During the summer harvest we allow seawater to flow continually but in small amounts over large shallow clay pools (this allows for greater and faster evaporation). The sea water is never stagant, it is always flowing and therefore concentrating in salinity as it flows throught the circuit of the salt marsh until it reaches the centre and becomes salt in the crsytalisers. The Coarse grey sea salt harvest occurs in the early hours of the morning as the sun rises, and in late afternoon after the flower of salt has been harvested.
With time and experience, the salt marsh slowly reveals it’s secrets, and it’s ephemerial everchanging living process is a beauty to behold. Yet the Salt harvester must always stay humble and accept that the elements can also work against him, he must therefore learn to harness and work with them.
At the end of the harvesting season, we find ourselves with our annual harvest which has slowly dried on the salt marsh and that now needs to be transported back to our workshop. The year’s harvest will be transported, weighed and protected under a tarp for two years before consumption. The Harvest season is over and the salt marsh can now return to nature until next year…