Bulls Bay Sea Salt

What’s the perfect way to kick off the weekend? A giveaway! GrowFood and want to gift some local goodies and merch to one of our supporters!

This is what you’ll win:
🍯 A jar of pumpkin spice honey (tis’ the season) from our friends at
🧂 A salt grinder from our friends at
🧊 A Coastal Conservation League coozy
👕 A 100% organic cotton GrowFood T-shirt (you can let us know what size you’d like upon winning)
📚 Deveaux Bank Seabird Sanctuary coffee table book
📚 On the Edge: Combahee to Winyah coffee table book with photos by J Henry Fair
🥕 A couple fun GrowFood and CCL stickers

To win:
❗️Head on over to Instagram and follow and the
❗️Tag 2 friends in the comments
❗️ Be a SC resident
‼️ BONUS! Share this post to your stories‼️

We will pick a winner on Friday, October 25th and send you a DM to discuss the best way for you to collect these items!

Please consider buying chocolates to support our friends in .

Here is their message:
The Great Flood 💔

Dear Community, Friends & Family,

Asheville and our region have been devastated by floods from Hurricane Helene. It is heartbreaking to see lives, livelihoods, businesses, and homes destroyed by this catastrophic event.

The French Broad River is our namesake, and our Chocolate Factory stands across the street from its banks. This week's flooding of our river is historic, breaking records at 24.67 feet high, beating the previous record of 23.1 feet during The Great Flood of 1916.

Dan and I, along with our son, Max watched in horror as cars and telephone poles floated by on our street, Riverside Drive, and began to lap at the front door of our Chocolate Factory. Fortunately, our team's preparation in sandbagging the front door prevented most of the water from breaching the door. As you can see from this photo of the aftermath, the water rose to 39" up our front door.

As we remove debris and assess the damages, it has become clear that critical utility infrastructure must be restored before we can start making chocolate again.

Here's a before shot, where you can see where the road usually is:

Many communities are without power, water, access to food, gas, and roads. Lots of our friends and neighbors have evacuated for safety. We've got a long hard road ahead of us. But I believe in our resilience and creativity.

So many of you have asked How can I help? Here are a couple places to donate:

American Red Cross here https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-to6.html/?alloy_redirect=eyJ2IjoxLCJhZCI6IjU3OTk3MDoxOjB8MiJ9&utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx=Xw97QJW6x6sQTYg4FuXV2h6_XlNvYXIlvTnjiarGeL27WT-Z5GBv4E-RYeU5YRrm.LggJmGManna

Food Bank here https://donate.mannafoodbank.org/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx=Xw97QJW6x6sQTYg4FuXV2h6_XlNvYXIlvTnjiarGeL27WT-Z5GBv4E-RYeU5YRrm.LggJmGBeloved

Asheville here https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/belovedasheville?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx=Xw97QJW6x6sQTYg4FuXV2h6_XlNvYXIlvTnjiarGeL27WT-Z5GBv4E-RYeU5YRrm.LggJmG
Humbly, we could also use your support.

Would you buy some of our chocolate?

Though it may be weeks before we can resume production of chocolate and reopen our Chocolate Lounge & Chocolate Factory, we have lots of inventory on hand at our Distribution Center, which didn't experience any flooding. Selling it will help us fund the business while we wait to re-establish operations. We can start shipping next week. Join us at frenchbroadchocolates.com and pick out something(s) for yourself and your loved ones. We appreciate you so very much.

Loves, when Dan and I moved to Asheville in 2006, we identified deeply with the creative, resilient spirit of Asheville, the strong support of local business, and the true sense of community and collaboration. We believe in this town now more than ever, and will do what we can to move forward, together.

Love,
Jael & Dan
https://www.frenchbroadchocolates.com/

French Broad Chocolate Farm to Factory. Bean to Bar. Bar to Bakery. Handcrafted in the mountains of Asheville.

TBT from 2015 with one of my most favorite chefs.
10% off orders through Aug 31 with coupon code:NEEDSSALT
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Get 10% off on all orders from now until Monday 🙌🏼 It’s hot and steamy so whether grilling out or in the kitchen you can get the flavor you’re looking for!
Use coupon code: FULLSTEAM at checkout
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New option on our website! Our 3 oz. grinders can now be purchased with a 3 oz. refill. 🙌🏼

Our Habanero Carrot Sea Salt is a huge win in the kitchen! Get a freebie sample with any order placed before April 21st. Spice it up!

