Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Michael And Kalliope Chute. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Hi Michael and Kalliope, thanks for joining us today. Some of the most interesting parts of our journey emerge from areas where we believe something that most people in our industry do not – do you have something like that?
We believe everyone should have access to wonderful seafood, fresh and delicious. Learning where your food comes from meeting the farmers experiencing a day on the farm all things everyone should be able to do. We love to incorporate inclusion on our farm come hang out and spend some time with us versus. Let me do my job and the old salty standoffishness that you can see in our industry at times.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
We are a woman owned family farm in Provincetown, Massachusetts that values inclusion sustainability and gives people an opportunity to see where their food comes from. we love to collaborate to keep it local. We offer such things aquatourism for people to be able to enjoy learning about locally sourced food at a low carbon footprint business we enjoy experimenting and working to make our industry more sustainable and less impactful on our environment.. bringing people in to enjoy it and learn about it is all part of our mission and experience and keeping things as local as possible to celebrate the beautiful bounty of our local waters. We feel a rising tide should lift all boats.
Does your business have multiple or supplementary revenue streams (like a ATM machine at a barbershop, etc)?
One of the big aspects of our business is the attempted biodiversity. We feel that the history of Provincetown shows that a monoculture is not sustainable.. if we can learn from the past, we want to be diversified, we branched out from solely one type of shellfish mostly oysters into other revenue streams, including aqua tourism where we bring people to the farm to experience a day on the farm with a naturalist tour. We have experimented with different types of shellfish and are even looking into additional sources of aquaculture revenue that are nontraditional..
Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?
when we first took the shellfish class, the joke was until you killed 1 million oysters you don’t know what you’re doing and it’s really tough to kill off a lot of oysters in the process of learning what works and doesn’t work but also that bills resiliency you take your wins and build upon them you take your losses and learn from them and in this industry, you have to learn not to take yourself too seriously and also be willing and open to try new things because time and tide wait for no person, so being flexible and adjusting is just a way of life in our industry.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.mermaidmenu.com
- Instagram: Mermaid Menu Seafarm LLC
- Facebook: SilvaChutersSeafarm
Image Credits
Photos my Michael Chute
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