The Harvesting Process
From the volcanic basin of Upper Klamath Lake to your kitchen
Wild AFA is fragile. The same biological compounds that make it valuable — pigments, peptides, enzymes — degrade within minutes if exposed to heat. Our chilled-harvest chain was engineered for one purpose: capture the bloom at peak biological activity and deliver it to capsule with every microgram of bioactive compound preserved.
Pristine alpine ecosystem above urban runoff
Powering massive photosynthetic bloom each summer
Annual biomass — we harvest less than 1%
Chilled within minutes, frozen same day
Upper Klamath Lake is not an accident.
When Mount Mazama collapsed seven thousand years ago, it left behind one of the most mineral-rich lake beds on Earth. Volcanic sediment delivers continual mineralization — silica, magnesium, manganese, iron, trace minerals — through a basin protected by mountains and sustained by 300 days of summer sun. AFA evolved here. It thrives here in a density unmatched anywhere else on the planet.
Cold is the entire technology.
Most algae companies harvest by warm sun-drying — fast, cheap, and biologically destructive. We pump the bloom from the lake at peak summer density, chill it within minutes, frozen-store at the lakeside facility, then transport under cold chain. Every step is timed against the compound half-lives we are protecting. The result is a biomass that retains its enzyme activity, peptide structure, and chlorophyll integrity all the way to capsule.
We test what we harvest.
Every batch is third-party tested for microcystins, heavy metals, microbial purity, and bioactive marker concentration before it ever reaches a capsule. The lake itself is monitored by Oregon state and federal agencies year-round. We publish the certificates of analysis because the science only matters if it is verifiable.
