BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 18, 2022
If you lift the longlines of just about any seaweed farm in Maine, you’ll likely see the long blades of kelp or another member of the brown seaweed family. Now a Gouldsboro organic seaweed farmer wants to add a dash of red. Sarah Redmond, the owner of Springtide Seaweed in Frenchman Bay, has set out to develop a new method of farming dulse and nori, two high-value and in-demand red seaweeds. Both have a long history of wild harvest in Maine but are nearly non-existent on seafarms across the country. “People in the North Atlantic have been using and eating these seaweeds forever and there’s tremendous interest in learning a farming system for these plants,” she said.