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October 20, 2025 1 min

Episode thirteen of Food, Flowers, & Fun: Visits with farm women from around the world features Azure Cygler of Rhody Wild Sea Gardens as we discuss:

  • Raising sugar kelp and oysters
  • Thinking globally; acting locally
  • Knowing when to push on and when to lay off
  • Contributing versus extracting
  • Much, much more!

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(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) Have you ever wondered what it would be like to share ownership of your farm

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with every single person in your entire state? That's just another day in the life of kelp
farmer Azure Cygler, our guest on this episode of Food, Flowers & Fun. So we don't own the water
column at all and in fact we only lease the the bottom per se. So it's sort of a strange

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but really nice process and the anywhere from the Army Corps of Engineers to the Coast Guard
to the towns to the residents everyone has to is welcome to be a part of that permitting process.
So it is a very challenging process it's very involved but I think those are safeguards
because again it is a shared resource so not one person should come in and occupy hundreds of acres

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of ocean for their own enterprise. Whatever the lease from one acre to a hundred has to ensure
that that public trust that commons is maintained. So anybody can passage through my lease,
you can drive a boat through it, you can swim around in it. Listen wherever you get your podcasts
or visit us at www.penlightfarmers.com/podcast.
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