BOOK
Seaweed Nature’s Secret to Balancing Your Metabolism, Fighting Disease, and Revitalizing Body & Soul
by Valerie Gennari Cooksley, RN
“features recipes for delicious meals; do-it-yourself spa treatments and topical treatments for specific ills; advice on finding, storing, and using seaweed; and much more.”
Dakini Tidal Wilds is listed on page 188 of the book Seaweed under Resources from the Deep, Sea Vegetables (Reputable, ethical harvesters of natural seaweed)
For more info and to order Seaweed go to Flora Medica Natural Health Books
TV INTERVIEW
NEWDAY VI, June 15, 2005
Amanda Swinimer of Dakini Tidal Wilds interviewed by Stephanie Beaumont in Victoria B.C.
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RADIO INTERVIEWS
Village 900 Radio, October 2009
Amanda Swinimer of Dakini Tidal Wilds; and Ed Sum & Jeff Baldry of Camosun Radio Exchange
LOCAL FOOD GUIDES /NEWSLETTERS
DTW is listed in the following food guides:
Community Farm Store Resilience Newsletter 2012
Sooke Food Chi, Food & Farm Guide 2011
West Shore and Sooke Go Local Pocket Guide
Buy BC Wild & BC Farmers Market 2009
COPYRIGHT DAKINI TIDAL WILDS 2011
Dakini Tidal Wilds Vancouver Island B.C. Canada 250.818.4633 dakinitidalwilds@yahoo.com
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CBC Radio, On the Island, June 2006
Amanda Swinimer of Dakini Tidal Wilds
NEWS ARTICLES
Eat Magazine
March/April, 2012 by Rebecca Baugniet
“Drying seaweed, [Amanda Swinimer] explains, is a bit of an art form.”
The Georgia Straight
September 29, 2011 by Pieta Woolley
“Starting from the west coast of Vancouver Island, the marine biologist plans to swim about 300 metres into the nippy Pacific and fill her net bags with wiggly bull kelp.”
Rural Observer May 2011
by Christine Hopkins and
Amanda Swinimer
“As little as 5g/day of kelp provides the body with protection against heavy metals, radiation and other environmental toxins...”
Mapleline Magazine August 25, 2010
by Christine Hopkins
Of Seaweeds & Seashores: exploring health benefits
“In my own community, I discovered my closest neighbour, Amanda Swinimer, Marine Biologist (and mermaid!), who dives to harvest the ‘big browns’ (Alaria and Bull Kelp) to sell dried and packaged for her business, Dakini Tidal Wilds!”
San Francisco Chronicle April 11, 2010
by Margo Pfeiff
Bounty from an Octopus’ Garden
On the Globe 2009 by Andrew Princz
The entrepreneurial women of Canada's West Coast seaweed culture
“Amanda is one of the self-styled seaweed ladies of Sooke. The ocean is her garden.”
“For Amanda seaweed are both a passion and her livelihood.”
Super, Natural British Columbia Canada
“Bright-green sea lettuce, leathery dulce, iridaea (aka "rainbow seaweed"), rockweed and alaria (which pairs beautifully with wild salmon) are among the catches of the day...”