5 articles
A practical guide to building a small kelp hatchery: culture room design, seawater systems, equipment, budgets and the weekly workflow that produces seeded twine.
Naomi Reyes ·
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 ·
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 ·
Outplanting day is where a kelp season is won or lost. A step-by-step guide to moving seeded lines from nursery tanks to open water without losing the crop.
Naomi Reyes ·
Behind every seeded line is a decision made months earlier: which adults to breed from. How hatcheries select, hold and manage kelp broodstock for reliable seed.
Dr. Elias Brandt ·