Sugar Kelp Farming: Benefit Our Climate, Our Water And Ourselves | Community
Presently, there are kelp growers located in Great South Bay, Moriches Bay, Lake Montauk, Peconic Bay, Oyster Bay, and Setauket Harbor. (Photo: Courtesy of Lazy Point Farms) For those of you unfamiliar with sugar kelp farming, be prepared to be amazed by the benefits to what most of just think of as that slimy stuff in the water, and/or trying to avoid it wrapping around our ankles! Kelp, being a "type of large, brown seaweed that grows in shallow, nutrient-rich saltwater near coastal fronts" has become the new star for climatic, nutritional and other uses producing tremendous benefits. L...
Source: hamptons.com