Saltings

Overview

Saltings is a harvest, production, provenance and shop app for an artisan sea-salt works on a sheltered Atlantic estuary. It tracks every stage from crystallising pans through to customer delivery, and provides a customer portal that traces each pack back to the named pans, the salter who raked it, harvest density, and the weather of that week.

What you get

• Pan monitoring: read brine density in degrees Baumé, salinity, depth and crystal state for each of 340 pans
• Harvest recording: log fleur de sel skims or sel gris draws with wet and drained weights, moisture and crystal grading in millimetres
• Sluice and tide management: run sluices against tide tables and log evaporation and rainfall
• Lot grading and release: grade and release lots against laboratory and sensory results
• Production workflow: work the flaking pans and smoking chamber
• Packing and despatch: pack, stock and despatch by SKU and batch code
• Account management: hold chef, delicatessen and distributor accounts
• Conservation records: habitat and bird-survey records for saltmarsh conservation obligation
• Customer portal: trace every pack to its crystallising pans, named salter, harvest Baumé and weekly weather

The signature screen

The works plan screen displays the 340 clay-floored crystallising pans across 94 hectares, fed by seven feeder channels and three tidal sluices, arranged on a visible tile grid. This central screen allows salters to monitor and interact with individual pans, read their brine conditions, and record harvests in real time.

Who it's for

It is designed for the 18 salters and operators of an artisan sea-salt works, as well as chefs, delicatessens and distributors who purchase the salt.