#49 Skye Steritz - Noble Ocean Farms
Skye Steritz is a small business owner, an activist and a teacher. She co-owns Noble Ocean Farms with her husband, Sean, which aims to improve both human health and ocean health through cultivating sugar kelp, ribbon kelp, and bull kelp in a responsible and ethical way.
As an activist, she works to protect clean water and is actively involved in habitat preservation and restoration in the Eyak territory of Alaska, where she lives year-round. Following the leadership of dAXuhnyuu (the Eyak People), she supports several key cultural and environmental revitalization initiatives. Additionally, she coordinated the nationally-renowned Stream Watch volunteer program to protect Alaskan salmon and watersheds on the Kenai Peninsula.
In this episode, Mark and Skye talk about becoming a kelp farmer, what it takes to start in this new and emerging business, what role and and cooperation does community play in this type of business and what kind of food does kelp actually produce and how do we eat it?
Save What You Love with Mark Titus:
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Edited: Patrick Troll
Music: Whiskey Class
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Creators and Guests
Host
Mark Titus
Mark Titus is the creator of Eva’s Wild and director of the award winning films, The Breach and The Wild. He’s currently working on a third film in his salmon trilogy, The Turn. In early 2021, Mark launched his podcast, Save What You Love, interviewing exceptional people devoting their lives in ways big and small to the protection of things they love. Through his storytelling, Mark Titus carries the message that humanity has an inherent need for wilderness and to fulfill that need we have a calling to protect wild places and wild things.
Guest
Skye Steritz
Skye Steritz is a small business owner, an activist and a teacher. She co-owns Noble Ocean Farms with her husband, Sean, which aims to improve both human health and ocean health through cultivating sugar kelp, ribbon kelp, and bull kelp in a responsible and ethical way. As an activist, she works to protect clean water and is actively involved in habitat preservation and restoration in the Eyak territory of Alaska, where she lives year-round.
