11 articles
The right kelp harvest kit — cutting tools, line reels, bins and a disciplined deck layout — turns a chaotic pull into a flow. An equipment guide for small seaweed farms.
Naomi Reyes ·
Fresh kelp lives or dies by temperature discipline. A practical cold chain guide for seaweed farms: chilling, packing, freight options and shelf life, from boat to buyer.
Naomi Reyes ·
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 ·
A kelp harvest is won or lost in logistics: weather windows, crew and crane slots, landing hygiene and the critical first six hours. An operations manual for seaweed farms.
Naomi Reyes ·
A field note from three fog-bound months on California's north coast: working around the marine layer, and why the fog and the kelp are the same story.
Jack Callum ·
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 ·
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 ·
Mooring design makes or breaks a longline kelp farm: grid geometry, design loads, safety factors, and how to engineer a farm to survive its worst storm.
Naomi Reyes ·
A newly seeded kelp bed meets its first storm season. Notes on depth, spacing and which lines came through the winter with their heads up.
Jack Callum ·
Four councillors, one RIB, two spare wetsuits and a young kelp bed. Notes from a field day with the people who sign our permits.
Jack Callum ·
Three days of camanchaca fog shut down every camera we own on the Humboldt Coast. The survey didn't stop — it changed tools. How to work a reef blind.
Jack Callum ·