Today we're talking about business baby Kevin from Epic Gardening here. I've gotten a lot of questions

recently this one's from Mary L on Instagram she wants to know a little bit more about the business side of

gardening and the different ways that you could make a living in the world of

gardening. Now you could expand gardening out to the world of plants and that

really does expand the career options or

businesses that are open to you but as far as the ones that I've specifically

done I will talk about those and then I will go into the ones that my friends

have done and then I will go into the ones that my friends have done and then I might pontificate a little bit if you will allow me about some ideas that I have that people could maybe experiment with that I have not done nor know anyone who is doing right so let's go ahead and kick it off the first thing is I used to grow and sell micro-greens

So many of you might know this story already but back in 2013 or so I bought a kit of

microgreens just standard kit just for fun and as I grew them out I looked at them

and I said wow these are beautiful micro greens let me go ahead and

try to sell them so it took a while and it took a little bit of you know confidence to do

this but I walked around in San Diego and some of the nicer areas and just walked in and pitched these restaurants and eventually I did get one to say yes and surprise surprise they were actually one of the best restaurants on the street so I had them as clients about, I would say six to nine months or so, before I decided to stop doing that business because other things were going on. I wanted to travel and do other things with my life, but just a little bit of the breakdown of that

business what I did is I would take orders two weeks to three weeks before they

needed them so I could grow them fresh to order I delivered mine cut so you

some people will deliver the trays and they'll let the chef cut at the

restaurant this restaurant wanted me to deliver them cut in smaller containers so I bought some food

safe containers from I I think, like

Cisco or one of those big companies, and I would deliver about three to four ounces

of each microgreen variety they wanted once per week, which ended up being somewhere around three to

four pounds of micro greens and I priced the micro greens on a per ounce basis of

anywhere from three to six dollars per ounce depending on the variety.

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