Old Salt Pickling Company

Old Salt Pickling Company operates out of Suite H at 402 Brevard Avenue, sharing a subdivided historic storefront with several other small businesses in the same building in Historic Cocoa Village. The company makes artisan pickles, mustards, and salts, the kind of small batch, shelf stable specialty food that has become a staple of farmers markets and independent food shops across the country over the past decade or so.

A pickling business built around house made mustards and infused salts, not just cucumbers, fits naturally into Cocoa Village’s growing lineup of specialty food retailers, which also includes a boutique wine shop and a cigar business with its own lounge. Rather than a general grocery item, artisan pickles and condiments of this kind are typically sold as a specific, considered purchase, whether for a gift basket or to round out a home kitchen with something not available at a supermarket. The suite format at 402 Brevard Avenue, shared with a vinyl record shop among other tenants, is typical of how several smaller Cocoa Village businesses divide up a single historic building to keep costs manageable.

Old Salt keeps a three day, Friday through Sunday schedule, open from 1 to 6 in the afternoon on Fridays and Saturdays and from noon to 5 on Sundays, a rhythm that lines up with when Cocoa Village typically sees its highest weekend foot traffic. The business is registered as pet friendly with the Historic Cocoa Village Main Street organization, so shoppers exploring the district with a dog are welcome to stop in.

The company can be reached at 321-266-5284 or by email at oldsaltpickles@protonmail.com, and it maintains its own website at oldsaltpickles.com for browsing current products. Its listing in the city’s official Historic Cocoa Village Main Street directory confirms it as an independently run specialty food business, and its weekend focused schedule makes it a natural stop for visitors making a dedicated weekend trip to Cocoa Village to shop the district’s food and gift retailers.

Small batch condiment makers like this one typically sell in limited quantities compared to a mass market brand, and a physical storefront gives Old Salt a way to let customers taste or ask about a product before buying, something impossible to do shopping a supermarket shelf. Sharing a building with other Brevard Avenue tenants also means a stop at Old Salt naturally connects to a broader walk through the same block of shops.