Introduction

Bob Greene: What's unique about the ocean as an agricultural space? And when you ask the ocean, what says something very simple. Why don't you grow things that don't swim, that you don't have to feed? That is bread. Smith was a teen age misfit who dealt and used drugs and caused various other trouble. These days, he is an ocean farmer. He raises oysters, clams, mussels and kelp that brown slippery weed that looks like packing tape.