How Native familes make salt at one of Hawaii's last remaining salt patches

A salt patch on the island of Kauai is one of the last remaining locations in all of Hawaii where sacred salt is made by Native Hawaiian families following methods that are several centuries old. This sacred salt can only be traded or given away. It can never be sold. Climate change, air pollution and littering by tourists and visitors to the neighboring beach are all threats to this practice. Members of the 22 families who continue this tradition and fighting to keep these threats at bay and pass on this sacred practice to future generations.