Salt Farm Tours
Have you ever shaken salt on your fish and chips while sitting at the beach and thought “How is sea salt made?”
Have you ever purchased a bottle of refreshing still or sparkling water and drunk it while looking out at the wide-open ocean and wondered “Why don’t we drink sea water?”
Well now you can discover the answer to those two questions and many more.
The Taipa Salt Pig and Oceanwater are perhaps Northlands best kept food producing secrets. Located in Taipa both businesses take sea water and using nothing but the power of the sun, a wee bit of patience and a whole lot of love they produce two products essential to life itself.
Super tasty sea salt AND Thirst quenching drinking water!
The tours
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The basic visit takes place at The Taipa Salt Pig and Oceanwater’s solar powered water farms.
Enjoy a wander around Oceanwaters solar powered water farm that turns seawater into fresh drinking water. Visit their solar powered bottling plant and have a taste of New Zealand’s first solar powered water. Then move to the Taipa Salt Pig’s solar powered salt farm and discover how salt is made using ancient techniques.
Finish your visit in our gift store and put your visit fee toward grabbing some of the best salt and water you will find anywhere.
$15 per person with your $15 redeemable at our onsite salt store.
Children under the age of 16 free.
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Your tour starts at Cable Bay Beach on the shores of Doubtless Bay. Help the team to bucket run seawater into transportation tanks and drive back to The Taipa Salt Pig and Oceanwater’s solar powered salt and water farms.
Enjoy a wander around Oceanwater’s solar powered water farm that turns seawater into fresh drinking water. Visit their solar powered bottling plant and have a taste of New Zealand’s first solar powered water.
Then move to the Taipa Salt Pig’s solar powered salt farm and discover how salt is made using ancient techniques.
Finish your visit in our gift store and put $15 from your visit fee toward grabbing some of the best salt and water you will find anywhere.
$25 per person with your $15 redeemable at our onsite salt store.
Children under the age of 16 free.
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Your tour starts at Cable Bay Beach on the shores of Doubtless Bay. Help the team to bucket run seawater into transportation tanks and drive back to The Taipa Salt Pig and Oceanwater’s solar powered salt and water farms.
Enjoy a wander around Oceanwater’s solar powered water farm that turns seawater into fresh drinking water. Visit their solar powered bottling plant and have a taste of New Zealand’s first solar powered water.
Then move to the Taipa Salt Pig’s solar powered salt farm and discover how salt is made using ancient techniques.
Once the tour is finished make a batch of your own unique flavoured salt or a salt based foot scrub which you get to take home.
Finish your visit in our gift store and put $15 from your visit fee toward grabbing some of the best salt and water you will find anywhere.
$50 per person with your $15 redeemable at our onsite salt store.
Children under the age of 16 free.