THE GREAT SALT

Lion Salt Works, Northwich - February to November 2019, at the invitation of FEAST journal

Fairland worked for nine months with Lion Salt Works and FEAST Journal to explore how the salt industry has shaped both our culinary traditions and the local environment.
A series of workshops with Lion Salt Works volunteers and the public, was followed by a dinner for all involved. Using local wild food, Salt Works pickles and a bit of theatre, the evening was a celebratory feast of salty discovery, revealing the histories of the salt formed landscape of mid-Cheshire. It featured a saltscape of salt shakers, readings on salt tourism and halophytes, and salt themed musical accompaniment from Chester folk band The Time Bandits. The final stage of the project was the publication of FEAST: Salt, an online journal edited by Laura Mansfield and Fairland Collective.