34 articles
Fresh kelp is up to 90% water, so drying is where farms win or lose quality. A practical comparison of sun, air, dehydrator, tunnel and freeze drying for seaweed.
Naomi Reyes ·
The gametophyte culture room is the quietest, most critical room in a kelp hatchery. How light banks, temperature regimes and sterile timing turn spores into seed.
Naomi Reyes ·
Wakame (Undaria pinnatifida) is a winter-grown crop seeded in autumn and raced to harvest before summer storms. Methods, seasons, markets and limits.
Naomi Reyes ·
How drones turn a seaweed farm from guesswork into measurement — canopy mapping, biomass proxies, storm damage surveys and a flying workflow that works.
Naomi Reyes ·
Kelp farm technicians seed, string, harvest and maintain the ocean's fastest crop. An honest guide to the work, the seasons, the skills and the pay.
Naomi Reyes ·
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 ·
Co-locating kelp farms inside offshore wind arrays promises shared space, boats and permits—plus engineering, legal and ecological puzzles. The evidence.
Naomi Reyes ·
Vertical seaweed polyculture explained: pairing canopy kelps with understory species at different depths on shared lines, with spacing, shading and harvest rules.
Naomi Reyes ·
A seaweed biorefinery cascades one harvest into several products — pigments, alginate, feed, biochar. How the fractionation order works, and the trade-offs.
Naomi Reyes ·
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 ·
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 ·
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 ·
A regional guide to seaweed farming in Arctic and subarctic waters: compressed growing windows, midnight-sun growth, ice risk, cold-adapted kelps and northern markets.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Whole-line stripping, partial blade cutting, selective hand harvest and mechanical methods — how each kelp harvest method trades yield, regrowth and quality.
Jack Callum ·
Farm-gate price, wet-to-dry ratios, grade premia and buyer margins — an honest, number-first walk through how a tonne of kelp is actually priced, step by step.
Naomi Reyes ·
A practical layout and timing guide for mussel and oyster farmers adding kelp longlines — spacing, intercropping, nutrient balance, harvest sequence and the honest economics.
Naomi Reyes ·
A concrete, season-long picture of a half-hectare kelp farm: layout, gear, hours, yields and honest numbers — the smallest size that still teaches you everything.
Naomi Reyes ·
From 5-metre skiffs to crane barges: how to choose, equip and use a workboat for a kelp farm — propulsion, deck layout, lifting gear and the mistakes that cost seasons.
Naomi Reyes ·
How to keep fouling organisms off your kelp crop and gear: what fouls longlines and when, depth and timing tactics, cleaning methods, and harvest triage.
Naomi Reyes ·
How to evaluate a seaweed farm site: the physical criteria that decide your crop, the water quality checks, and the social map of neighbours and rules.
Naomi Reyes ·
The complete equipment list for a kelp farm — boat, moorings, seeded lines, harvest and handling gear — with realistic cost ranges and buying strategy.
Naomi Reyes ·
The engineering behind a seaweed longline grid: rope and anchor choices, growing depth, line spacing, storm survival and the failure modes to design against.
Naomi Reyes ·
An honest look at small seaweed farm economics: start-up and operating costs, realistic yields per line, kelp prices, and the levers that decide profit or loss.
Naomi Reyes ·
Starting a small seaweed farm is achievable in one to two years for a committed team. Permits, site selection, gear, costs, and the mistakes that sink first farms.
Naomi Reyes ·
Growing food-grade kelp means treating the ocean site, the harvest boat and the drying shed as one hygiene chain. A practical guide to food safety for seaweed farmers.
Naomi Reyes ·
You don't need a hectare and a vessel to farm kelp. Co-ops, allotments and shared-farm models let coastal communities grow seaweed together — here's how they work.
Naomi Reyes ·
Bull kelp (Nereocystis) is the Pacific Northwest's iconic annual kelp — and a famously fussy farm crop. Here's the biology, the progress, and what trial growers should expect.
Naomi Reyes ·
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 ·
A technician's guide to kelp spore settlement onto seed string: sorus selection and spore release, density targets, tank hygiene, light and temperature, and common failures.
Naomi Reyes ·
A seaweed farm's real crop is moving water. How to orient lines, set spacing and use depth so current, light and harvest access all work in your favour.
Naomi Reyes ·
How kelp farmers use sensors, telemetry and simple automation to protect crops between boat visits — what to instrument first, what it costs, and what it buys you.
Naomi Reyes ·
Seaweed farming runs on an 18-month loop, from sorus collection to harvest to gear refit. A season-by-season planner for temperate kelp farms in both hemispheres.
Naomi Reyes ·
A coastal atlas guide to the Yellow Sea: the heartland of world kelp farming, from Qingdao's kombu rafts to green tides and a shallow, changing sea.
Naomi Reyes ·
How seaweed farms can add tours, snorkel visits and school programs as a second income — the permits, safety planning, pricing and pitfalls that make it work.
Naomi Reyes ·