Farming under the sea?
Meet Bren Smith, the ocean farming pioneer whose vertical kelp and shellfish farms can transform the way food is produced. As a commercial fisherman, Bren’s career was nearly wrecked by the crashing cod stocks in the North Atlantic; he then turned to oyster farming, just in time for catastrophic, climate-driven storms to show him there wasn’t a solid future in that, either. Unwilling to tether himself to land, he took the hard lessons learned and returned to the sea with a new method of restorative ocean farming. What he discovered is a way to produce large quantities of nutritious food that fights the climate crisis, cleans the ocean, creates aquatic habitat, and sustains his sea-going way of life.
FULL CREDITS:
A Patagonia Provisions film
Director: Darcy Hennessey Turenne
Cinematography: Malcolm Desoto, Darcy Hennessey Turenne, & Tavish Campbell
Editor: Darcy Hennessey Turenne
Additional editing: Alex Harris
Music: Stephen Beddall
Animation: Valeria Searle
Animation art direction: Julia Llanos
Photo animations: Blair Richmond
Sound design: Dave Graham
Color: David Tomiak & Elemental Post
Online Editor: Ryan Mance
Archival photos courtesy of: Bren Smith
Stock footage: Pond5.com, Shutterstock.com, Greenwave.org, & Tyler Mifflin / SK Films
Executive Producer: Birgit Cameron