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Encore: Growing Sea Purslane in a Saltwater Aquaponic System

WGCU | By Julie Glenn,
Mike Kiniry
Published May 28, 2019 at 12:46 PM EDT
Dr. Kevan Main, Senior Scientist at Mote Marine Laboratory, and Gil Sharell of Aquatic Plants of Florida, work together in a saltwater aquaponics greenhouse that raises plants using nutrients from marine fish wastewater at Mote Aquaculture Research Park.
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Dr. Kevan Main, Senior Scientist at Mote Marine Laboratory, and Gil Sharell of Aquatic Plants of Florida, work together in a saltwater aquaponics greenhouse that raises plants using nutrients from marine fish wastewater at Mote Aquaculture Research Park.

A researcher at Mote Marine Laboratoryis growing a “sea-green delicacy” calledsea purslanein a novel aquaponic system that's also raising red fish.Dr. Kevan Main, a senior scientist at the laboratory in Sarasota, also developed a “Sea Purslane Cookbook” to help locals enjoy the generally overlooked coastal vegetable. Shejoins us to tell us more about sea purslane, and discuss the details of her aquaponic system and cookbook.

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Julie Glenn
Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
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Mike Kiniry
Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.
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