We all know that winter is the off-season for gardeners and farmers, since cold, short days are good for planning the next year’s crops, but not for planting, tending or harvesting. Not true for the seaweed farmers; they welcome the cold. Kelp, a type of seaweed, is a winter crop, and so kelp farmers from […]

What’s That Giant Sucking Noise At The Harbor? If anything slips through our beach clean-ups, hopefully it gets sucked up by our marine trash skimmer. Installed this month in Stamford Harbor off the Harbor Point boardwalk, this first trash skimmer in Connecticut can collect up to 50 pounds of debris per day, including the micro-debris in […]