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Hatteras Saltworks Local Island Solar Farm

North Carolina just became the second largest solar state in the country. Our state’s solar installations have even helped the United States solar market almost double its annual record. However, the unique solar oven design for a local solar farm, Hatteras Saltworks, is worthy of attention. On February 19, 2017 I met with the owners of Hatteras Saltworks, Brian and Shaena McMahon. We walked around their solar salt farm as they showed me how they collect, filter, and evaporate the sea salt in solar ovens, on their solar farm, made mostly out of recycled materials found on the Outer Banks.

The meeting of the warm Gulf Stream and the cool Labrador current, causingin solar ovens, then hand picked in their United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved packaging facility. Here the clumps are broken down and go through a final drying in the ovens. In all aspects of the process they keep the Sea Salt as pure and natural as possible. Each bag of sea salt is packaged by hand and sold at the local farmers markets and local island stores; Conner’s Supermarket ,Fox Water Sports, and at the Cape Hatteras Motel in Buxton. Also available for purchase online via their website: www.HatterasSaltworks.com.

Hatteras Saltworks currently offers three flavors of sea salt; regular sea salt, pecan smoked and seasonal rosemary sea salt, which will be available on their website and locally around the winter Holiday season. Brian and Shaena walked me