‘Synergies between land and ocean’: Regenerative farming accelerator eyes a faster-growing blue economy
Florida RAS red drum producer Pine Island Redfish joins Bright Tide’s Regenerative Farming Accelerator
Megan Sorby has spent the past five years writing a business plan, assessing sites, securing permits and designing facilities to farm red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) in a recirculating aquaculture system in Pine Island, Florida. Despite making significant gains toward launching Pine Island Redfish, Sorby knows there’s still work to do: She was recently accepted into the Bright Tide Regenerative Farming Accelerator where she will map out the next steps for the land-based farm.
“The aquaculture space is so small [and] so many people know each other already or have worked together and it makes us tight-knit and a great community for collaboration but it also limits us to thinking within our own box,” said Sorby, founder and CEO. “We forget that there is creativity and innovation happening in very related spaces that could drastically impact how we do things.”