Aquaculture Harvester Seeding 
Modern Farmer
OCTOBER 24, 2023
After asking around, Shaw realized that these little yellow ropes came from longline oyster aquaculture, an off-bottom growing technique that is particularly useful in areas where the bottom can’t support bottom-grown oysters due to the prevalence of burrowing shrimp. Longline aquaculture uses yellow polypropylene rope.
Civil Eats
AUGUST 21, 2024
and sovereign Indigenous nations, and grant unlimited harvests, even from private property. People of the First Light For thousands of years, the Wampanoag —the “People of the First Light”—have harvested fish for food, trade, art, and fertilizer. In 2022, the tribe was awarded an aquaculture grant of $1.1
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Civil Eats
JULY 17, 2024
Here, over the next 45 days, the spores will be carefully cultivated into seed for farmers and scientists to outplant in the ocean. Many growers see it as a bottleneck: Propagation from wild-harvested seaweed is costly, lengthy, and ties rural coastal communities to laboratories that are often hours, if not days, away.
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. Obtaining the reliably productive, inexpensive kelp seed for the farm is another.
Food Tank
JUNE 14, 2024
Urban agriculture can take on many different forms including, but not limited to, community gardens, urban farms, greenspaces, bioswales, rain gardens, community composting, beekeeping, and aquaculture. Many utilize regenerative growing and composting to maintain healthy crop life cycles from seed to harvest and foster healthy soils.
Civil Eats
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Seaweed naturally absorbs carbon as it grows, but unless it is harvested, it decomposes and releases carbon back. In China and Korea, where seaweed farming first developed into a larger industry, governments provide kelp seed to farmers for free or at a subsidized cost. And many startups have benefited from those E.U.
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
The small, invasive shore crabs are easy to find—they like to hang out in tidal marshes, alongside rocky shores, and on sand flats, but finding fishermen and seafood harvesters willing to catch the crabs for human consumption is a challenge. “Each seed or spore picked is one not being planted,” says Ray. Wild black mustard.
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