AKUA is a modern food brand on a mission to create food the right way: healthy, delicious, plant-based, and with a positive impact on the planet.
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For All Of Our Yoga Lovers: Happy International Yoga Day! 🧘♀️🙏🏼💕🧘🏼♂️
almost 8 years ago
– Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 05:43:39 PM
What's bendy, awesome, and healthy for you? Kelp Jerky! And also... these amazing, high-tech yoga pants from our friends at Nadi X, which are now exclusively LIVE on Kickstarter.
These new vibrating, take-with-you-anywhere pants are the future of at-home yoga practice with woven-in technology. It's like the Peloton Bike of Yoga Pants.
How does it all work? Nadi X provides gentle vibrations during your yoga to guide you where to focus, paired with audio instructions in the app. For example, at the end of the pose the app will indicate if you made it into the pose or if you need to glance back at the instructions.
Special Delivery: AKUA's "The Seaweed Diaries" Digital Cookbook 🌿🌊
almost 8 years ago
– Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 07:19:26 PM
Today, we're delivering "The Seaweed Diaries" - a collection of seagreen-infused stories and recipes by AKUA
At AKUA, we are ocean lovers who believe in creating food in the right way - positively delicious with a positive impact on the planet.
The Seaweed Diaries is our first recipe book and was made for the 1,324 Kickstarter backers who helped support AKUA and our first product, Kelp Jerky this year.
This digital book is a collection of seaweed knowledge along with personal stories and recipes from our favorite chefs, who love cooking with edible seagreens because of the many health benefits and fascinating flavors. There is a section at the end, which lists great resources on where to find and buy the seaweeds mentioned in the book.
Click on the link below to download your copy of AKUA's "The Seaweed Diaries" Digital Cookbook. There is a Web version for reading on your computer, phone, or tablet and a Print version for printing in the highest resolution (n.b. it is a large, 40GB file).
If you have any questions while you're reading through your new cookbook, join our Kelp Club community on Facebook and get kelp support!
BackerKit surveys are incoming!
almost 8 years ago
– Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:29:47 PM
We're getting ready to collect your shipping info!
We're sending surveys next week. Please be on the lookout!
Next week, you’ll receive an email from us with a special link to a survey from our friends at BackerKit. It’s important to respond to your survey as quickly as you can since we need your information to fulfill your yummy rewards.
Note that you don’t need to create a BackerKit account to fill out your survey. When you receive the email with the survey, just click the survey link to respond. Answer the questions about your reward preferences, provide shipping information, and purchase any add-on items if you like. You don’t have access to this survey link yet, but it will be available soon via email!
After you respond to your survey, you can go back later and change your responses at any time before we close the surveys and get our final counts... so we can send you delicious Kelp Jerky this summer!
If you need to review your information or pledge status, you can return to your survey by clicking the link in your survey email or requesting your survey link under "Lost your survey?" on our project page at https://kelp-jerky.backerkit.com.
If you used your Facebook credentials to log in to your Kickstarter account, the BackerKit survey is sent to the email address you use for your Facebook account. If you have another email address that you prefer to use, please contact support at https://kelp-jerky.backerkit.com/faq.
You're one step closer to receiving your Kelp Jerky!
With love,
TEAM AKUA
Meet Morgan and "Why Kelp Farming is Pretty Much the Coolest"
almost 8 years ago
– Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:53:49 PM
Our ocean farmed kelp is grown by farmers in Maine like our co-founder Morgan-Lea Fogg! We're just days away from kelp harvesting, which means that every day, our farmers are checking water temperatures and checking on their kelp crops to make sure they're as long and as healthy as possible before they're harvested.
Morgan-Lea Fogg
Kelp is a "zero input crop", which means that it:
Requires no fresh water
Requires no dry land
Fertilizer/feed free
Kelp also sequesters 5x carbon from water than land based plants do from the air
while also reinvigorating shoreline ecosystems for 100s of species! So yeah, kelp farming is pretty much the coolest.
We sat down with our co-founder and kelp farmer Morgan-Lea for a few minutes to ask her about kelp farming.
Why did you get into Kelp Farming?
I had started to learn about seaweeds and sustainable ocean farming just after I read a book called Comfortably Unaware by Richard Oppenlander that explains how what we choose to eat is not only killing us, but the planet. I remember getting quite emotional while reading the shocking facts Oppenlander gives about how we are destroying the Amazon forests for agriculture, and how we are running out of clean, fresh water. I completed the book, and immediately changed my personal habits around the food I consumed. I had always been a fairly healthy eater, but I was becoming a conscious eater. When I realized I could farm kelp by going back home to Maine where I had grown up and provide people and the planet with a healthy, renewable sources of food, fertilizers, animals feeds, biomaterials and biofuels, I was over the moon excited to dive in.
What do you love about Kelp Farming?
Maybe I shouldn’t say this out loud, but I do think the unpredictability of ocean farming is quite exciting. With any kind of farming, so much is left up to nature. Sometimes, I’m cursing the tide and the weather because it’s making our lives that much harder, but I also think that’s where it gets a little fun. I’ve also really enjoyed learning about our oceans - what they are capable of and how things work together. As a farmer, you’re not just learning and understanding your crop, but you have to have a great understanding of nature and the planet as a whole it is all connected after all. Lastly, I’ll say there is a great sense of pride that comes from growing and nurturing a small seed or spore into a full blown plant that can then be used to feed and nurture thousands and potentially millions of people.
How do you see the future of kelp farming?
I hope that as humans, we get a better understanding of all farming and how we use the resources we have available to us. As far as kelp and ocean farming, I hope that it continues to pick up momentum, especially here in the US. I hope people continue to get involved by either eating more seaweed, educating people about the benefits of kelp farming, or by developing more creative ways to use seaweeds. I often envision a day when Jake (my fiance and partner at Nautical Farms) and I can hop into our (future) mobile home and road trip along our coastlines to visit hundreds of ocean farming friends and their farms.
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THANK YOU! WE DID IT! WE LOVE YOU!
almost 8 years ago
– Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 09:50:27 PM
Successful Kickstarter campaign, check. Thank you to the 1,324 backers who pledged $71,141 to help bring Kelp Jerky to life this year.
Next, we are heading to Maine this spring to harvest and process all of our yummy KELP straight from our partners like Morgan's Nautical Farms. This kelp will be brought down to Brooklyn, where we manufacturer Kelp Jerky with thousands of pounds of mushrooms from the Northeast. We plan to be shipping Kelp Jerky to you starting in July, making this "The Summer of Kelp Jerky." We'll be sending you loads of more updates along the way!
If you have friends or family who missed out, they still have options. Tell them to click the "Pre-Order" button on our campaign link. n.b. All Kickstarter backers received lower pricing and will receive their Kelp Jerky orders first!
