Traditional Sea Salt Harvesting in Bali
Salt harvesting is a labour intensive process. The farmers make their way to and from the ocean with wooden or leather buckets weighing heavily on bamboo poles.
They then splash the seawater in a rhythmic almost hypnotising motion across raked sand.
The process of farming, or harvesting, Bali sea salt is similar to the Agehama salt making techniques found in Japan, notably the Noto Peninsula.
They does this several times before letting the sand dry under the sun.
When dry, they rakes the top layer of sand (now holding salt crystals after the water has evaporated) and collects it together, then dumps it all in a huge wooden box inside of their workshop.
They then pours more sea water into the large box, which seeps through the salted-sand, increasing the concentration of salt in the water. The highly salt-concentrated water then pours out from the bottom of the box.
When they has enough salt water, they will pour it into hollowed out tree trunks which they uses as drying racks. Here, on a sunny day, the water evaporates leaving salt crystals for their to scrape up, package and finally sell.
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