About
A coastal concept being figured out in public.
Saltacre is the other half of a working life — the part that points away from screens and toward water. This site is a placeholder while the actual work gets sorted.
Background
A long way from a CI pipeline.
I have spent my career inside cloud infrastructure — landing zones, networking, the IaC pipelines that hold them together. The work is good and I am not done with it. But it lives entirely on a screen.
Saltacre is the other direction. A coastal concept, built around oysters and the kind of small, slow work where the deliverable is a thing you can hold. Right now it is mostly an intention. The site exists because the domain does, and because intentions get sharper when you have to write them down.
Principles
Slow, small, close to home.
- Slow. The work runs on tide and season. A cup oyster takes two or three years to grow. The pace is the point.
- Small. One bay, one operator, one truck. Growth is not the goal — staying right-sized is.
- Close to home. Sold direct, eaten locally, traceable to the patch of water it came from. Wholesale loses what makes this worth doing.
- In public. This page is honest about what is and is not here yet. As the work fills in, the site does too.
Get in touch
Something to talk about?
Oysters, leases, gear, sourcing, a similar project of your own — drop a note. Replies are slower than a business inbox; the site is run on coastal time deliberately.