What Greens? Microgreens!

Picture this: Your setting up your booth at the downtown farmers market. You have your tent set up, a nice green table cloth on the table, and a wooden sign proclaiming who you are. Next thing to do is to put your product on that nice table. So here you go placing rows and rows of microgreens in clamshells and now your probably wondering the same thing that 75% of people think about when they wander past our booth. What are microgreens?

Microgreens are seedlings of edible vegetables and herbs. They are usually more nutritious then their bigger counterparts and easier to digest as well.

They can be rich in vitamins, phytochemicals, and free radical scavengers. They often come in a vareity of color and texture.

The picture up above is our spring salad mix. It has red clover, alfalfa, broccoli, and radish.

Microgreens can be grown in different ways. Some people use regular potting soil. Some use grow mats that can be used again and again. We use coco coir as a medium that is both more sanitary than potting soil and more productive and resilient than grow mats.

Coco coir is made from coconut husk and is great as a growing medium. It retains moisture and provides a good growing enviroment.

We than plant our seed and wait for things to grow!

Here are some pea microgreens starting their journey.

We like to grow pea, sunflower, radish, broccoli, our spring salad mix, and sometimes we experiment with other varieties. We have cilantro and basil growing as experiments at the moment. Both are notoriously hard.

You can use microgreens in many ways. We like them on sandwiches and tacos the best. You can also add them to salads, smoothies, soups, and stirfrys. Once I made a coleslaw with the broccoli microgreens! It was yummy!

In conclusion, Microgreens are very nutritious and easily added into your meal!

Thanks for reading!