Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

mile rock-walled lagoon used for aquaculture. Enlisting a staff of 16 and an army of volunteers, the organization cultivates the crop in knee-deep water diverted from Heʻeia stream. In 2001, executive director Kanekoa Shultz, a marine biologist and seaweed expert, helped rebuild the adjacent Paepae o Heʻeia fishpond.

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Acre Plantation Cultivation Crop 120

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

The cattle, which were artificially inseminated by students in the spring, will eventually be harvested at a USDA plant and incorporated into the fine dining menu at the college’s student-run campus restaurant, Capstone Kitchen. Over time, the administrators hope to expand with aquaculture, waste management, raised-bed gardening and more.

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Food Farming Farming Agroecology 98

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

A quick taste test proves it true: Their crop is ready to harvest. Hailing from a commercial lobstering family in Maine, Patryn sees cultivating this marine crop as a lifeline for a community threatened by fishing’s uncertain future. This marks Patryn’s sixth year as a seaweed farmer, but he’s been working on the water for much longer.

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Cultivation Harvest Harvesting Harvester 85

Civil Eats

JULY 31, 2024

That day, they’d been out to their four-acre farm and back twice, harvesting a total of 6,300 pounds. Maine is the heart of America’s farmed seaweed industry, supplying half its harvest— well over a million pounds —last season. Then they sell the harvest to ASF, which picks up the kelp on the dock. Transportation is one.

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Marketing Harvest Harvesting Harvester 90

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Seaweed naturally absorbs carbon as it grows, but unless it is harvested, it decomposes and releases carbon back. In Alaska, seaweed farmers can only cultivate seaweed varieties that grow natively within 50 kilometers of their farm. That’s a lot of ocean to potentially cultivate. All commercial seaweed farms are on land.

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Farming Farming Food Aquaculture 96

Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

She points out that most of the shellfish she harvests these days have been seeded manually by the town of Southampton and local universities, “almost like a science project,” she says. Volunteers help to hand-harvest the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers 2023-2024 sugar kelp haul on New York’s Shinnecock Bay. That’s not right.”

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Farming Farming Science Harvest 112

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Sprinkled throughout the recipes are fascinating historical tidbits about the Quaker who first cultivated rhubarb in the 1730s, for example, and the Indigenous tribes that used spruce tip tea to ward off scurvy. To make an amaro (relatively easy!) you need to first learn to make a tincture.

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Food Farming Farming Seeding 121