Our Story
We started because we
couldn't find the good stuff.
Timber & Salt was founded in 2020 in a kitchen in Prince Edward County, Ontario. The grocery store wasn't cutting it. Farmers' markets were seasonal. We started calling producers directly. That habit became a business.
The Founders
Maya & Oluwaseun Adeyemi
Maya spent ten years as a line cook in Toronto restaurants — the kind where the sourcing of every ingredient was a decision, not a default. When she left the kitchen to raise a family, she found she couldn't replicate what those restaurant kitchens had access to. The good olive oil. The actual mustard. The salt that wasn't table salt dressed up in a nice jar.
Oluwaseun had a logistics background from a decade in supply chain. When Maya started hand-delivering condiment boxes to friends, he recognized a distribution problem worth solving. They spent 2021 building direct relationships with fourteen producers. In 2022, they shipped their first Timber & Salt subscription boxes.
"Every product in a Timber & Salt box is something we use in our kitchen. That's the only filter. If we wouldn't reach for it, we don't carry it."
Today, Timber & Salt works with 38 producers across Canada and the United States. Every producer is visited before listing. No exceptions.
What We Stand For
We contact producers directly and visit before listing. Distributors, brokers, and resellers are not in the supply chain. If we can't talk to the person who made it, we don't carry it.
When a producer scales past what small-batch means, the relationship ends — amicably. We're not interested in the version that can be made at volume. The constraint is the point.
Every product page names the producer, their location, and their method. We don't use vague copy like "artisan crafted" without a name behind it.
A subscription box that ships the same thing month after month is just a recurring order. We curate every box as if it's the first impression. The surprise is the product.
Pause for a month, cancel before the next shipment, change your box frequency — all from your account, no email required. We earn the subscription every month.
The box is kraft board. The inserts are recycled cotton. The ice packs are salt-water-filled and curbside recyclable. The product is worth protecting properly.
The Producers
38 makers.
One standard.
Every producer on our platform has been visited in person. We document sourcing methods, production volume, and environmental practices before a product ships in a Timber & Salt box.
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