“Kelp farming simultaneously shares characteristics with farming (on land) while also being very different,” Scheer explains. For one thing, Scheer’s kelp seedlings start off in a nursery. Once they ...

Severine von Tscharner Fleming operates a small organic farm on the southeast coast of Maine, where she grows fruit and farms and harvests wild kelp, and is a creator of the Seaweed Commons as well as ...

Commercial kelp farming is limited in New York, however. Luke Eddins paddles through Newtown Creek while checking kelp ahead of harvest season, March 17, 2023. | Hiram Alejandro Durán/THE CITY.

Kelp is on the way: After a pandemic setback, mariculture farming is on the rise — and could help combat climate change. Self-help-kelp. by Clarise Larson; Friday, July 15, 2022 7:47pm ...

Kelp farming across the country, in Alaska, California and the Northeast, is chiefly done in deep water — 20 feet or more, with the kelp supported by nutrients in water and anchored, ...

In contrast to Atlantic Sea Farm’s network of many, small growers, business models that tap fewer, larger farms have been emerging in Alaska, which only began issuing kelp farming permits in 2016. For ...

Bren Smith, who started the regenerative ocean farming company GreenWave, writes in his book Eat Like a Fish that anyone with $20,000 and a boat has enough to start harvesting 10 tons of kelp per ...

Two kelp farms are looking to brave some uncharted water off of Vashon Island. Some believe seaweed aquaculture could help restore critical habitat for shellfish and native seaweed species, ...

Greg Caruso, who is planning to start kelp farming off Branford’s shoreline, said he began working on getting a permit “about a year ago” with Smith’s help.

Interest in kelp farming has been building in Alaska since the state’s first commercial harvest in 2017. Bradford is one of more than 40 aspiring kelp farmers who have since submitted ...

Kelp farming has been around for a long time in many parts of the world, nationally and even in the region, like Maine and Connecticut. Get Rhode Map.