Seaweed Saturday 2025
April 26 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Free
Celebrate seaweed with friends, family, and farmers! This day-long event will offer public seaweed demos, talks, art, interactive tables, and a marketplace. Free, for all ages.
Join us Saturday, April 26th 2025, from 11am to 4pm for Seaweed Saturday at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland. Activities at Seaweed Saturday will highlight seaweed in art, food, and science, featuring dozens of local seaweed farms, businesses, and organizations.
Maine Sea Grant will offer hands-on seaweed identification workshops and demos. Local artists will exhibit their seaweed-inspired works. In the marketplace, seaweed farms and businesses will showcase their seaweed products to taste or take home.
NEW this year, we’ll have expert talks and panel discussions on kelp aquaculture, science, product development and more in GMRI’s beautiful Cohen Center. Online sign-up form for each session coming soon!
Interested in exhibiting or vending at the event? Express your interest or register you business at seaweedweek.org/seaweed-saturday/