Bren Smith

Bren Smith, Co-Executive Director of GreenWave and Owner of Thimble Island Ocean Farm, pioneered the development of regenerative ocean farming.

A lifelong commercial fisherman, he was named one of Rolling Stone magazine’s “25 People Shaping the Future” and featured in TIME magazine’s “Best Inventions of 2017”. Bren is the winner of the Buckminster Fuller Prize and the Curt Bergfors Food Planet Prize and has been profiled by 60 Minutes, CNN, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, and elsewhere.

He is an Ashoka, Castanea, and Echoing Green Climate Fellow and James Beard Award-winning author of Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures Farming the Ocean to Fight Climate Change. 

GreenWave works to replicate and scale regenerative ocean farming–a zero-input, polyculture seaweed, and shellfish farming model that breathes life back into our oceans. By leveraging a mix of farmer-forward training and support, infrastructure, and market development, GreenWave partners with coastal communities across North America and beyond to create a blue economy that ensures we can all make a living on a living planet.