Author: Erin Elizabeth

Move over Kale. You’re so 2015. Hello kelp. Long a huge industry in Asia, seaweed production has recently hit American shores thanks to some cleaver entrepreneurs who are growing fresh (with frozen options) seaweed right here in the States. Just off the Maine coast, Peter Fischer, Peter Arnold and Seth Barker, own Maine Fresh Sea Farms. Back in September, they set tiny starter plants of three varieties of edible seaweed out: kelp, dulse and alaria. And now they have several wide lines of biomass that extend out for yards, just under the water’s surface. The men are all older than 65,...

In the 1990s, Naomi Judd was a queen on the country music scene. She and her daughter Wynonna sold out arenas, had numerous Top 20 hits, and a shelf of Grammys. But that was her second career. In the 80s she had been a nurse in an intensive care unit in Kentucky and in 1991- well into her second and beloved career on the stage- she was diagnosed with Hepatitis C. She would eventually be told she had only three years to live. But she decided not to take her diagnosis lying down and did her own research. She experimented with...