I came across a local crafter making merino beanies DYED WITH PURPLE SEA URCHINS (urchins are super invasive and we need to remove them asap for the rest of the animals and kelp) and of course I’m going to get one
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I came across a local crafter making merino beanies DYED WITH PURPLE SEA URCHINS (urchins are super invasive and we need to remove them asap from areas where there’s kelp for the rest of the animals and kelp) and of course I’m going to get one
You can get it at the Sealevel SF holiday bazaar Dec 14-22 or message Seelie Studio
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Sometimes they (with some diving / marine partners) do an urchin party with DJ. You go there and you eat uni and then they take the shells and they turn that into purple dye for fabric.
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If you get a California fishing license it’s basically free uni.
It’s on my list to do but I haven’t done it yet
An interesting video
https://youtu.be/TJRczrNvlNA?si=8Ho_4PadvLbCUUTe -
sanae :vbike: :vbus: (SF)replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte ooh now I want to figure out how to dye with purple sea urchins
I've wanted to dye with something native to the bay area, but I have no room to grow plants to harvest them responsibly
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Adrianna Tanreplied to sanae :vbike: :vbus: (SF) last edited by
@sanae they do a class. Not sure when’s the next one
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Kathleen Jones 🚲 🐋 🖌️⚾️replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte A clarification on the purple urchins: we want to remove them from areas where they are decimating the kelp beds because the starfish (one of their predators) are diminished, but in other areas they are fine. One example is Pillar Point tidepools in Half Moon Bay. There’s no kelp right there. Yet people think they need to pick off the nasty purple urchins. Yes, the urchins can be harvested (with a state fishing license) but they don’t need to be eradicated.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Kathleen Jones 🚲 🐋 🖌️⚾️ last edited by
@Kleen thanks!
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@skinnylatte It's things like this that make sustainability and veganism hard to coincide. And why I will never forgive the Tumblr vegan community for being mad I said it's good actually to hunt invasive species.
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@skinnylatte I very much regret that I never did any fishing while I lived in California, but also it had never occurred to me that sea urchin would be, like, a thing you could just, like, collect and eat
(In the same way that I’m still flabbergasted every time I remember that lemons and limes grow on trees there)
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@kevinriggle there’s a bunch of videos of people just going to the coast with soy sauce and rice. I can’t wait to try it myself
