Two Skidmore College students started the Wellfleet Sea Salt Company with a simple proposition: let the sun do most of the work. On the Local Food Report, Elspeth Hay explores the process and offers a delicious custard recipe for enjoying the results. How barebones is the salt-making operation? Seawater is evaporated within floating greenhouses, and the resulting crystals are crushed with a wine bottle.
UPDATE: This report aired last January 2013.
Zak and Hope graduated from Skidmore last May and are now working year round producing sea salt in Wellfleet.
