Something Sweet Grows Here — Cameron Judith Peters

In Shinnecock Bay, six Indigenous women are cultivating sugar kelp—and a more resilient future for their ancestral waters and community.

On eastern Long Island, six Indigenous women known as the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers are cultivating sugar kelp to restore the bay their community has relied on for generations. Decades of development and fertilizer runoff have fueled harmful algae blooms, red and brown tides, and the decline of fish, clam, and oyster populations. Now sea-level rise threatens the land itself: by 2050, more than half of the Nation’s remaining ancestral territory could be lost. This project follows the women as they care for their waters, strengthen their community, and protect a way of life increasingly threatened by the climate crisis.

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