The birth of Isle of Skye Sea Salt
Our Story
Founded in 2011, the Isle of Skye Sea Salt Company is the first to produce sea salt on the island for 300 years. Chris and Meena Watts, founders of the business, have many years experience of sustainable development work both in the UK and overseas. From the outset, their central ethos was to create a sustainable and environmentally friendly business. They used their previous professional experience and knowledge to this end. Chris used his extensive experience in sustainable design to develop a solar evaporation process that would rely only on the sun and wind to evaporate the sea water and produce the salt. The company was the first in the UK to develop and implement this process. Harvested from the mineral-rich sea waters of Loch Snizort, the pure sea salt crystals have a distinct texture with a 'sweet' flavour. The celtic sea salt has won numerous awards and is acclaimed by foodies and professional chefs alike.
It’s our Ethos.
The Isle of Skye Sea Salt Company was set up with the aim of producing a top quality, gourmet celtic sea salt, with minimum impact on the beautiful environment of the Isle of Skye. We have developed a unique solar evaporation process that harnesses the sun and the wind to evaporate the water that sits in ponds within polytunnels beside Loch Snizort.
This very natural process and the provenance of our location on Skye has allowed us to produce a premium quality sea salt with a distinct taste and texture. When we started the business, we were the only sea salt producers in the UK to make the salt using this process and within two years of production, we began winning awards with the most recent being in 2021. These awards are an endorsement of the years of research and hard work undertaken to achieve our ambition and we are proud to be regarded as pioneers of the revival of the historic Scottish Sea Salt industry.
Harnessing the power of the sun and wind to make sea salt is a slow natural process, but one that has earned international recognition. We were very pleased to be one of the few Scottish food producers to be nominated to receive the accolade of being entered into theInternational Slow Food Movement 'Ark of Taste', which recognises producerswho seek to resurrect and reimagine traditional local foods.
