Seagriculture Speaker

Darlene Troge is an enrolled member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, Hassanamisco Traditional Council Trustee, Shinnecock Tribal Elder, and serves as the Administration and Finance Director for Shinnecock Kelp Farmers. She is one of six in a collective multi-generational group of Indigenous women who are leveraging their 10,000+-year-old traditional relationship with the sea and with seaweed to capture carbon and nitrogen that has poisoned their waters.

Troge and Shinnecock Kelp Farmers are laying the groundwork for others to understand the regenerative and reciprocal ecosystem that kelp provides by restoring the water, providing jobs and scalability. The traditional teachings are joined with climate science to plan a journey for future generations that is better in alignment with water healing, protection practices and disciplines.

Troge holds a Masters in Business Administration and a Bachelor's Degree in  Organizational Development from State University of New York. She was raised on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation where no one has ever owned the land, sea or air but all Tribal members share, to this day, in caring for the sacred earth as a collective.

Company info: 

We are a multi-generation collective of six women who are enrolled members of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, leveraging our 10,000+-year-old traditional relationship with the sea and with seaweed to capture carbon and nitrogen that has poisoned the waters of Shinnecock Bay and beyond. 

Presentation:

We will describe the impact that seaweed has had on our Tribal community for generations, how kelp is healing our waters today, and how our traditional teachings are combining with climate science to scale up.