It is here that we capture sun and sea to grow unique local seaweed and help to reduce the carbon footprint of neighbouring food processors. In the Shoalhaven, large-scale food production systems release CO2, nitrogen, phosphorus and other nutrients.

We capture these and harness their nutritional power for our seaweed farm, returning and keeping them in the food chain, closing the loop in a sustainable industrial ecology system.

⚒️ Land-based Mineral Sourcing: A Costly and Extractive Process

Many trace minerals used in food fortification and supplements are mined, often with substantial environmental and energy costs:

Commonly mined as hematite (Fe₂O₃) or magnetite (Fe₃O₄), then processed into ferrous sulfate or fumarate for supplements. Mining iron ore contributes to habitat destruction and emits significant CO₂.

Typically extracted from dolomite rock or evaporated seawater, but industrial processing (e.g., electrolysis or thermal reduction) is energy-intensive and not circular.

Rare in soils and sourced mostly as a byproduct of copper mining. It’s costly to extract, often imported, and regions like China or the U.S. dominate production.

Often derived from brine pools or oil and gas field effluent, particularly in Chile and Japan. Extraction involves chemical processes and fossil fuel infrastructure.

Heavily mined and associated with toxic tailings and acid mine drainage, often needing chemical chelation to make them bioavailable in food products.

🌊 Seaweed: A Natural, Regenerative Mineral Filter

While most trace minerals in supplements come from mines, our seaweed grows them. No bulldozers, no acid leachate—just sunlight, seawater, and a little bit of magic.

Green seaweed like our Species 84 absorbs a well balanced matrix of trace elements directly from seawater—no mining, no refining, no fossil fuels.

Our seaweed bioconcentrates minerals at safe levels, delivering natural molecular complexes (e.g., sulfated polysaccharides bound to iron or iodine) that are more bioavailable and potentially less irritating to the gut than synthetic forms.

Our roduction is non-extractive: our seaweed farming technology can regenerate nutrients, re-oxygenate the ocean, and leave no tailings, no emissions, no land degradation.