“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 ...

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, ...

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.

NEW YORK — Underwater forests could be the answer to helping to mitigate the environment from the impacts of climate change, experts told ABC News.

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 ...

The first Indigenous-owned kelp farm on the East Coast has expanded its operations with the help of grants that include a recent $75,000 contribution from the Nature Conservancy.

Kelp farms, like Cordova’s own Noble Ocean Farms, are rising up to help build strong local food networks and increase Alaska’s climate resilience. Kelp is considered a superfood.

On Thursday evening, a small, underwater farm in Gowanus celebrated its first harvest. The crop, 20 pounds of dried kelp, was stored in burlap sacks hanging from the rafters of an old, disused barge.

I started out farming mussels in 2010 and very soon after that, we decided to add kelp to the mix. The main reason was that it was a chance to do even more positive environmental good. Kelp is ...

BIDDEFORD, Maine — Founded in 2021, Cold Current Kelp is a women-owned kelp farm and skincare company based in Southern Maine. They make KELPGLOW facial oil with bioactive compounds from sugar ...

Cold Current Kelp co-owner Krista Rosen holds up an example of wild sugar kelp that has grown on the company’s previously planted line in Kittery, Maine, on Dec. 15, 2024. Early on a freezing ...

Long Island kelp farmer Sue Wicks holds a line of kelp in the Moriches Bay. Via ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Underwater forests could be the answer to helping to mitigate the environment from the impacts of ...