Friday I harvested my first batch of microgreens for sale, both pea shoots (top photo) and sunflower shoots (bottom photo). I have been experimenting with growing peas and sunflowers as sprouts and shoots for a couple of months now, and after many unsuccessful attempts, I finally have a workable system.
The good thing about raising sprouts and micro-greens is that if I grow too many, we love the healthy little greens in our sandwiches, salads and soups, and if I end up with more than we can eat, the chickens, ducks and turkeys also love them.
The downside of raising sprouts and micro-greens is that they need care twice a day--they are as demanding as milking a dairy cow!
3 comments:
Micro-greens, how fascinating! I hope they sell well for your farm. Any learned tricks that you'd be willing to share?
If you could write more about your growing set up and about where to find seeds in bulk (to keep costs down), that would be great!
Sandy
I promise to write a more comprehensive post about growing micro-greens very soon!
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