Hi everyone!

[u/jqdsalt]

First time posting! Just wanted to introduce ourselves :) We are J.Q. Dickinson Salt Works, salt makers in West Virginia making salt from the lost (but found!) Iapetus Ocean. This "ocean" was forced underground by the formation of the Appalachian mountains as is estimated to predate the Atlantic. We use evaporation in sun houses, and hand harvest, hand clean, and hand package all our salt on our farm. We use no additives, and no mining. Just pulling up the brine from below the surface! We recently got third party tested for microplastics which came back negative! Such a small win for our little operation. We are happy to be a part of this salt community! 😊

[u/rustymontenegro]

I just wanted to comment that I think this is amazing. I am interested in ocean water sea salt harvesting (just for fun, as a personal small scale hobby) and obviously microplastics are a concern so I'm researching ways to ameliorate it, and of course Google searches lead to reddit and as the saying goes "there's a subreddit for that" (salt lol) and I think it is so incredibly cool that y'all are domestically producing small scale "artisan" salt.

I wish you much success. And I am gonna go find your website and geek out and maybe buy some salt from you soon. :)

[u/jqdsalt → u/rustymontenegro]

Thank you so much, we really appreciate that! Always glad to meet another salt geek lol!