ABOUT US

We created Barrier Islands Salt Co. to celebrate the wild & pure waters surrounding Virginia's Barrier Islands. We love creating a product that lets our customers take home a taste of this magical coastal wilderness.

We’ve spent over 10 years perfecting our sea salt and the result is a bright white, flake sea salt with a clean, oceanic flavor and a sweet finish. We’re extremely proud to be Virginia’s first coastal saltworks since the 1700s!

We're proud to be a part of the Eastern Shore community of farmers and makers. We have a great amount of respect for the salt making traditions of England, France and other countries but we believe that we shouldn’t have to rely on container ships traveling 3,800 miles to enjoy culinary grade flake salt right here at home.

We’ve had careers in two seemingly unrelated professions - David as a 100-ton boat captain with 25 years in the U.S. Coast Guard, and me first in marketing at American Express, then in a variety of corporate brand management and executive positions in the food industry, followed by founding a local food company called Gone Native in D.C. and owning & operating a shop in Union Market. When we moved here and became fascinated with salt making, these disparate careers suddenly dovetailed together like two pieces of a puzzle and Barrier Islands Salt Co. was formed.

Each time we cast off from Oyster Harbor to collect water and catch our first glimpse of the barrier islands, we think about how lucky we are to live here and how grateful we are to all of you who have supported us along this journey.

   - David & Anna