Ocean Farm Supply is a sustainable packaging company that develops and distributes 100% home compostable, biodegradable, and plastic free mesh packaging. Originally Ocean Farm Supply was founded as an oyster farm in 2017 by Eric Oransky, Willy Leathers, and Tom Klodenski. What started as an experimental lease is now a full lease covering 10 acres… Read more »
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Tanbark – Green in Every Way
Tanbark was born at an intersection. Literally and figuratively. Melissa LaCasse was driving in Westbrook, Maine, listening to On Being with Krista Tippett when the words, “What kind of an ancestor do you want to be?” synced up perfectly with a junction in the road. She decided then and there to turn her climate grief… Read more »
MERC Coordinator Emily Braley Provides Overview and Expansion of Program
As the Coordinator of the Maine Entrepreneurial Resource Corps (MERC), I’ve had the privilege of collaborating with many remarkable businesses across Maine. The MERC program is designed to help start ups with concrete problems to enable growth. MERC does this by providing matching funds for consultants to assist with a particular problem – accounting,… Read more »
MERC Client P3RD Makes Packaging for Cleaner Oceans
Coming from a family of packaging engineers and manufacturers and raised in the paper mill town of Old Town, Maine, the idea for better packaging first sparked when P3RD Founder, Ariadne Dimoula, was a kid swimming in the Penobscot River and saw fast food litter everywhere. P3RD.EARTH, based in Orono, develops innovative packaging solutions made… Read more »