A FIELD GUIDE TO SALT & ITS MAKERS
Discover salt farms and saltworks, how their salt is made, and where you can visit. Explore 54 sourced profiles across 23 countries.
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A growing selection,
with sources on every profile.
A WORLD OF SALT
Select a region to explore our current research. Counts describe this directory, not all the saltworks in the world.
Dots mark countries, not farm locations. Regional browsing, not precise farm locations. Hawaii is grouped with Oceania; the Canary Islands with Africa. Country filters remain separate. Map: Natural Earth, public domain.
Source and method are separate: solar evaporation, heated pans and mining describe how salt is produced. Mixed or unclear origins require further research.
Heat tags are editorial groupings of each producer’s own process description, linked on its profile. 4 profiles do not yet establish a heat source and are left untagged rather than guessed.
Poland
A saltmaker gathering crystals at the saltworks · Photo: Photographer not identified
Ciechocinek, Kujawy
Graduation towers and open pans connect landscape to saltmaking.
United States
Sunrise at Netarts Bay · Photo: Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives
Netarts Bay, Oregon
Oregon-made flake and kosher salts from Netarts Bay.
Spain
Salinas de Janubio — Lanzarote · Photo: H. Zell
Lanzarote, Canary Islands
A working family saltworks and visitor route in Lanzarote.
Portugal
Salmarim’s saltpan landscape · Photo: Ricardo Bernardo
Castro Marim, Algarve
Sandra Madeira and Jorge Raiado’s family saltworks, where hand-harvested flor de sal meets a love of food and design.
Iceland
Saltmaking at Reykjanes · Photo: Axel Sig
Reykjanes, Westfjords
Geothermal heat used to turn seawater into flakes.
United Kingdom
An evaporation pool at Suffolk Sea Salt · Photo: Suffolk Sea Salt
Poppies Farm, Suffolk
Salt made at Poppies Farm from seawater collected at Felixstowe Ferry.
Netherlands
Heated salt pans at Zeeuwsche Zoute · Photo: © Sandra Koppelaar Fotografie
Bruinisse, Zeeland
Eastern Scheldt seawater becomes salt flakes in Bruinisse, Zeeland.
Misaki, Ako, Hyogo
A working saltmaking heritage site in Ako Seaside Park.
United States
Amagansett, New York
Amagansett Sea Salt makes finishing salt on eastern Long Island.
Israel
Atlit
A saltworks at the beginning of Salt of the Earth’s story.
United Kingdom
Ayr, Scotland
A thorn tower concentrates seawater before the heated finish.
United States
McClellanville, South Carolina
Bulls Bay seawater becomes salt in greenhouses at McClellanville.
United States
Newark, San Francisco Bay, California
Bay water moves through ponds before a mechanical salt harvest.
United Kingdom
Pol Gwarra, Cornwall
Crystals and flakes made at the Cornish Salt House.
Australia
Dampier, Western Australia
Seawater ponds and bulk salt production in Western Australia.
Salinas del Gualicho, Río Negro
Industrial salt from a continental salt flat in Río Negro.
Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur
Large-scale solar sea-salt production beside Ojo de Liebre.
United Kingdom
Anglesey, Wales
Menai Strait seawater, crystallised into hand-harvested flakes.
United States
Kaunakakai, Molokai, Hawaiʻi
Solar-pan sea salt made on Molokai.
United Kingdom
Loch Snizort, Scotland
Sea salt from Loch Snizort, finished in Dunvegan.
United States
Malden, West Virginia
Well brine becomes hand-raked salt in Appalachian sun houses.
Beimen, Tainan
Mosaic-like salt pans keeping a traditional craft visible.
United States
Keahole Point, Hawaiʻi
Deep-ocean seawater and a salt farm open to visitors.
New Zealand
Marlborough, South Island
Dominion Salt’s Lake Grassmere saltworks use seawater pumped into an evaporation system.
Denmark
Læsø
Concentrated coastal groundwater is heated in open salt pans.
Portugal
Aveiro
A working salt pan and open-air museum in Aveiro.
United States
Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts
Down Island Farm in Vineyard Haven produces Martha’s Vineyard Sea Salt.
United States
Matinicus Island, Maine
Sea salt made on Matinicus Island, off the Maine coast.
Greece
Mesokampos, Messolonghi
Sea-salt ponds and the hand-gathered afrina harvest.
Portugal
Belamandil, Olhão, Algarve
Flor de sal and coarse sea salt from the Ria Formosa.
