Aquaculture Ecology Food 
Modern Farmer
AUGUST 29, 2023
Walla Walla’s hands-on coursework is bringing together agriculture and culinary students as part of a nascent movement among community colleges that are increasingly bringing food production into curricula in new and innovative ways. Walla Walla Community College hopes to offer surplus agricultural products at its food pantry, too.
Food Tank
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
The three-part series showcases blue food solutions and innovations around the globe to help feed the world and global waterways. Through Hope in the Water we are on a mission to reimagine a planet where both ecological balance and food abundance are possible. The series is directed by award-winning filmmaker Brian Peter Falk.
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Civil Eats
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Several years of steady investment and scientific breakthroughs have helped it advance, but since 2023, funding has dropped precipitously, and so have retail prices for seaweed-based foods. I don’t know if it’s 100 years or five years, but we’re gonna be growing huge amounts of food underwater,” he predicts.
Modern Farmer
DECEMBER 15, 2023
mile rock-walled lagoon used for aquaculture. Its farming practices also help re-establish a vital ecological role: The irrigated ponds absorb floodwater and filter sediment flowing to the sea while the crops create wildlife habitat and curb invasive plant growth. Staff member and Farmer Specialist Nick Reppun steams loʻi.
Civil Eats
JULY 31, 2024
One type in particular, kelp—a large brown algae with many species, including sugar kelp— has been hailed as an ecologically beneficial, nutritious superfood that can be farmed on both U.S. You can’t have this incredibly positive impact on the environment, on the food chain, on our partner farmers. Transportation is one.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 3, 2024
But, in recent years, a slew of new regulations designed to protect endangered Atlantic right whales, which play an important role in the region’s marine ecology, have hampered the industry. After all, large whales are important to their marine environments.
Civil Eats
JUNE 27, 2024
Shellfish are a traditional food source for the Shinnecock; they were also once the backbone of Long Island’s robust commercial fishing industry. And they can spell disaster for coastal communities, as 3 billion people globally rely on “blue foods” from the ocean, including shellfish, as a primary source of protein.
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