Guiding Ethics

Silver + Salmon is a slow made silversmithing studio born from the desire for simplicity and sustainability. From working with my hands as a way to create meaningful self employment to making decisions to support a more sustainable planet, Silver + Salmon allows me to be creative while working towards something greater than myself. A little hobby that started as a creative inquiry on the top of my freezer with limited tools turned into this awesome business that lets my ethics take the drivers seat.

My goal is to offer an enticing alternative to fast fashion jewellery using materials that already exist. Each piece that leaves my bench is made slowly from post consumer recycled precious metals sourced in North America. Working this way allows me to give a new life to existing precious metals at the end of their consumer life cycle, keeping the circular economy going. The choice to only source and use recycled precious metals means that Silver + Salmon doesn’t contribute to new mining, which often includes untraceable and harmful environmental and labour practices.

Similarly, by working with up-cycled sea glass or repurposed/recycled stones I can rest assured that everything is traceable and i’m not unknowingly contributing to human rights violations from unethical mining practices when it comes to precious and semi precious stones. An unexpected bonus is that working in this way allows me that time to get out of the shop, step away from business mode and enjoy the beaches of Haida Gwaii looking for glass with my dog George or peruse thrift stores for stones to recycle with my hunny.

Currently, Silver + Salmon donates 5% of annual sales to Swiilawiid Sustainability Society, a non-profit organization on Haida Gwaii focused on sustainability in communities, lands, air and waters of Haida Gwaii.

Silver + Salmon is jewellery made slow, sustainably.