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Pictured are veggie tacos made with pickled kelp stipes locally harvested from Lazy Point Farms partner Susan Wicks' Violet Cove Oyster Co. that was processed with the help of The East End Food Institute. 

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At Lazy Point Farms, we believe in being kind to ourselves and our bodies. Seaweed is high in fiber and rich in iodine and other nutrients--it's one of the greatest natural gifts available that we can give to our bodies. Kelp can be a base for soups and broths as kombu. It can be blanched and vacuum packed, fresh frozen, pickled, or dried. It can be made into a seasoning or walt.

Long Island local Kristina’s KCWild Bread is hand crafted and stone baked–and now features sugar kelp! 

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Kristina has been baking using all local ingredients–even her flour is certified organic, stone milled and from local NY farms and mills like Farmer Ground Flour and Champlain Valley Milling–for a while now, and we’re delighted that her latest recipe features locally harvested sugar kelp from food certified waters in Moriches Bay. 

The kelp bread is made using the Devil’s Apron Seasoning Mix, born from a collaboration between Lazy Point Farms, Violet Cove Oyster, and East End Food. Doubling down on the local ingredient theme, Sue Wicks of Lazy Point Farms tried it out with zucchini fresh from her own garden!

KC Wild bakery bread is available by subscription or can be purchased fresh every Saturday at the HOG farm in Brookhaven or at Its Only Natural in Bellport village and Delfiore Italian Pork Store in Patchogue village every weekend.

The Seaweed Min Hydrosol spray is the newest edition to Hampton Aromatherapy's “Sea to Skin” line.

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Hamptons Aromatherapy began in 2001 on a farm in East Hampton and has since expanded and been reinvented from its earliest days–but always staying true to the vision of creating natural products from the garden and the sea!

Using naturally sourced ingredients in small batch, hand-mixed products, packed in sustainable bamboo packaging, the Hamptons Aromatherapy family endeavor to craft products that are good for the customer, the environment, and the local economy.

By using locally grown sugar kelp in their products—sourced from Violet Cove Oyster and grown in food-grade waters—Hamptons Aromatherapy is a prime example of the sort of small-business embedded in their community that we love to see building a mutually beneficial relationship with local growers. We're thrilled to see sugar kelp being used in a wide range of products in the downstate New York area.

Delicious and nutritious as it may be, kelp has potential far beyond the dinner table.

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Brown seaweeds--like the sugar kelp grown by our local community--contain a variety of soluble polysaccharides, making them useful for commonly manufactured products ranging from cosmetic to medical.  They also contain compounds that have the potential to act as a protectant against photodamage. Alginate, derived from macroalgae, has anti-bacterial and tissue engineering applications and is widely used in modern commercial hydrogels. Pictured: a homemade body scrub (just before being mixed together) made from a sugar kelp reduction, calendula, vitamin E, rosemary, lavender, neroli, and Epsom salt

Seaweed-based products offer an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional fertilizers, actively benefiting the planet.

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Sugar kelp cultivation protects marine life by removing nitrogen, promoting deacification, restoring biodiversity, and filtering pollutants as it grows. Once harvested, using seaweed in agriculture improves soil health, root development, and fruit production while reducing the harmful runoff associated with commercial nitrogen fertilizers. Products, such as the one pictured (made by Sue Wicks), are now available for local purchase.

Seaweed is food…but not just for people!

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Not only is it a much more sustainable product than the corn or alfalfa that often makes up livestock diets, but it also contains a number of bio-available nutrients and minerals like Iodine that can improve the health of ruminants and even potentially be passed on to human consumers of dairy products.

But it doesn’t end there. Cattle and related livestock are responsible for 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gases, but studies have shown that when certain algae species are included in livestock feeds, harmful methane emissions can be reduced by as much as 82%.

Pictured above: our founder Justin Moore processing kelp - such a product could be added into pet or livestock feed for a nutritional, methane-reducing boost.

For her Girl Scout Gold Award, Hudson Valley teen Bailey Rodriguez harnessed the potential of peer education to share knowledge about kelp’s amazing benefits toward the health of local flora, fauna and waterways using digital media.

In 2023, William Floyd High School received supplies from Lazy Point Farms in honor of Giving Tuesday. Mrs. Huff's Nutritional Science class and Environmental Science Club teamed up to help bring awareness to fresh local food in the Mastic Beach area.  They have been composting in the classroom and providing fresh greens to students and staff with their grow towers.  Thanks to $200 of supplies provided by Lazy Point Farms to support work in the classroom, they will be starting native plant seeds in their greenhouse in hopes to make pollinator-friendly gardens around the school.