Climate HEROINES
‘Seaweed is good for us and our world’
Fiona Houston, 55, is the founder of a sustainable enterprise that harvests and grows seaweed. She lives in Fife with her husband Duncan, their children Adair, 24, and Lydia, 23, and their dog Zack.
Watching the tide come in from my home some years ago, it struck me that in seaweed, nature was offering us an abundant food source we were not using. I knew how nutritionally dense seaweed was and, in 2008, I co-wrote Seaweed and Eat It, a natural history guide and cookbook. I was yet to learn just how much of a role it could play in combatting climate change.
Seaweed is rich in iodine, tyrosine, fibre and all 56 vitamins, minerals and micronutrients essential for human health. It’s thought we evolved our incredible brains thanks to iodine – and seaweed is the best and most concentrated source. The World Health Organisation now recognises that 66% of British women are iodine
