Media Archives
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2019
Agriculture Monthly | Farming Kelp and Shellfish is a Way to Save the Seas
Watershed Sentinel | Ocean Farming Could Help Feed the Future
27 East | Kelp, Good For You And The Environment
World Economic Forum | Pioneers for Our Planet: the People Fighting to Bring Nature Back
Hartford Courant | A New Era in Farming: Connecticut’s Agricultural Landscape Continues to Evolve
MBG | Fun Fact: Beyond Being Delicious, Seaweed Can Help Us Fight Climate Change)
Strategy + Business | Our Planet: Our Business, and Our Conversations
Forbes | Culture Change for Climate Change
Forbes | What Seaweed Can Teach Us About Building a Better Economy
Food Tank | GreenWave Works to Restore Oceans all over the Globe while Creating Jobs and a Market for Seaweed
Popular Science | Meet the ‘Oyster Wench’ — a Single Mom Fighting Pollution with the Power of Clams and Kelp
Geographical | Floating Deep Farms to Feed a Growing Population
2018
The Daily Nutmeg | Kelp Is on the Way
Scientific American | Soil and Seaweed: Farming Our Way to a Climate Solution
CleanTechnica | Interview with Bren Smith, The Fisherman Shaping the Future
The Newtown Bee | Newtown Professor Pioneering Breakthroughs in Seaweed Science
Real Small Towns | Overcoming the Urban-Rural Chasm, for Everybody’s Sake
60 Minutes | Seaweed Farming and its Surprising Benefits
The Day | Three Farmers Will Bring in Kelp Harvest from Fisher’s Island Sound this Spring
Westfair Online | Kelp Harvesting on the Upswing in Connecticut’s Waters
Connecticut Magazine | Seaweed May Be the Wave of the Future
2017
Hartford Courant | Connecticut Kelp Farming Set To Expand, But Permit Hassles Causing Delays
Yale Environment 360 | Can We Save the Oceans By Farming Them?
The Day | Kelp Farmer Seeking to Expand to Stonington Harbor
CBS New York | Stories From Main Street: Connecticut Ocean Farmer Hopes To Make Kelp The New Kale
The Conversation AU | How Farming Giant Seaweed Can Feed Fish and Fix the Climate
Times Live | Are Underwater Farms the Future of Food Productions?
Long Island Pulse | How the Long Island Sound is Becoming Home to a Healthier Seafood
The Nation | This Former Fisherman Is Now Farming the Most Sustainable Food on Earth—Underwater
Nation Swell | The Sustainable ‘Farm of the Future’ Is Changing How Food Is Grown
Hartford Courant | Connecticut’s ‘Vertical Ocean Farmer’ Wants to Change World’s Food Supply System
Medium | The Seas Will Save Us: How an Army of Ocean Farmers are Starting an Economic Revolution
TakePart | He Made Kelp the New Kale, but This Seaweed Farmer Isn’t Done Yet
Financial Times | GreenWave
Macleans | A Kelp Agricultural Revolution
Medium | Dear Mark Zuckerberg: Meet a Game-Changer in Every State
MartketWatch | These 2 Projects are Exploring the Potential of Underwater Farming
2016
Popular Science | Could Underwater Farming Feed the World?
Nexus Media | The Promise of 3D Farming
Irish Times | Seaweed: the next big step for Irish food and farming?
Global Daily | Vertical Ocean Farming Creates Healthy Ecosystems
CUESA | Bioneering a Sustainable Sea Change with Ocean Farmer Bren Smith
Patagonia | The Cleanest Line: GreenWave
The Atlantic | Kelp Is the New Kale
Gastropod | Seaweed Special
Outside Magazine | Kelp is the Ocean’s Most Underutilized Power Ingredient
Sustainable Bren’s | With 3D Ocean Farming, We can Eat Sustainably While Restoring Our Oceans
FINE | Sea to Campus: Connecticut Colleges Explore Culinary Uses for Kelp
NBC | Red Tape Slows Bloom of Seaweed Farming’s Green Revolution
Straits Times | ‘Ocean Farmer’ helps tackle climate change
L’Orient Le Jour | A former commercial fisherman is shifting paradigms one ocean farm at a time
Huffington Post | How Underwater 3D Farms Could Revolutionize Food Production
Quartz | Ocean farmers are using technology to start an economic revolution and save humanity
Los Angeles Times | Ocean farming goes in a new direction
Food&Wine | Is Vertical Farming the Key to Sustainable Seafood
WNYC | Seaweed, Kelp, and an Ocean of Culinary Possibilities
2015
The Guardian | GreenWave ocean farming model scoops $100,000 sustainability prize
The New York Times | As Lobsters Dwindle in Long Island Sound, Oysters Thrive
Slow Food USA | The Next Kale
Ocean Wise | Seaweed: The most sustainable seafood on the planet
2014
2013
2012
Food Republic | Bren Smith’s Vertical Ocean Pasture, The Wave of Future Farming
Aljazeera | Farm to table’s dirty little secret
Food Tank | Thimble Island Oyster Co. Takes Sustainable Gardening Underwater
New York Times | Don’t Let Your Children Grow Up to Be Farmers
Civil Eats | 3D Seafood Farms Could Fix the Ocean and Our Diets
Edible Long Island | KELP: Eat Like a Fish
Bon Appétit | Seaweed Is the New Hip Health Food, Loved by Chefs
Future of Fish | Breakthrough Aquaculture
Bon Appétit | Bren Smith Is Changing the Way Seaweed Is Grown—and Eaten
Yale News | Student interns get hooked on sustainable fishing
The New Yorker | Seaweed on the Rocks
New Haven Register | Seaweed nay offer lucrative future for Connecticut aquaculture
Edible East End | Discover an East End Food Startup
Riverhead News-Review | Kelp, a slippery seaweed, could be major moneymaker
Mashable | Help Restore the Sea With a 3D Ocean Farm in Kickstarter
New Haven Register | A first for Long Island Sound: Kelp farmed in Branford being used as a food product
The CT Mirror | Seaweed: It’s what’s for dinner
Yale Environment 360 | How Mussel Farming Could Help to Clean Fouled Waters
The Wall Street Journal | Life Down on the Kelp Farm
National Geographic | Restoring the Urban Sea by Farming It