LABOUR OF LOVE
The phrase “salt of the earth” denotes a very good, honest person, and speaking to Peter Burt of Newfoundland Salt Company in Bonavista, Newfoundland, we realize the term couldn’t be more fitting.
Burt and his partner, Robin Crane, make salt in Bonavista and sell it to chefs and retailers across the country. “Robin is from St. John’s, and my family is from Clarenville, about an hour away,” says Burt. “We moved here a year ago.”
Burt and Crane started the business back in 2012, when Burt was a chef at Raymonds in St. John’s. “I was making salt out of Raymonds on the two days we were closed, and selling it at the farmers’ market and a couple of stores,” says Burt.
Eventually, that wore them out and they decided that they needed to give it up because it was consuming Burt’s days off, or they had to go full tilt at it. “So we sat back and really explored the idea,” says Burt. “We developed a business plan, put it all together, and that’s how we ended up here. We moved to Bonavista a year
