Ny høst af spiselig Vingetang i nord Californien ♥

Jeg har aldrig nogensinde sét

et så fantastisk billede af

Vingetang, der er hængt

til tørre i solen på

tørrestativer.

Det er helt frisk

blevet délt med mig

af mine meget gode venner

i det nordlige Californien,

John & Barbara Lewallen

fra

Mendocino Sea Vegetable Company

It's a truely SeaweedGate To SeaweedHeaven

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Speach given by Grandfather Ocean to Seaweedlovers

Grandfather Ocean is John Lewallen, The Founder of Mendocino Sea Vegetable Company seaweed.net
I let him speak on his own since I think it is a wonderful speach ♥♥♥:

 

Seaweed Speaks

©2013 by John Lewallen

            Wild seaweed loves people. Timeless, infinitely powerful, shimmering, undulating in the phantasmagoric, psychedelic intertidal, wild seaweed whispers to its human lovers:

            Come hither! You are my beloved children. My body is your body. My elements are your elements.  You are seas and oceans walking on land!          

            Now I summon the seaweed people to come unto me in awe, with love and respect. Know me as sacred food, healing nourishment to help you live in delight through the fear-driven madness of radioactive warfare and petrochemical pollution.

            Come in the spring and summer days, when the kiss of abundant sunshine awakens my rapid, prolific blade growth. Come on the days and hours around new moons and full moons, when Sun, Earth and Moon hold hands; when, sighing, the oceans recede in deep low tides, revealing the iridescent, multi-colored, shape-shifting, ecstatic orgy of my season of reproduction.

            My sporing bodies, my blades of egg and sperm, I offer freely and abundantly to you as eternally regenerating food. Eat me fresh from the rocks and know the full power of my subtle tastes, the full surge of ocean elements delighting your body. Use your sacred hands to carefully trim my blades in their prime, just before we dissolve in an orgasm, making a frothy, milky foam of spores, sperm and eggs in the nearshore ocean waters. Rapidly and completely dry my delectable blades in the sunlight which gives all life, with reverential love and care, store me cool, dark and dry, and I will feed you essential nutrients for many winters.

            Treat me with love, respect, and generosity, and know the mystical power of harvesting within the natural flow. Slash me greedily and poison me, and know the Hell on Earth which comes from scorning and attacking your sacred friends and allies, the pandemic disease arising from polluting the source of your life.

            Do not fear destroying me. You cannot know the countless eons I have lived. I ate the flesh and bones of the dinosaurs, just as I will eat the ashes and remains of your bodies when your time comes. To me, ten thousand years is but a fleeting instant.

            If you chop me up, I will proliferate vegetatively and spread far and wide. Pollute the seas, and I will gather and absorb pollutants along with all other elements dissolved in ocean water. With my holdfasts I cling to offshore oil rigs and all other structures in the ocean, making them my home.  I ride the hulls of ships, invading new habitats worldwide.

            You know both love and fear. I am pure love, the love that drives and suffuses all creation. What makes some of you think you have a unique and separate identity, as if each bullwhip kelp had a separate soul?

            I love your songs and offerings of your personal beauty made at sea’s edge before you take my life-giving offerings to you. You are here to create and share your unique beauty.

            Nurture all humanity, and you will nurture yourselves. Continue your wars and worship of personal greed, and your elaborate global electronic civilization will collapse, driving survivors back to the timeless, indestructible intertidal zone for food.

            Devotees of seaweed, hear our call to bring our nutritious, healing powers to all humanity! You may come to realize that seaweed loves people unconditionally and infinitely. Seaweed loves all you people more than you love yourselves! 

Gæster fra Californien til Tanghøst?

De første år vi her i huset havde tang med i maden, købte jeg stort ind via internettet fra Californien:
http://www.seaweed.net/
Det udviklede sig til et hjerteligt venskab med John og Barbara Stephens Lewallen.
(På billedet t.h. ses John til deres 30 års jubilæum på stranden til Pacific Ocean)
To af de største entreprenører på feltet i vesten, at høste spiselige tangarter.
Jeg skulle have besøgt dem i 5 uger i maj/juni 2010 for at lære af dem, hvordan man gør ting
som tanghøster. Pga. vulkanudbruddet på Island blev det ingenting til.
Inspireret af deres beretninger om hvordan man griber det an, gik jeg selv igang
på egen hånd med det danske, gammelkendte tang.
Nu har jeg etableret mit eget firma på feltet: Nordisk Tang.
Der skal høstes stort ved Djurslands Kattegatkyster i ugerne 18 og 19.

Jeg har inviteret John & Barbara til at deltage, siden det ligger dem meget på hjerte,
traditionen for tanghøst til menneskelig konsum breder sig i vesten.
Her er hvad jeg skrev:

Hi Barbara and John,

I've established the company Nordic Seaweed
and have got an autorization from our Government to harvest, proces an sell the danish seaweeds.
Week 18 and 19 I will harvest as much as I can.
I've rented a summerhouse at the buttom of the nose of Jutland.
Harvesting places is from Knebel in south up to north for Fornæs.
There we have excellent seaweed.
Should you want to come and take part a few days
you can have a double bed in the summerhouse.
There is an airport close to the place.
Many other folks will be coming.

Love, Thorkil

Barbara svarede mig som følger:

Dear Thorkil

CONGRATULATIONS sweet friend.
What month is week 18 and 19 when you will harvest.
it would so wonderful to come and be there.  What an opportunity.
we are with fishermen and womyn  this weekend in a place called Shelter
Cove in northern, CA.  We are talking about fishing rights that have been
taken away from these men and womyn and their family.
we are hoping to help them get into seaweed.
today our friend and his son went out and collected crabs from their
traps.  It looks like it was a good day for them.
we stayed here at their home and our friend Sue had a cheese and tea party
and invited the local folks over to meet us and talk over issues.  It has
been very nurturing being here.
on Thursday night we went to a congressional debate on the other side of
the mountain, then our friends hosted us here at their home and have been
the best to us....treating us like celebrity.
thank you for letting us know what you are doing.
love to you,   barbara   (john is napping)

Jeg har så skrevet til hende:

Dear Barbara

Thanks a lot dear friend.
I'm dancing with joy reading your sweet letter.
So nice to read what you are doing inspirering
those folks who have lost their autorization
to go for fishes for a living.
Them harvesting seaweed like you can learn
them anything about, dry it, pack it, sell it at the internet....
Waow!!!! Sad story being turned in to a
new fairy tale of income :-)

I will be in the summerhouse from april the 28.
until may the 12.
The airport close to is Aarhus Lufthavn = Aarhus airport.
You will only have to pay for your aeroplanetickets.
I'll come and pick you up and You will be living in the
house as my guests of honor.
Having you with me some of the time of my first
large harvest of danish seaweed will be the very best
stunt for this new business of mine ;-)

Love to you and John,
Thorkil.

Så må vi se hvad det bliver til :-)
Jeg krydser fingre for at de kommer!!!