The largest organic seaweed farm in North America, Springtide Seaweed is structured as a fully integrated, organic seaweed aquaculture company growing several varieties of seaweed: sugar kelp, skinny kelp, alaria, and dulse With the cold clean waters of downeast Maine enabling ideal growing conditions for a large variety of seaweeds, yfirm's seaweed nursery provides USDA organic seed to commercial and hobby farmers throughout Maine and New England and also offering dry and process seaweed into a variety of forms and products. The firm's management has been a leader in seaweed aquaculture for over a decade, supporting development of new nurseries and educational programs, crops and products, sea farmer training programs along with initiating the first organic certification program for seaweed crops, and through major facilitation of the industry.