Marine Foraging Weekend - Kelp, Seaweed, Molluscs & Crustaceans

Marine foraging weekend (5/6th April)

Kelp, Seaweed, Molluscs & Crustaceans

Open for bookings 🌱 Booking Deadline: 30.03.2025

Also bookable without overnight stay for 5000 NOK.

If you have access to a fjord or sea, you have access to an incredible food source! Join an intensive and inspiring weekend course in beautiful Stadsbygd (Indre Fosen), where you will learn everything you need to incorporate seaweed, kelp, and other marine animals into your diet!

This in-depth course is designed to teach you about the different types of seaweed and kelp, and how to harvest, store, and use them culinarily.

Course Objectives:

Theory about seaweed and kelp

• Learn about different species of kelp and seaweed and their habitats - you will get written theory to take home.

Hands-on coastal foraging

• See, feel, and taste different species we find along the shore!

Cooking with marine forage

• Once we have foraged a variety of species, we will move on to a remote farm in the hills where you will learn how to create simple dishes (suitable for both everyday and slightly finer occasions) - all the recipes will be provided for you to take home.

  
  

Process kelp and seaweed

• You will learn how to refine seaweed (a delicate resource) to use it year-round. There will be finished products you can bring home with you.

Course info:

This course will provide everything you need to start using Norway’s marine resources in your day-to-day life.

We combine theory and practical exercises, so you go home with basic knowledge you can fall back on in your foraging future.

If you want to read more about the Patrick (the main teacher) you can find it here.

Equipment:

If you have, we ask you to bring the following from home:

Needed:

• Waders / Rubber boots (or other shoes that can get wet and dirty)

• Scissors

• Weather-adapted clothing

• For the processing, you will need min. 2 airtight containers with a large opening (e.g. clean old jam jars).

  
  

Optional:

• Neoprene / Kitchen gloves (so your fingers don't get cold and wet while foraging)

• Mesh bag / Basket with holes

• Lunch bag / Lunch box (waterproof – for bringing fresh seaweed and kelp home)

If you want to go a little further out and down, you can also bring a freediving suit if you have

Typical course day:

7:45 - 8:15 Breakfast

8:30 - 11:30 Course content

11:30 - 13:00 Joint lunch (food preparation by the group and teacher)

13:00 - 16:00 Course content

17:00 Joint dinner (food preparation by the group and teacher)

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included on Saturday. You will have Breakfast and Lunch on Sunday:)

Location:

The course participants will stay together in the farm Bed&Breakfast of Heggli Gård.

Heggli Gård is a simple but authentic stay, right in the mountains. The rooms cover all necessities but are not luxurious :)

Arrival:

By car:

Enter the address Helsetveien 140, Stadsbygd in Google Maps/GPS, and you will find the course location! If you are coming from the Trondheim side of the fjord, you must factor in a ferry trip with the Flakk-Rørvik connection.

By plane:

From Trondheim airport (TRD, Værnes) take the train or airport bus to the central station. Walk over to the speedboat terminal and take the boat to Vanvikan. We can pick you up at the speedboat terminal.

In case of any unclarities, use the chat function :)

Language:

The course language will be Norwegian but both Teachers speak Norwegian as well as English. Individual questions can always be answered in your preferred language.

Booking:

! To book your spot you will have to pay a 2500 NOK deposit. The rest will have to be paid 2 weeks before the beginning of the course. If the minimum requirement of 6 participants isn't met, we will refund the deposit :)

You can book the course without an overnight stay as well. The price without bed and breakfast (including lunch and dinner) is 5000 NOK, you can choose it at the checkout.