For most of Connecticut’s agriculture sector, the harvest has already concluded by this time of year. But for a new crop of farmers growing sugar kelp in the waters of the Long Island Sound, planting ...

Kelp and oysters are growing in farms throughout southern Southeast Alaska, yet there’s a limited supply of seeds to grow those farms. But a small-scale commercial seed hatchery in Ketchikan could ...

One of the biggest challenges for Connecticut's few kelp farmers is a lack of hands-on training in nursery cultivation.

A new batch of sugar kelp is growing, suspended on hemp lines hanging a few feet below the surface of the water along Oyster Bay Harbor at Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park. As it grows over the winter ...

Three Cape Cod businessmen are finding out what kelp — seaweed to its friends — can do for them. Richard Curtiss, Carl Douglass, and Jamie Bassett hope a 50-acre "plot" of ocean off Harding Beach in ...

Like most aquatic vegetation, kelp is being negatively impacted by climate change. Warming ocean temperatures have led to shorter growing and harvesting seasons, including for sugar kelp, one of the ...

Beer’d Run Club for the Groton Open Space Association at Beer’d Brewing – The Silo on the Groton Patch calendar ...

New environmental DNA (eDNA) tools can accurately and inexpensively quantify kelp-derived biomass in sediments below commercial kelp farms, according to research published in PLOS One. The new study, ...

KITTERY, Maine — Summertime is in the rearview mirror, but one R.W. Traip Academy student’s invention shines a light on how beachgoers can protect the water and the environment during the dog days of ...

Seaweed and ceviche poke bowls. Kelp burgers. Sugar kelp vodka cocktails. Seaweed-infused beers and teas. Seaweed-inspired bread, cheese, chocolate and ice cream. Those are some of the products ...