Norfolk Seaweed

We've collaborated with Norfolk Seaweed to support their oyster restoration and seaweed biodiversity projects.

Our mission

As part of our Achieving more for nature’s recovery programme, we're working in collaboration with Norfolk Seaweed, a restorative agriculture company that is helping to regenerate marine environments while producing sustainable food and materials.

This collaboration is our sea project, which sits alongside our existing land (Small Woods) and air (Make it Wild) projects.

Working with Norfolk Seaweed allows us to support an organisation that's restoring damaged marine habitats, developing lost skills, and demonstrating how nature-based solutions can deliver long-term environmental benefits.

So far, our investment has contributed to:

The employment of two oyster farmer trainees, Mable and Grace, who contribute to the restoration of the coastline while learning new and "lost" skills with the Norfolk Seaweed team.
The installation of 12 new trestles within an existing oyster bed to rear native oysters to maturity.
Deployment of 40,000 mother reef clay structures to form the UK's largest oyster reef restoration site, aiming to rear four million oysters by the end of the year.
PADI diver training.
Ecosystem restoration.

Norfolk Seaweed

Norfolk Seaweed's biodiversity initiatives focus on three connected strands: an offshore seaweed farm grown for biostimulants, restoration of a native oyster reef and an intertidal oyster bed.

Why seaweed?

Located around two miles offshore, Norfolk Seaweed's farm is grown primarily for use in biostimulants, but its wider environmental benefits are just as significant.

Seaweed requires no artificial inputs: it needs only sunlight, water, and time to grow. Seaweed acts as one of nature’s ‘superpowers’, engineering healthier oceans without the need for intervention or extraction. As it develops, it sequesters carbon, removes excess nutrients from the sea, and improves overall water quality.

Why oysters?

Native oysters play a powerful role in marine recovery. Each oyster filters up to 50 gallons of water a day, improving water clarity and quality, while removing excess nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon. The carbon they absorb becomes part of their shells, helping to lock it away safely.

Restoring oysters revives entire ecosystems, restores water quality, enhances fisheries and helps defends vulnerable coastlines.

The oysters for consumption are carefully sorted and prepared by hand (as you will see Mable and Grace carefully sorting in our video). This work isn't only a sustainable initiative, but it's helping to revive tradition and often "lost skills".

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Recent news

Introducing our next nature recovery partnership with Norfolk Seaweed
- Given that our current projects are based in Shropshire and Yorkshire, near our Birmingham and Leeds offices, we were keen to establish a partnership that would enable colleagues in Norwich and Cambridge to participate in nature recovery initiatives as well.
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