097 Seaweed Farming: Healthy, Sustainable, & Freaking Awesome! | Bren Smith

Curiosityness

Travis DeRose

History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Imagine taking an entire farm and putting it underwater in the ocean.

Now imagine that the crops you grow don't need to be watered and don't need pesticides, fertilizer, feed, or soil to grow.

Then imagine that this farm soaks up loads of carbon and nitrogen to help mitigate global warming.

And then imagine that the food it creates is a nutrient-dense superfood that's low in fat and calories.

That's the power of regenerative ocean farming!

In this episode I'm joined by author and ocean farmer, Bren Smith. Bren pioneered the development of regenerative ocean farming and was named one of Rolling Stone magazine's "25 People Shaping the Future" as well as being featured in TIME magazine's "Best Inventions of 2017". He's also the co-founder of GreenWave, a non-profit that trains and supports regenerative ocean farmers.

Tune in to learn…

-How a seaweed supplement fed to cows reduces their methane emitting burps,

-About the McDonald's Seaweed Burger from the 90's,

-That kelp is full of vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, amino acids, omega-3 fats, and fibre,

-How to start your own ocean farm (& make a good living too),

-How to cook with seaweed,

-Where to by seaweed,

-& so much more!

Learn more at https://www.greenwave.org/

Grab your copy of Bren's book, Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer.

Available on IndieBound at https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780451494542

And on Amazon at https://amzn.to/36zlhdE

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Transcript

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0:00.0	A spontaneous and unrehearsed interview.
0:08.1	Hello and welcome to the 97th episode of Curiosityness.
0:13.1	I am Travis DeRose, the host that you're listening to this very second, and maybe you'll be eating some seaweed pretty soon. I think you'll be eating a lot
0:22.4	of seaweed soon and you're going to like it. It's going to be tasty. It's going to be healthy for you and it's going to be saving the planet. It's going to be sustainable. It's going to be cheap. Oh, it's great. So that's what I have on Brent Smith. He's the author of a book called Eat Like a Fish. my adventures as a fisherman
0:36.5	turned restorative ocean farmer.
0:38.9	So that's what Brent is.
0:39.8	He's a restorative ocean farmer. author of a book called Eat Like a Fish, My Adventures as a Fisherman, Turn Restorative Ocean Farmer.
0:38.9	So that's what Brent is. He's a restorative ocean farmer. He farms and grows things in the ocean,
0:43.9	like seaweed, oysters, all kinds of stuff. So we talk a lot about that, and why growing things like
0:51.2	that in the ocean is kind of better than fishing or like a fish farm or something like that
0:57.1	and the benefits that go come with you know an ocean farm like taking carbon out of the water and the air
1:03.9	and uh you can all these things you can do with seaweed too that you wouldn't even think of just because
1:09.4	we're not using them right now like feeding seaweed to cows as like livestock feed and it reduces the methane
1:15.7	emissions from cows which is messing up the global warming issue so man there's just so much stuff
1:21.4	it's it's so fun we kind of talk about how to start your own underwater farm and become an ocean farmer if you want to. Greenwave is
1:30.3	Bren's company who helps with that. So it's a really, really interesting fun episode that really
1:35.2	gets me excited for the future. So without further ado, let's get to the episode with Bren Smith.
1:43.7	All right, Bren, we're going.
1:45.6	How you doing, man?
1:46.9	Good. Great to meet you. Thanks for having me on.
1:49.0	Yeah, heck yeah. Excited to talk. I've been through your book, read the whole book.
1:52.8	I got it freaking, you know, all marked up and all this crazy stuff.
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