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As we re-imagine our relationships to what we eat, Local Food Report creator Elspeth Hay takes us to the heart of the local food movement to talk with growers, harvesters, processors, cooks, policy makers and visionaries

Making Salt from Sunshine (and a Little Manpower)

CAI | By Elspeth Hay
Published January 2, 2014 at 11:26 AM EST
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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. 

Find out more, and get the recipe for Dark Chocolate Custard with Wellfleet Sea Salt on Elspeth's blog, Diary of a Locavore.

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Elspeth Hay
An avid locavore, Elspeth lives in Wellfleet and writes a blog about food. Elspeth is constantly exploring the Cape, Islands, and South Coast and all our farmer's markets to find out what's good, what's growing and what to do with it. Her Local Food Report airs Thursdays at 8:30 on Morning Edition and 5:45pm on All Things Considered, as well as Saturday mornings at 9:30.
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