s new novel!

06/05/2022

Rae Hopkins will be reading the Seaweed Story tonight. Please join us!

Something for the kiddos too!
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In addition to the cool family-friendly activities happening at and during , we are also offering children’s stories on YouTube. Read by some amazing local personalities and premiering each night at 6:45pm starting June 3!

🔆Visit the Seaweed Days website for the full event calendar and to register!
🔗in the Cascadia Seaweed bio.

11/07/2021

Rain or shine, Rae gets the kelp to the post office!

Getting the kelp from the ocean to your mailbox takes three boat rides just to get from Bamfield to Port Alberni! From the kelp beds to our kelp drying room, over to the post office in West Bamfield, and then by ferry to Port Alberni.

09/03/2021

12/15/2020

Louis is always up to something new! It’s the time of year to get kelp seed in the water. Here is Louis and Amy planting some Alaria seed along a cultivation line, testing out some experimental configurations in Port Desire.

12/10/2020

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whatonearth/why-seaweed-might-be-the-next-key-asset-in-the-fight-against-climate-change-1.5829026

Researchers, industry and advocates are talking up seaweed and kelp as a solution to food insecurity, to methane emissions, and more. But it's also on the radar because some kelp beds are under threat from climate change.

12/06/2020

Talking kelp and climate change. Catch Louis Druehl at the 23 minute mark on this weekends episode of What On Earth!

Listen in on the What On Earth CBC Podcast or check it out on CBC Radio One at 12:30 on December 6!

11/30/2020

Wow, thank you to our fabulous customers for all of the orders lately! Reminder that mail leaves Bamfield by boat only three days a week, and mail is slower this year than normal. Sometimes we also experience extensive power outages with all of these storms lately. That can caused a delay to the shipping process for ourselves and our local post office. This is what living in a small village on the West Coast looks like sometimes!

We appreciate your patience as we ship orders out and a reminder to get your orders in soon if you are holiday shopping to ensure they have lots of time to get to you.

Please order before December 5th to give your package enough time to arrive. We will still fill orders after the 5th, but just know they might not arrive in time if it is a holiday gift.

We still have our free shipping offer going on for orders of $75 or more.

Thanks for shopping with us. We truly appreciate your support!

09/27/2020

Kelp is the new kale!” shouted headlines a few years ago. And then...silence. The promised kelp revolution has not yet transformed B.C.’s West Coast. But it will. We have everything we need to fall in love with kelp.

And what’s not to love? If you're craving a healthier fix for your salt tooth, then kelp is your veggie. But it's also much more than that.

When you eat kelp, you get a tasty superfood with a range of health-enhancing properties: Omega-3s, fibre, iodine, vitamin B and protein. It boasts an impressive cultural pedigree — people have been eating it for thousands of years. Plus, when cultivated it's an amazing crop that can also be used as harm-free fertilizer, livestock feed, biofuel, biodegradable packaging and more.

Best of all, kelp saves the world by cleansing the ocean. The more we grow, the bigger we win. As Bren Smith, executive director and co-founder of GreenWave regenerative ocean farming, explains, kelp cultivation not only creates ideal growing conditions and habitats for many forms of sea life, it also filters out the toxins polluting oceans from agricultural, urban and industrial run-off. Kelp's rapid lifecycle means that when cultivated, there's no danger of overharvesting. Author Michael Pollan dubs this growing method a "revolutionary new model."

As the 2020 Seaweed Manifesto from the United Nations’ Global Compact so eloquently states: “Seaweed has the potential to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges... The aim is to restore abundance to the ocean, while solving some of the world’s biggest societal challenges.”

"Cultivating Kelp" by Michelle Superle featuring Canadian Kelp Resources, Cascadia Seaweed and North Pacific Kelp Wild Foods Inc.. Photo by James MacDonlad.

Read the full article here: https://ediblevancouver.com/articles/cultivating-kelp

09/07/2020

“It’s always been kelp.” -Louis Druehl

https://time.com/5848994/seaweed-climate-change-solution/

Seaweed can play a huge role in fighting climate change by absorbing carbon emissions

08/27/2020

Stock up on all of your favourite kelp products because we are offering FREE SHIPPING on orders of $75 or more. ⠀
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Reminder, we are currently only shipping within Canada. ⠀
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Visit our website, explore the Gift Shop and Products pages to add your items to your cart. ⠀
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@ Bamfield, British Columbia

08/25/2020

Recently we had a visit from on assignment for Time Magazine! Here she is documenting Amy, our harvest coordinator, demonstrating the CKR sustainable harvest technique for Macro Kelp. Interested in how we harvest Macro Kelp? Stay tuned...
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07/08/2020

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These boxes have been in constant use since they were rescued from a beach fire in 1992. Someday they will be recycled! Each bit of writing represents one year's use. These are our equivalent of scotch barrels in the aging of our kelp products.⠀
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06/26/2020

A great video from our friends at Puget Sound Restoration Fund

Enjoy this dive into the world of kelp in Puget Sound. Our team and many partners explore how we can harness the power of kelp to improve growing conditions ...

04/21/2020

Canadian Kelp Resources responds to COVID-19.

We continue to follow BC Provincial food-handling regulations. When we handle kelp or package your order, we thoroughly clean our hands and disinfect all tools and working surfaces before and after use. For personnel safety, only one employee is present in the packaging room at any one time. Our harvesting and processing team have always been dedicated to providing high quality products and following safe food handling procedures, this time is no exception and we will continue to remain vigilant.

CKR sales are down due to loss of the hotel and restaurant business. Rather than layoff staff, we are using this time to perform maintenance to our facilities to support our harvest season. We will vigorously and sustainably pursue the 2020 harvest season. We appreciate your continued support of our kelp products.

On a personal note, my wife Rae and I are well, but due to our age, remain in semi-isolation. We hope you and yours are well and in good spirits.

Louis, Rae and the CKR team

12/03/2019

Dear Customers, please order before December 10th if you are ordering any holidays gifts to ensure your package arrives on time.

December 10 will also be the cut off date for all orders going to the United States. We will no longer be shipping to the US in 2020.

Thank you to all of our wonderful customers. We hope you enjoy your kelp!

06/09/2019

Harvesting season is in full swing! Here’s Owen collecting Macrocystis from the Kelp Express.
@ Bamfield, British Columbia

10/29/2018

Check out this great Mussels and Kelp Pappardelle from Ocean Wise Executive Chef Ned Bell! It is so easy to add kelp to any recipe! Try this recipe using our Kelp Flakes or Bull Kelp.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4590744/recipe-mussels-and-kelp-pappardelle/

Iron Chef Canada competitor Ned Bell cooks Mussels and Kelp Pappardelle.