Today, consumers can find burgers, chips, and even a cannabis gummy made from domestic farmed seaweed, and a recent Nielsen report estimated the value of the edible seaweed industry  to be $1.87 billion in the U.S. One particular type of seaweed, kelp, has co…

Five years ago, the American farmed-seaweed industry barely existed. Wild seaweeds had been harvested for centuries by Indigenous peoples on both coasts, for a range of uses including insulation, med…