6th Annual California Seaweed Festival

Our festival team wants to share the beauty and diversity of seaweeds on our coasts, how seaweeds enrich coastal environments making seawater cleaner and a better habitat for hundreds of other species. We imagine a California where seaweed is a kitchen staple, a conversation-starter, a career field, and a conservation focus.

The California Seaweed Festival engages families, learners, entrepreneurs, activists, and more in meaningful ways that enact stewardship while electrifying a nascent seaweed industry. We work to bolster the Blue Economy and forge a California populace that is primed for sustainable seaweed use and appreciation.

The California Seaweed Festival is a free, family-friendly event celebrating the seaweed diversity of California! The festival showcases seaweed ecology as well as applications in art, cooking, farming, science, sustainable technology, and conservation. The California Seaweed Festival is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

The festival moves to a different coastal location each year, so, every festival is unique, and carefully crafted to showcase how seaweed and ocean ecology intersect and support the coastal communities.

Every year, we reach out to businesses, educational institutions, government entities, indigenous groups, non-profits, artists, food producers and craftspeople in the community to best showcase the complex relationships between California’s seaweeds, and communities.