A 1-acre kelp farm in the Moriches Bay can remove as much nitrogen as 20 advanced septic systems, Gobler said. Kelp farming has been growing in the U.S. in recent years. In 2021, New York Gov.

Jon McGee of New England Sea Farms in Guilford said he harvested roughly 10,000 pounds of sugar kelp on his farm last spring, and he expects to grow roughly five times that volume this year.

The problem, though, is that there’s not enough of it. Enter kelp farming. China currently leads the industry, having produced more than seven million metric tons in 2015, says University of ...

GlobalSeaweedProject_Denmark_Hjarnø+seaweed+farm_4sea11.jpg Hundreds of people attended Seaweed Saturday at the Gulf of Maine ...

The festival is timed to coincide with Maine’s spring kelp harvest. “Maine leads the nation in seaweed farming,” said Jaclyn Robidoux, a seaweed extension specialist with the University ...

Kelp Crofters, based on the Isle of Skye, sustainably farms, harvests and processes farmed kelp. The company has now revealed the results of ...

In other countries, researchers have already been looking into kelp as a biofuel source for the last few years. However, the researchers at Wrigley and Marine BioEnergy have come up with an innovative ...

Researchers are growing the food of the future in this laboratory: meat that uses kelp as an alternative to animal-based ingredients.

[Frenchman Bay] is not an appropriate place to site industrial fish farms, especially as a speculative effort for people from other countries.” -Sarah Redmond, owner of Springtide Seaweed, the first ...

A new project is exploring how seaweed-based biostimulants can enhance soil health and boost nutrient efficiency in crops.

Chef Andrew Wilkinson of North Coast Seafoods hands out samples of kelp "meatballs" at an Introduction to Global Public Health class. (Photos by Lee Pellegrini) A new nutritious, sustainable, ...