Ocean Approved - Healthy Kelp

News Channel 8 (WMTW) recently aired a story about Ocean Approved’s kelp farm and how it could be big a winner for Coastal Maine. To view the video and accompanying story, click on this link.

These pickles from the sea were a hit at the 20 Mile Meal and the Harvest on the Harbor Festival.

Ingredients:

• 1lb kelp noodles
• 4 cloves garlic
• 1 red cayenne (or equivalent) pepper finely diced
• 1.25 quarts white vinegar
• 1.25 quarts water
• 2 tablespoons sea salt

1. In a stainless steel pot, bring vinegar, water and salt mixture to a boil
2. Take pot off burner and add Kelp Noodles, garlic and pepper
3. Chill
4. Pack in lidded jars with liquid covering the pickles and store in the fridge

Louie from the Buoy did not survive this week’s storm. When we went out to check on him/her yesterday, all that remained was the holdfast (root). It must have been wild out there as one of our mooring lines rated at 18,750 lbs of breaking strength parted. It will be interesting to see if Louie II will grow from the roots. This is a picture of Louie during the summer.

BOLDBusinessTV Episode #2 featuring Ocean Approved is now live!

BBTV-Episode 2: Ocean Approved – Tollef Olson and Paul Dobbins

…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…

Maine Connection Seafood Company of Torrance, CA is carrying our products and has invited us to visit. We will be sampling seaweed salad and kelp slaw at the farmer’s market.

Palos Verdes-Rolling Hills Estates Farmers’ Market

Time: 9:00AM Sunday, February 7th

Location: Hawthorne Blvd at Silver Spur Road