Our founder, Robert Morse, saw a need for more natural products in crop and livestock production. Lucky for him the answer was quite literally in his backyard.

Robert began hand harvesting Rockweed from local seaweed beds in Boothbay Harbor, Maine; the same wild seaweed beds we harvest from over 50 years later.

Robert was an early pioneer in the seaweed biologicals market, joining a consortium of like-minded visionaries to demonstrate the benefits of liquid seaweed extracts on crop production. This culminated in the registration of the product Nitrozyme with the EPA in 1981, as a growth stimulant on plants. Nitrozyme’s legacy lives on in North American Kelp’s lineup of seaweed-based biostimulants and fertilizers for agronomic and horticultural use.

After all this time we still hold true to the principles set forth on Maine’s rocky coastline all those years ago. We may be a little larger in scale and scope now, but we still make seaweed products the way nature intended them; to nurture and grow from the ground up.