Please pass the Sea Salt…
Posted January 15, 2013 at 9:18 pm by Tim Dustrude
San Juan Island sea salt, that is. You know Brady Ryan, right? Captain of FHHS Soccer team, in what was it… 2003? He’s created a new business on the island called Ryan Farm, LLC and his first product has just arrived at the Co-op… Sea Salt! Right out of Griffin Bay, dried on his farm in San Juan Valley and now packaged and for sale right here at home! Brady has more with the short version of his process…
I adapted vegetable hoop-houses that I learned to build working on a farm in Duvall to make solar evaporated salt. We haul the water in from different spots on the island, and let the sun do the work.
This is the inside of one of the solar drying houses, with a batch of seawater slowly drying as it works its way toward your dining room table.
It comes out as relatively coarse salt, which we then grind, sift and sort to create a good finishing salt-trying to mimic a good fleur de sel in consistency. The way we make it allows a much greater range of minerals in than most sea salt, giving it a wilder, brinier taste.
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only able to pull up “pass the salt” market web site. must be you have blocked texas conservitives. ha love the sample..want tell our friends.. also conversitive…about ur product remember we turned “daddy burns”
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