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Seaweed foraging and wild cooking on the Fife coast, 20 minutes from St Andrews. Bookable experiences built for operators and their guests.

Who we are. East Neuk Seaweed is a small, owner-led food and foraging business in the East Neuk of Fife. Since 2019 founder Jayson Byles (forager, trained chef and former commercial seaweed-harvest manager) has taken guests onto the shore at low tide to harvest seaweed and eat it cooked over fire on the beach. For the trade we run three bookable experiences: a four-hour hero day, a 90-minute coach-friendly taster and an indoor seaweed-and-whisky evening that runs year-round. Every session is led by Jayson personally from our base at the Bowhouse food hub in St Monans.

We work with tour operators, destination management companies, incoming agents and accommodation partners who want to offer their guests something genuinely of this coast: hands-on foraging and wild cooking with the guide National Geographic sent its readers to.

Fife’s visitor economy runs on golf, castles and pretty fishing harbours: wonderful, and everywhere. This is the day that isn’t on anyone else’s itinerary: guests walk out onto a shore that only exists at low tide, harvest it with their own hands, and eat it cooked over fire. It photographs beautifully, it works in most weather, and no one else in the region offers it.

Why partners work with us

  • A distinctive product: seaweed foraging with a former professional chef, featured by National Geographic, The Herald, The Courier and Scottish Field
  • Flexible formats: from 90-minute tasters to full private days; walking distance from the Fife Coastal Path villages
  • Real-time availability: bookings run on FareHarbor, with API/affiliate connectivity for trade partners
  • Consistent delivery: all safety equipment provided, workshops run in all weathers, guest reviews at the top of the scale
  • Credentialled: member of the Association of Foragers; featured by National Geographic, the BBC, The Guardian, The New York Times and Eurowings' WINGS magazine
  • Easy to route: 20 minutes from St Andrews, about 1½ hours from Edinburgh, with the exact shore confirmed by email 48 hours before the event
East Neuk Seaweed is a listed supplier on VisitScotland’s Travel Trade directory. Sessions suit FIT and small groups, with private and themed experiences available, close to St Andrews and within easy reach of Edinburgh Airport.

The products

On the Rocks

4-hour forage & five-course wild tasting menu · FIT or exclusive

CapacityUp to 12 (exclusive)SeasonTide-led

Seaweed Taster

90-minute exclusive taster with curated snacks, tea & coffee

CapacityUp to 40SeasonMost days (tide sets the start time)

Private Groups & Chefs

Bespoke days built around your group, your menu, your tide

CapacityBy arrangementSeasonYear-round

The Coastal Dram Launching soon

Indoor seaweed & whisky tasting experience · 90 minutes

Capacity2–12SeasonYear-round · eveningsSettingIndoors at the Bowhouse or a venue of your choosing

See it through your guests’ eyes

In March 2025 Welcome to Fife brought trade partners along the coast on a FAM trip: East Neuk Seaweed was the shore stop. Two and a half minutes of what a day here looks like inside a wider Fife itinerary.

FAM visits welcome. The best way to sell a day on the shore is to have stood on it. Product managers, agents and guides are welcome to join a session and experience it first-hand, individually or as a team, by arrangement. Tides set our calendar, so send us a few possible dates and we’ll match them to the water.

Good to know

Practical answers for briefing sheets and tour-leader notes. Anything not covered here: one email, answered within 24 hours.

Are dogs allowed?No on workshops: foraging, fire and food don’t mix with dogs. Assistance dogs: ask us.
Do you feed the coach driver?Yes: drivers and tour leaders join and eat free of charge.
Is the tour leader free?Yes: one free leader place per group.
Are there toilets?Yes at the Bowhouse meeting base (from 8am); none on the shore itself.
Is it wheelchair accessible?No on the shore: uneven, slippery, tidal ground. The indoor Coastal Dram is accessible.
Pregnant guests or heart conditions?No on On the Rocks: four hours and ~800 m over slippery rock. The Taster suits most guests with care; anyone with a heart condition should check with their doctor first.
Can children take part?Yes: Taster all ages; On the Rocks 8+; under-16s with a participating adult. Children forage with supervised cutting.
Is guiding English-only?Yes: tour-leader interpretation is welcome and works well.
Does rain cancel a session?No: only unsafe conditions do. The call is ours, by 5pm the day before wherever possible.
If you cancel for safety, do we pay?No: free re-date, swap to the indoor Coastal Dram, or full refund. Your choice.
Can a 49-seat coach get there?Yes: drop, wait and turn at the Bowhouse; the Taster (max 40) is the coach product.
Can you invoice us?Yes: GBP invoicing for trade; FIT settles via FareHarbor.
Can we hold dates provisionally?Yes: 14-day options on exclusive bookings.
Dietary requirements & allergens?Yes: tell us at booking, 7 days’ notice minimum. Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free are catered for, and shellfish can be left out entirely. Every menu is built on wild seaweed, so traces may be present in any dish.
Alcohol-free Coastal Dram?Yes: a full non-alcohol flight is available with 7 days’ notice.
Do two sessions run the same day?Yes: e.g. shore session on the tide, Coastal Dram in the evening.
If a guest is late?We hold 15 minutes: the tide can’t wait longer. Call and we’ll advise.
Is there a backup if Jayson is unavailable?Yes: priority re-date, Coastal Dram swap or full refund; a session is never quietly substituted.
Risk assessments & insurance certificate?Yes: issued to contracted partners as standard. Public liability £1m.
Do you run in winter?Yes: Coastal Dram year-round; shore sessions on selected winter tides.
Photography & filming?Yes: guests freely; commercial shoots and drones by arrangement.
Gift options?Yes: gift vouchers and the Thriving in the Intertidal e-book.
Do guests need their own kit?No: all safety equipment provided; guests bring sturdy footwear and weather-appropriate layers (kit list sent at booking).

Working together

Net rates, commission, allocations and FIT terms are shared directly with bona-fide trade partners. Tell us who you are, the markets you serve and the volumes you are thinking about, and we will send the current trade fact sheet and come back with a tailored pack, including your own FareHarbor booking link and trade code.

Media kitMedia kit Everything you need to feature us in your own brochures, programmes and listings: logos, editorial photography and copy-ready text (9 MB zip). Trade rates aren’t included: request those via the partnership button below.

Prefer to browse before downloading? The full kit (boilerplate, story angles, images, films, workshop one-pagers and logos) is online at eastneukseaweed.com/media-kit.

Contact us about partnership

Notes from the shore

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