{"id":6921,"date":"2017-10-27T05:34:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T05:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=6921"},"modified":"2017-10-27T05:34:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T05:34:55","slug":"100k-grant-to-enable-buxton-seaweed-company-to-scale-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/100k-grant-to-enable-buxton-seaweed-company-to-scale-up.html","title":{"rendered":"$100K grant to enable Buxton seaweed company to scale up"},"content":{"rendered":"

VitaminSea LLC, a family-owned seaweed harvesting and processing company based in Buxton, received a Phase I $10,000 grant through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Small Business Innovation Research Program to fund a concept study for larger-scale commercialization of its seaweed products.\"\"<\/p>\n

VitaminSea harvests seaweed from Maine sources and creates health products from the seaweed, including animal food, nutritional supplements, plant fertilizers and skin-care products. The company, which plans to use the grant to explore the market potential of kelp as a nutritional supplement and natural preservative, sees the commercialization of kelp as potentially benefitting Maine’s coastal fishing communities.<\/p>\n

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VitaminSea LLC, a family-owned seaweed harvesting and processing company based in Buxton, received a Phase I $10,000 grant through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Small Business Innovation Research Program to fund a concept study for larger-scale commercialization of its seaweed products. VitaminSea harvests seaweed from Maine sources and creates health products from the seaweed, including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,574,555,254,546,4,59],"tags":[421,279,620,126,568],"class_list":["post-6921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-animal-feed","category-algae-cosmetics-2","category-algae-for-cosmetics","category-algae-for-food","category-algae-non-fuel-products","category-algae-cultivation","category-seaweed","tag-algae-cosmetics","tag-algae-cultivation-2","tag-animal-feed-2","tag-food","tag-seaweed-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6923,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921\/revisions\/6923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}