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San Juan Island Sea Salt

Friday Harbor, WABrand · Food and drink

The Inkling Our business began with a formative experience: when I (this is Brady speaking) was in college I read an article about folks doing a local thanksgiving and they made their own sea salt. I thought that sounded fun so when I was home from college I made sea salt for Christmas gifts with my friends by boiling seawater on my parents' stove. It took forever, made a huge mess and wasted tons of electricity. But seeing those crystals form hooked me! The Idea Fast forward to 2012 and my girlfriend Leah and I had been working on a vegetable farm outside of Seattle, and thoughts of salt making drifted back to me. I figured I might be able to use my new skills at building greenhouses to make salt a better way! My now wife Leah heard me discussing this idea, and not long after shared a food network video she saw about a business doing just that! And I thought...I can build that! Going For It And since 2012 was supposed to be the last year ever, I was in a very impulsive mood and decided to try it out! Leah and I built our first evaporation house in August of that year on my parents' farm and made our first batch of sea salt. In December we took some jars to a farmers market and made $700 on our first day. We were stoked!