Brady Ryan’s business is like a 5th-grade science project—on steroids.
Instead of making rock candy crystals in a glass jar with sugar water, he’s growing salt crystals from seawater in 14 troughs about 6 inches deep. They are housed in large hoop greenhouses that rely on solar energy for evaporation. He’s using water from the Salish Sea, which surrounds San Juan Island just north of Seattle.
