No one's came and asked this basic question, what's unique about the ocean as an agricultural

space?

What does it make sense to grow?

When you ask the ocean, but says something very simple at whispers in your ear, why don't

you grow things that don't swim that you don't have to feed?

That is Bren Smith.

He has had a fairly interesting life.

Here's a good quick summary of the early part from a book he wrote called Eat Like a Fish.

I dropped out of high school to fish and spent too many nights in jail.

My body is beat to hell.

I crawl out of bed like a lobster most mornings.

I've lost vision and half my right eye from a chemical splash in Alaska.

I'm an epileptic who can't swim and I'm allergic to shellfish.

Smith was a teenage misfit who dealt and used drugs and caused various other trouble.

More and probably he also went to law school.

These days he is an ocean farmer.

He has a 10 acre plot of water off the Thimble Islands of Connecticut in the Long Island

Sound.

He raises oysters, clams, mussels, and kelp that brown, slippery seaweed that looks like packing

tape.

If you were passing by his farm in your boat, you might not notice it.

You'd see these navigation boobies.

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