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Share the love + support local businesses. 💙

Get spicy this Thanksgiving with a free packet of our Habanero Carrot Sea salt with all orders until Nov. 20th. No coupon code needed.
Homemade chicken salad with chicken from Chucktown Acres and local croissant from
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No time to cook? Pull out the “set it and forget it”trusty crockpot! Most importantly, get on over to Chucktown Acres for your ingredients! Stewing hen for the meal rescue! Started it yesterday. Today, we’re having chicken salad sandwiches for lunch and a nutritious broth saved for a later meal.
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Free! One packet of our Habanero Carrot Sea Salt with every online order - until Nov20th.
14 servings per packet goes a long way so spice it up!
No coupon code needed. www.bullsbaysaltworks.com

10% off! Every BODY needs salt to survive. Get the best here (and a refill bag for your grinder!) www.bullsbaysaltworks.com
10% off with coupon code: OCT2023 at checkout🙌🏽

Counting down the days! 10% off all orders until Oct30th. with coupon code:OCT2023 at checkout.
Happy cooking y’all! www.bullsbaysaltworks.com

Our Bourbon Barrel Smoked Flake will turn your already amazing dish in to something dreams are made of!
We love it on Brussel sprouts, a fine steak, salmon or tofu. 10% off all sales until 10/30 on our website www.bullsbaysaltworks.com
Coupon code:OCT2023

Prep early for all of your holiday cooking + gifting with 10% off purchases until Oct. 30th. Enter coupon code: OCT2023 at checkout www.bullsbaysaltworks.com

We worked with two microbiologists at Clemson to assist them in collecting water from Bulls Bay for another project. In return we were supplied with the "Sea water results from the Agricultural Lab". Here are the results for anyone who wants to nerd out on basic chemistry analysis. High fives to all that live around and protect our waterways! I've attached a link of the periodic table in case anyone needs a cheat sheet :)

**Giveaway Closed** Winner Announced in Stories!

🧂 Our favorite salt to put in our new handmade ceramic Salt Pinches is Carolina Flake from . They extract their saltwater harvest from Bulls Bay, South Carolina, located within the protected wilderness area known as Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge. The water is moved to their homestead where it it goes through an evaporation process in their solar tunnel, and the resulting salt is sifted and packaged.

🧂 Flake salt is thinner and larger than regular salt crystals resulting in more surface area which makes the salt light and fluffy with a quick pop of saltiness and a satisfying crunch.

🧂 We want one of you to bring home their Carolina Flake along with a Salt Pinch in Mariana, a handmade wooden salt spoon and a grinder of their Smoked Sea Salt.

🧂 To put your name in the hat you can:
-follow Haand- Porcelain Tableware and Bulls Bay Sea Salt
-leave us a comment here telling us what you'd put this salt on

More details in the comments.

We are huge fans of everything we order from Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company and especially the contribution of Motherland Okra by our friend Jon Jackson 🙌🏽
Order your seeds today, it’s not too late!!

⛔️ PLEASE! ⛔️ Try this recipe! 👇

This recipe comes from Jon Jackson at Comfort Farms in Milledgeville, Georgia, and is using the Motherland Okra variety.

Roasting okra is a delicate process that starts with the perfectly picked pod. Squeeze the tip of the okra pod, and if it’s tender to the touch it’s ready to harvest. Or, if you like, eat it raw, taking note of its size and tenderness, and then pick within that range. Motherland okra has a beautiful floral note that carries the flavor of the flower from which it was borne. Be careful not to pick it too early, though; that will slow down pod production.

In optimal conditions, Motherland okra will reach heights of 15 feet! To reach the okra pods just gently pull the trunk toward the ground without breaking it, and use sharp scissors to harvest the pods.

𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐎𝐤𝐫𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐙𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐚𝐮𝐜𝐞
𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒
1 lb. fresh okra (all of similar size)
3 T. olive oil
1 t. smoked salt, such as Bourbon Barrel Smoked Flake from Bulls Bay Salt Works
1/2 t. black pepper

𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒
1. Split the okra in half longways. Place it in a one-gallon zip-close bag with the other ingredients, then shake the bag until the okra is covered with the seasoning and oil.
2. Preheat the oven to broil.
3. Place the Motherland okra on a baking sheet and roast until you achieve the perfect char without burning it. Throughout African indigenous culture, the art of char is important for open-fire cooking, as it signifies that the food is cooked thoroughly. Africans avoid eating anything raw. Because living in the bush is a tough life and disease is rampant, stewing and roasting food is essential to prevent food-borne illnesses.

𝐙𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐘 𝐆𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐈𝐂 𝐌𝐀𝐘𝐎 𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐜𝐞
𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒
2 large cloves (or 4 small cloves) garlic, roasted and mashed
1/3 c.regular or vegan mayonnaise (Jon uses Duke’s mayo)
2 T. freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/2 t. dijon mustard
1/2 t. coarse salt, such as Bulls Bay Salt Works Red Mash salt
Black pepper to taste

𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒
Combine all ingredients and whip together for a wonderful dipping sauce.