Farming9 min read
Shipping Seaweed Abroad: Export Rules New Growers Miss
Phytosanitary certificates, food-safety approvals, customs codes and packing rules — the export compliance checklist every new seaweed grower needs.
Naomi Reyes ·
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22 articles
Farming9 min read
Mapping Your Farm: GIS and Drone Basics for Seaweed Growers
Turn a consumer drone and free GIS software into a farm record that tracks lines, growth and problems — and makes every season smarter than the last.
Naomi Reyes ·
Farming9 min read
Working the Farm: Safety Gear and Exposure Protection
The PPE that keeps seaweed crews alive and working: flotation, cold-water protection, gloves, boots and exposure systems for all-weather farm work.
Jack Callum ·
Farming10 min read
A Cheap Sensor Kit for Your Farm: Telemetry That Actually Helps
Build a useful kelp farm sensor kit for the price of a good anchor: DIY temperature chains, light loggers, tilt sensors and telemetry that answers real farm questions.
Naomi Reyes ·
Farming10 min read
Hatchery Light Cycles: Photoperiod Control for Kelp Gametophytes
Red light to hold, blue light to release: how wavelength and day length steer kelp gametophyte cultures, with a practical hatchery lighting setup guide.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Farming9 min read
Insuring a Kelp Farm: Parametric Covers, Equipment and Liability, Plainly Explained
How kelp farm insurance actually pays: parametric wave and temperature triggers, basis risk, equipment scheduling, liability cover and the drivers of your premium.
Naomi Reyes ·
Farming10 min read
Farming Through Heatwaves: Climate Adaptation for Seaweed Growers
Marine heatwaves can erase a kelp crop in weeks. A practical playbook: site strategies, seedstock, timing shifts, monitoring triggers and financial shock absorbers.
Naomi Reyes ·
Farming10 min read
Early Warning Systems for Seaweed Disease: Monitoring Protocols That Work
Kelp disease moves faster than most farm visits. How to build a farm-level surveillance protocol — baseline, triggers, sampling cadence — that catches trouble early.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Farming11 min read
Winning the Shoreline: Community Relations for Seaweed Farms
Consent gets the lines in; relations keep them there. The ongoing craft of being a good harbour neighbour: incidents, viewscape, shared gear, schools and winter check-ins.
Naomi Reyes ·
Farming8 min read
Insuring a Seaweed Farm: Storms, Liability and What Policies Actually Cover
Seaweed farm insurance explained: what aquaculture policies actually cover, where the gaps bite, and how to cut your premium by cutting your true risk.
Naomi Reyes ·
Farming9 min read
Safety on a Seaweed Farm: Boats, Lines, Cold Water and the Checklists That Help
A working-day guide to seaweed farm safety: the hazards that actually hurt people, vessel and line protocols, cold-water rules and the checklists crews should run every trip.
Jack Callum ·
Farming8 min read
Freshwater Hits the Farm: Managing Salinity Shocks on Seaweed Sites
An atmospheric river can drop farm salinity for weeks. How seaweed farmers monitor freshwater events, protect stock and learn each site's local limits.
Naomi Reyes ·
Farming9 min read
Sensors and Data Loggers for Small Seaweed Farms
What to measure on a small seaweed farm, with what: temperature, light, dissolved oxygen, salinity and turbidity sensors — priced, compared and integrated into daily work.
Naomi Reyes ·
Farming8 min read
Nothing Wasted: Handling Loss, Fouling and Rope on a Seaweed Farm
Seaweed farms produce dead crop, fouled lines and spent rope. A practical guide to handling every farm waste stream — from compost to gear recycling.
Naomi Reyes ·
Farming9 min read
Field Water Testing for Seaweed Farms: A Working Protocol
A working water-testing protocol for seaweed farms: which parameters matter, what gear to use, how often to sample, and the thresholds that trigger action.
Naomi Reyes ·
Farming8 min read
Crewing a Kelp Farm: Seasonal Labour, Skills and Pay
How to crew a kelp farm across the season: the roles you need, the skills that matter, how pay structures work, and how to keep good people returning.
Naomi Reyes ·
Farming7 min read
Pests and Diseases of Farmed Seaweed: Identification and Response
How to spot and manage the main pests and diseases of farmed kelp — epiphytes, grazing snails, ice-ice, endophytic infections and more — with a practical response playbook.
Naomi Reyes ·
Farming8 min read
Farming Kelp in Warm Years: A Playbook for a Heating Ocean
Marine heatwaves are now a farm-planning reality. Triggers to watch, decision trees for warm years, and the seedstock and layout choices that hedge the heat.
Naomi Reyes ·
Farming12 min read
Biosecurity on a Seaweed Farm: Keeping Hitchhikers and Disease Out
A practical biosecurity system for kelp farms: the pest vectors that matter, zoning and quarantine design, and what to do in the first 48 hours of an outbreak.
Naomi Reyes ·
Farming8 min read
Writing a Biosecurity Plan for Your Seaweed Farm
A biosecurity plan is your farm's immune system on paper. Components, zoning, SOPs and records that keep pests, pathogens and invasive hitchhikers off your lines.
Naomi Reyes ·
Farming12 min read
Food Safety for Farmed Seaweed: Building a HACCP Plan
A working guide to hazard analysis and critical control points for seaweed farms and small processors — the real hazards, the paperwork, and audit day.
Naomi Reyes ·
Farming8 min read
Winter on the Farm: Storm-Season Operations for Temperate Seaweed Growers
Winter is when a seaweed farm earns its keep: crop checks between gales, fouling pulses, gear inspections and the growth surge fed by cold, rich water.
Naomi Reyes ·