Kelson Marine and collaborators sample kelp grown on an open-ocean seaweed farm. Farming kelp to sell as food, beauty products, fertilizer additives and other goods is a growing industry in Maine, but ...

Alaska’s newest kelp hatchery recently finished its first growing season in a mobile shipping container in Kodiak. The ...

Another startup sees farmed kelp as a market opportunity — this time for use in skin care. Cold Current Kelp in Kittery grows kelp, extracts compounds from the seaweed and makes the a variety of skin ...

ST. GEORGE, Maine (WABI) - Maine leads the nation in seaweed farming. There are kelp farms located across Casco Bay and along the Midcoast. Keith Miller of South Thomaston is a pioneer in kelp farming ...

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

KITTERY, Maine (WMTW) — Seven months ago, Maine business partners Krista Rosen and Inga Potter were hauling in their harvest from their kelp farm off the coast of Kittery Point. Fast forward to ...

Cruising by on a boat, it’s easy to miss Jake Patryn’s farm, which looks like nothing more than an unassuming row of red and white buoys floating just off the coast of Machias, Maine. The crop he and ...

From the antioxidant effects of blueberries to the cholesterol lowering effects of chia seeds, consumers love so-called superfoods. So could kelp seaweed join the superfood family as a favourite of ...