Cascadia Seaweed Holds Kelp Cutting to Celebrate New Office Space
On Saturday, February 29, the team at Cascadia Seaweed welcomed over 40 guests, including representation from all three levels of government, to their new headquarters in Sidney.
After a heartfelt territorial acknowledgement from chairman Bill Collins, managing partner Mike Williamson spoke about Cascadia’s “tremendous progress” and exciting plans for the future. MLA, Adam Olsen spoke of his appreciation for the coastal people who have harvested food from our oceans for generations and expressed gratitude for this new, carbon positive venture.
In true seaweed fashion, Chief Operating Officer, Tony Ethier cut a ribbon of kelp to ceremonially welcome friends, family, investors, politicians and members of the business community to the freshly painted C-Suite 9774 Third Street in Sidney.
From it’s office in Sidney, Cascadia Seaweed has plans to build a business providing a large quantity of high quality seaweed as an ingredient in the human food industry ,as well as the bio packaging and industrial sectors. Currently they have two 1 hectare farms in the water outside Bamfield and are working with the Port Alberni Food Hub as a processing facility.
