In the summer of 2010, I went out to harvest kelp with Larch Hanson, who has been harvesting seaweed for the last 40 and more years up in WayNorth Maine. I’ve been buying seaweed from Larch for the last eleven years, and this spring, he came to Boston to teach a class on Medicinal Uses of Seaweeds. This article features information from that class and describes how seaweed is harvested.