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Seaweed. Farming. Two words you probably wouldn’t associate with each other.
Seaweed. Dinner. Two more words you probably wouldn’t associate with each other.

Meet Tollef Olson and Paul Dobbins of Portland, Maine’s Ocean Approved, the only commercial kelp farm in the United States, farming on underwater acreage leased from Maine’s Department of Marine Resources.

Paul and Tollef were inspired by mega-aquaculture sites in Asia, and a $7-billion global seaweed industry, and started cultivating last year. The kelp is different from other kelp you find in stores because Ocean Approved kelp is sold fresh frozen, not dried. (You can find Ocean Approved in the frozen food sections of a few Whole Foods Markets and other high-end natural food stores in Boston, Los Angeles and here in Portland, ME.) You can use kelp on its own or mix it with coleslaw, regular pasta and other foods. I tried it mixed in with regular pasta and a garlic/olive oil sauce. It was nice, actually. The fresh frozen Ocean Approved kelp tastes somewhat tangy and crunchy and is much less pungent than dried seaweed. It does not taste fishy and is extremely high in vitamins and nutrients.

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