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

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 ...

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 ...

WITH SEA FARMING AND KELP. CHRISTA ROSEN AND INGA POTTER HEAD OUT FROM KITTERY POINT, MAINE, ANTICIPATING A HEALTHY HAUL. A LEISURELY TEN MINUTES FROM THE HARBOR, YELLOW BUOYS MARK THEIR GROW LINES.

Kelp is growing in farms throughout southern Southeast Alaska, yet there’s a limited supply of young kelp plants to grow ...

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 ...