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๐ŸŒฟ ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜ƒ๐˜€. ๐—ž๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฝโ€”๐—›๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒโ€™๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐——๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ

๐ŸŒŠ Ever wonder if kelp and seaweed are the same thing?

๐ŸŒณ Think of it like this: all kelp is seaweed, but not all seaweed is kelpโ€”just like all pines are trees, but not all trees are pines.

๐Ÿงฌ โ€œSeaweedโ€ is the broad category (scientifically: macroalgae), which includes red, green, and brown species.

๐ŸŒพ Kelp is just one subsetโ€”specifically, the large brown seaweed Cascadia Seaweed farms on the BC coast.

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Mark Erjavec asks Michael Williamson, CEO of Cascadia Seaweed, to break it down in simple terms.