If you merely retell stories about kelp characters whose stories are already lived — if you neglect to tell the photoless, characterless stories of possibility — you are shaping the ideas of the kelp industry down narrow roads. This approach is causing serious stagnation.
Read MoreThrough a very powerful collab with East End Food and Sue Wicks, we’ve pulled together the opportunity for Sue to sell her first commercial season of kelp in shelf-stable food products.
They’re really good, y’all.
Read MoreAs a process-art person, I do not see my work on this curriculum as a finished product. It will only really begin to take shape once it’s utilized by educators. I want this material to live, breathe and evolve, and I will continue to serve as a consultant, connecting teachers with experts and other teachers, allowing students to showcase their work publicly. Even if they have more questions than answers.
Read MoreEach grower we work with has unique challenges and strengths in their kelp program. Some enjoy a direct working relationship with a township that can construct a greenhouse, which we’ve been grateful to support. Others do fine with a smaller greenhouse. Others will land massive amounts of kelp soon, and a greenhouse won’t do- but we aren’t yet to the point of needing a large-scale machine.
Read MoreMother nature is an absolute mastermind of balancing intricate ecosystems with kelp as her ride-or-die since the beginning, and you are going to try to tell me that Kathy Hochul, behind her veneered wooden desk, is here to decide at this particular moment for all of us whether or not kelp has a positive, meaningfully urgent, place on this planet? Please.
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