Saltwrights was officially founded by Ben and Frances Jackson in 2024 but in truth, the story started many years before. Keen on the outdoors and foraging in hedgerows and woodland, Ben would make Christmas and birthday gifts from the rich Norfolk countryside. 

Running out of ideas one year, he struck upon the idea of producing sea salt. Travelling to Holkham one day he collected five litres of fresh Norfolk sea water to boil on his hob at home. The first attempt was a disaster, realising that the process needed to be far slower. Trying again he made a passable flaky sea salt. After looking at the gas bill, he realised however that it was unsustainable as a repeatable adventure. 

Skip forward many years later Ben and Frances were married and Frances having just sold her hospitality business was looking for her next business venture. It was then, Ben suggested that with his brief experience of salt making he thought there might be room for Norfolk's own sea salt, but it would need to be on a sustainable footprint.