What Does the Ocean Want Us to Grow? (LCAW)
What Does the Ocean Want Us to Grow? explores restorative ocean farming as a model of ecocentric thinking in action, and what it offers leaders, communities, and policymakers reimagining our relationship with the natural world.
Restorative ocean farming doesn't begin with what we want to take from the ocean. It begins with a different question entirely: what does the ocean want us to grow? That shift — from extraction to invitation, from imposition to listening — has given rise to regenerative models that restore marine habitat, feed communities, and demonstrate what a genuinely reciprocal relationship between human enterprise and living ecosystems can look like.
This free webinar introduces restorative ocean farming through the lens of ecocentric equity: the principle that human and ecological flourishing are inseparable, and that sustainability means meeting human needs by centring our local ecosystem and our cultural heritage. Drawing on the work of practitioners like Bren Smith, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and the emerging science of polyculture ocean gardens, the session explores what these models make possible and what they ask of us.
Intended attendees: Anyone curious about nature-based solutions, regenerative food systems, marine conservation, and the intersection of ecology and equity — across sectors and experience levels.
Objectives: Participants will leave with a richer understanding of restorative ocean farming as both a practical model and a philosophical shift, and an expanded sense of what reciprocal relationships between human communities and living ecosystems can look like in practice. Light networking for those interested in regenerative ocean approaches.
Speaker: Tara A. Pierce
Format: Webinar with Q&A | Free | 60 minutes