SPRINGTIDE SEAWEED
ABOUT 'Springtide' in old English means 'springtime'. This is harvest season for the seaweed crop. A spring tide is also the time when the tide "springs forth" during the new and full moon, giving us the highest and lowest tides of the month. COMPANY COMPETENCIES Springtide Seaweed operates the largest organic seaweed farm in North America in Down East Maine, cultivating some of the finest seaweeds in the world for people and the planet. We also operate a state of the art USDA Organic seaweed nursery and processing facility in Gouldsboro, Maine. In partnership with the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine we also developing a research and teaching aquaculture nursery scheduled to open in Q1 of 2019. Additionally we participate in the in the innovative First Work Program at Herring Gut Learning Center in Port Clyde, Maine, as well as offering a seaweed farmer certification program through the University of Massachusetts-Boston.
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