09/16/2026
A Retirement Plan 20+ Years in the Making
For more than 20 years, my mom has traveled across the United States doing something she loves—hunting for fossils, crystals, and other pieces of natural history.
What started as an adventure became a collection, and eventually, a retirement plan.
Every trip brought home something new. Fossils with stories millions of years old. Crystals formed deep within the earth. Little pieces of the places she explored and the history she discovered along the way.
When it came time for retirement, the plan was simple: keep traveling, keep exploring, and eventually share those treasures with others.
That's where The Salty Barn comes in.
Rather than letting her collection sit tucked away, we've brought it into the Barn. Now, when you take home one of her fossils or crystals, you're not just buying a piece of nature—you are helping support the next chapter of her adventures.
Her retirement plan didn't end. It became part of The Salty Barn.
So when you find something special in her collection, take a moment to wonder where it came from, how old it might be, and what adventure brought it home.
And maybe you'll take home a little piece of that adventure with you.
