Garwin S1
1 GreenWave, New Haven, CT, USA
In April 2022, GreenWave launched the Regenerative Ocean Farming Hub: an open-source platform designed to train, support, and connect seaweed farmers around the world. In this free-to-anyone digital space, beginning kelp farmers can find curricula and interactive tools to support them throughout planning, permitting, designing, and deploying their farms; as well as how-to videos and lessons on outplanting, monitoring, harvesting, and selling their first commercial crops. The real magic, though, is in the Community: a farmer-driven forum designed to encourage collaboration and knowledge exchange, where beginning and advanced farmers alike can ask questions of one another, forge connections, and share innovations and updates coming off their farms. In this presentation, we’ll give a tour of the Hub, and share examples of how experienced farmers, scientists and industry experts have used the community space to directly connect with and support active ocean farmers. We’ll make the case that collaboration — more than competition — will propel the industry forward, and invite members of the international seaweed community to join in the movement.