NEIL and Jane Seymour of Mount Zero Biodynamic Olive Grove were interviewed on ABC Landline Sunday 19th July about the development of the pink salt from the pink lake in Victoria’s Wimmera area. One of their latest ventures has been working with the lake’s traditional owners, the Jardwadjali community, to hand harvest a small amount of salt from the lake each year.

In 1994 the Seymours bought their farm close to the Grampians National Park, it was already established with an olive grove. To make their farming more sustainable they ventured into growing chick peas and lentils and then Jane fell in love with the nearby pink salt lake, so she set about getting the approvals for a trial harvest of the salt in a venture with the lake’s traditional owners. Salt has been harvested here since 1860 but ceased twenty years ago.

In the ABC Landline interwiew, Sandy Hodge of the Barenji Gadjin Land Council talks about having a tradional owner branding attached to the marketing process so it is clearly seen as a partnership with the traditional owners.

The pink salt is harvested in summer. It has a beautiful flavour, rich in minerals and the pink colour is the beta carotene produced by live algae.

As Jane Seymour concludes in the interview, “we are members of Slow Food. The definition for slow food is food that is good, fair and clean. Now, the salt covers all those categories”