Donna Collins-Smith, Danielle Hopson Begun and Darlene Troge. The Shinnecock Kelp Farmers, together with friends, family and volunteers, harvest kelp in Shinnecock Bay outside the Sisters of St. Joseph retreat located on historic Shinnecock land in Southampton, New York.
A multi-generational team of Indigenous women from the Shinnecock Nation have built the first kelp farming endeavor on the U.S. East Coast, reconnecting to an ancient practice of the Shinnecock and helping clean up Long Island’s Shinnecock Bay in the process.
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What is the value of generations coming together in programs like this?
"We are a multi-generation collective of Indigenous women who are enrolled members of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, leveraging our 10,000+-year-old traditional relationship with the sea and with seaweed to capture carbon and nitrogen that has poisoned the waters of Shinnecock Bay and beyond."
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