Festival Details!

The free full-day, family-friendly Festival will be at the Wharfinger Building on the Eureka waterfront, packed with seaweed activities! Highlights include:

• A vendor marketplace with seaweed and ocean themed products.

• Workshops and activities for the whole family, including cyanotyping, printing, tech demos including Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture and ROVs, seaweed skincare, a seaweed touch tank, and more.

• Cooking demos by chefs Maylin Chávez and Woody Cabello-Penn.

• Panel discussions on Innovations in Aquaculture, Biodiversity on the North Coast and throughout the state, Seaweed at the Intersection of Advocacy and Economics, and an Indigenous People’s Forum.

• Scientists and industry professionals will present short talks, educational booths and a poster session.

• Boat tours on the Madaket, including a visit to Humboldt Bay ProvidenSea Farm and an ROV deployment to check on the lines. Space is limited and a small ticket fee applies.

• Tours of the research vessel Coral Sea.

• Entertainment including live music and a mermaid.

• Food trucks and a beer garden, both featuring innovative uses of seaweed.

Enjoy live music and mermaids all day. Go“dock-pooling” around the marina with a marine biologist guide and take a tour inside the Coral Sea research vessel and too many more fun things to mention!

6pm - 9pm: The Sustainable Seafoods Soirée, in collaboration with Fed by Blue, and PBS, will feature a special screening and panel discussion about "Hope in the Water" a docu-series highlighting how innovations on the water could not only feed us but help save our threatened seas and fresh waterways. This ticketed event includes sustainable seafood small bites and drinks. Seafood includes all foods from the water — fish, shellfish, and sea vegetables -- and provide some of the most nutritious and planet-friendly food options. This will be followed by a discussion with panelists from the series and blue foods industry with an opportunity to taste sustainably produced seafood and drinks. This ticketed event includes sustainable seafood small bites and drinks.  

Vendors & Exhibitors

1. AltaSeads Conservancy - Information about the importance of kelp forests, and about the conservancy’s seedbanking work.

2. Naturespirit Herbs - Information about their line of wild-harvested sea vegetables, seaweed powders and capsules, wildcrafted herbs, medicinal mushrooms and herbal extract formulas.

3. Kelpful - Dry seaweed broth mixes and seasonings, plus information about their educational seaweed experiences in Morro Bay and Cayucos.

4. Amy Ellis Taylor Stained Glass - Original stained glass designs showing the artist’s lifelong connection with the beaches, kelp and abalone of the Northern California coast.

5. Tidal Treasures - Seaweed pressings, cyanotypes and textiles.

6. Wild West Seaweed Press - Hardwood mounted seaweed pressings and sun-dyed kelp apparel, using sustainably gathered seaweeds.

7. Black Mountain Beauty - Skin and hair care products made with Pacific Kelp oil, in plastic-free packaging.

8. Bery Birdy - Humboldt made pottery, jewelry and clothing inspired by the beautiful North Coast.

9. Julia Beery - Fine art prints of nudibranchs.

10. Color Wheel Art Studio - Functional ceramics with intricate ocean-inspired designs, including teabowls, bonsai planters, bud vases and mugs.

11. Sunken Seaweed - Their mission is to increase marine biodiversity, reverse climate change effects, and promote a new, healthy relationship between people and seafood. 

12. Annie Walker Fine Art - Original paintings and prints inspired by seaweeds and ocean wonders.

13. College of the Redwoods Aquaculture Program - Information about IMTA (Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture), including an interactive demonstration and program educational material.

14. Lemongello Ceramics - Handcrafted ceramic ware with seaweed embellishments.

15. Blue Robotics - California company that designs and manufactures marine robotics components and vehicles.

16. Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab & Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute - Based at Cal Poly Humboldt, offering knowledge sharing, community engagement and restoration/revitalization of indigenous food practices.

17. Suicide and Violence Protection Program - Humboldt County Public Health will offer education, outreach and resources for the community around mental health, self care and community care issues.

18. Loryn White Pottery - Handmade functional pottery and decorative ceramic wall hangings.

19. The Crafty Naturalist - Handmade sustainable products including seaweed presses, seaweed jewelry and art, celebrating the beauty of nature.

20. Loving Blind Productions & Above-Below - Books, notecards, scarves and shower curtains, plus promotion for the webstory “The Mysterious World of Bull Kelp”.

21. Coastal Haze Designs - Local ocean and beach themed stickers, enamel pins, art prints and magnets featuring hand-drawn art by Alexa Stefanaleis.

22. Sequoia Siren - Scientifically accurate representations of local fauna, flora, fungi and folklore through acrylic jewelry, with an emphasis on the diversity of Humboldt’s coast.

23. Salmonberry Prints - Hand printed items inspired by the Humboldt Coast.

24. Tide Pool Herbs - Wild-harvested seaweed based products including vinegars and spices.

25. American Fisheries Society CalNeva Humboldt Bay Sub Section - Information about the American Fisheries Society and projects of the local chapter, based at CalPoly Humboldt.

26. Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation, Natural Resources Dept - Information about the Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation Marine Division's Kelp Guardians Project, Tribal Marine Stewards Network and other marine monitoring efforts.

27. World Wildlife Fund - Information about the WWF and their marine programs.

Food Vendors

Pupuseria San Miguel - Offering the national dish of El Salvador - pupusas and pastelitos, including vegetarian and seaweed options.
Humboldt Bay Burgers - Offering a wide variety of burgers, fries and sandwiches, for all tastes.