Another startup sees farmed kelp as a market opportunity — this time for use in skin care. Cold Current Kelp in Kittery grows kelp, extracts compounds from the seaweed and makes the a variety of skin ...

Seaweed and kelp are eaten by both humans and domestic animals all over the world. Several species are used in everything from cosmetics and food additives to fertilizers and medicines. However, ...

New environmental DNA tools can accurately and inexpensively quantify kelp-derived biomass in sediments below commercial kelp farms, according to research recently published in PLOS One. The new study ...

KITTERY, Maine (WMTW) — Seven months ago, Maine business partners Krista Rosen and Inga Potter were hauling in their harvest from their kelp farm off the coast of Kittery Point. Fast forward to ...

Cold Current Kelp is a Kittery startup that has developed skin care products from farmed-kelp extract. Founded by Krista Rosen and Inga Potter in 2021, the company grows, harvests, processes and ...