Our Story
How it all began...
Our Cornish coastline is so wonderfully pristine and it is also at the heart of all our family memories; countless days out on the water, playing on the beaches, walking along the stretches of coastal paths and enjoying the bountiful, local marine life. It is purely wonderful!
Unfortunately, it is becoming increasingly difficult to escape the fact that our world is facing a global climate crisis and the solutions are not coming fast enough. For our family and community there are many worries - would our home stay like this for our children and our children's children? And how could we raise our children, showing them that there is a way to tackle climate change, protect our local environment and not make our oceans worse in the process?
Creating Little Green Seaweed
As a family, we knew we wanted to make a difference with the oceans and the marine life that frequented our shores. Fauna including many fish species, rays, sharks, jellyfish, sea birds and megafauna including tuna, walruses, seals, porpoises, dolphins, orca and humpbacks like us, call Cornwall home.
The oceans are carbon sinks. They are able to uptake carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and dissolve it into organic carbon and oxygen. How can our oceans do this? It is the work of the plants of the ocean; plankton and algae, including seaweeds. Some are microscopic in size, others reach heights taller than us and they all are able to use carbon dioxide and return oxygen to the water for other flora and fauna to use.
Algae and seaweeds can not only dissolve CO2 and give oxygen they have many other organic uses. They have a unique ability to be able to absorb heavy metals and sewage pollution. They are packed with nutrients, minerals and trace elements that plants and succulents thrive from. They provide organic material for the soil cycle to process naturally without the use of any chemical involvement. They have also been used throughout Cornish history to supply fertiliser to the agricultural land.
Following a huge amount of time researching, discovering and reaching out to people already working with marine flora, specifically seaweed, we began to put some ideas together that could be the start of a small family business that provides solutions to environmental problems within our community.
Could we do it? Could we wild harvest seaweed by hand, using sustainable processes and make a difference in our Cornish corner of the world?
We decided to give it a try...we called upon local, regional and national experts. Spoke to academics and industry specialists. Read and completed countless forms, documents, applications and licenses.
And, just like that...Little Green Seaweed was born.
We hope to make a difference, bring jobs to our community, help keep our ocean environment and ecosystems thriving whilst being carbon neutral.
We welcome you to join us and help us...invest with us, work with us, research with us, sell our products, buy our products or simply share and follow what we do.
Life is short, let's leave the world a better place than when we entered it.
Meet Our Family And Crew
Meet the team
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Jacqueline James
Founder & CEO
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Daniel Harbutt
Tech Lead