Japan
Shimizumachi, Suzu, Ishikawa
Traditional agehama saltmaking on the Noto Peninsula.
Ireland
Port Oriel, Clogherhead, County Louth
A sea-salt producer on County Louth’s Clogherhead coast.
France
Camargue, Arles
A working sea-salt landscape in the southern Camargue.
France
Aigues-Mortes, Camargue
Sea-salt ponds on the edge of the Camargue.
Italy
Cervia, Emilia-Romagna
Cervia’s traditional saltmaking, kept in working hands.
Spain
Ibiza, Balearic Islands
Mediterranean salt pans on the island of Ibiza.
Spain
Isla Cristina, Huelva
Atlantic sea salt gathered in the marshes of Isla Cristina.
Portugal
Olhão, Algarve
Traditional sea salt and flor de sal in the Ria Formosa.
Spain
Campos, Mallorca
Mediterranean seawater concentrated in Mallorca’s salt ponds.
Italy
Nubia, near Trapani, Sicily
Family-run salt pans at Nubia, paired with a salt museum and guided visits.
Marsala, Sicily
A coastal saltworks landscape facing Mothia, with evaporation ponds and a restored windmill.
Maras, Urubamba, Cusco
A salty spring, hillside terraces and two Andean communities.
United States
San Juan Island, Washington
Summer seawater harvests in greenhouse ponds.
United States
Burgaw, North Carolina
Wrightsville Beach seawater is brought to Sea Love’s farm in Burgaw.
Slovenia
Sečovlje, Piran
Hand-harvested salt on cultivated petola beds.
Australia
Useless Inlet and Useless Loop, Western Australia
Tidal seawater, solar ponds and a bulk salt harvest.
Japan
Nagahashimachi, Suzu, Ishikawa
Noto seawater concentrated on reed screens before boiling.
United States
York, Maine
A small-batch sea-salt business in southern Maine.
Croatia
Nin, Dalmatia
Adriatic seawater moves through open salt ponds.
Croatia
Ston, Pelješac
Solana Ston produces sea salt in shallow ponds beside the town of Ston.
South Korea
Jeungdo Island, Shinan, Jeollanam-do
Reservoirs, evaporation fields and an island salt harvest.
Australia
Little Swanport, Tasmania
Tasmanian flakes with tours at the saltworks.
Salinas de Añana, Álava
Spring brine crystallises on the terraces of Añana.
Ireland
Ring, near Clonakilty, County Cork
Atlantic seawater, with a process that changes with the seasons.
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FEATURED PRODUCTS
Explore featured salts from the makers in our directory. Find a flavour, discover its story, and shop directly with the producer.
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View Flaky Sea Salt at Saltverk (opens in a new tab)Iceland · Saltverk
Sea-salt flakes in a 90 g glass jar, made with geothermal heat in Iceland’s Westfjords.
Buy from Saltverk (opens in a new tab)Product details from the producer · Checked 2026-10-07 [5] [6]
View Hostess Jar at Martha’s Vineyard Sea Salt (opens in a new tab)United States · Martha’s Vineyard Sea Salt
A 3.5 oz jar of Martha’s Vineyard sea salt, with a choice of plain, blended and oak-smoked varieties.
Buy from Martha’s Vineyard Sea Salt (opens in a new tab)Product details from the producer · Checked 2026-10-07 [3] [4]
View Flor de Sal Natural — Elements, 125 g at Salmarim — Moinho das Meias (opens in a new tab)Portugal · Salmarim — Moinho das Meias
Hand-harvested flor de sal in an Elements container of Portuguese cork and glass, according to Salmarim.
Buy from Salmarim — Moinho das Meias (opens in a new tab)Product details from the producer · Checked 2026-10-29 [3] [5]
View Puur — sea salt flakes at Zeeuwsche Zoute (opens in a new tab)Netherlands · Zeeuwsche Zoute
Sea salt flakes in a 100 g glass jar. Made and packed in Bruinisse, according to the producer.
Buy from Zeeuwsche Zoute (opens in a new tab)Product details from the producer · Checked 2026-10-08 [4] [5] [8]
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PLACES, PEOPLE & SALT
ICELAND · PRODUCER CONTRIBUTION
Explore the Westfjords saltworks through its team’s story, production details and credited photographs shared by the producer.
Explore more places in photographs, from Lanzarote’s salt ponds to the shores of Netarts Bay.
Lanzarote, Canary Islands
Netarts Bay, Oregon
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