Weed all about it
Catherine Murphy faces slippery rocks, bracing sea air and crashing waves as she learns to forage for seaweed in Co Mayo
During the famine, our West of Ireland ancestors depended on seaweed to stay alive, harvesting shore food for coveted minerals and vitamins.
Yet Ireland’s tradition of seaweed harvesting is a long and rich one, with hundreds of varieties used for everything from fertiliser and animal feed to stuffing mattresses and thatching roofs.
Seaweed harvesting is now a contentious and worrying issue ...
