Best Microgreens to Grow at Home

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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As a successful founder of Living Earth Farm, Jonah has learned which microgreens are best for growing at home. In fact, he’s dedicated a portion of his business to educating people about this very topic. From red sorrel to cilantro, Jonah talks the choicest greens you can cultivate. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3txqBMU Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3TQ8GeR Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/4aNJcVo EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/48qw5Iu Learn More: Microgreens Connect With Jonah Krochmalnek: Jonah Krochmalnek transformed his love and passion for gardening into one of Canada’s largest microgreens farms, Living Earth Farm. Driven by the purpose of feeding people the absolute most nutritious greens, Jonah's journey is a testament to the transformative power of growing food. Through personalized consultations and impactful coaching, Jonah is on a mission to share his wealth of knowledge, helping gardeners and farmers across the globe thrive. Making delicious, simple food accessible to communities everywhere. Microgreens Course Jonah’s Microgreen Podcast Free Microgreens Mastery Growing Guide Instagram YouTube TikTok Linkedin Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you're trying to grow micro greens at home for yourself, do not fear.
0:18.4	This is not all about starting a micro greens business.
0:20.3	We're here with Jonah Karkmalnick, who is the founder of Living Earth Farm, one of the largest microgreens farms in Canada, if not the largest, and I'm assuming you still grow these at home and maybe enjoy them for yourself, friends and family
0:34.2	Jonah, or are you like kind of micro-greened out?
0:37.1	No, I'm actually growing some upstairs right now.
0:39.6	I bought a bunch of seed and have a whole set up. the education side I want to show people how to grow at home, how easy it is, how easy it can be, and then show them the differences between things like supersoil versus using hemp mats and
0:53.2	things like that. So I'm doing all sorts of experiments right now that I'll have content on my
0:57.0	YouTube channel just kind of showing what is possible, what's available, and what people can do easily at home.
1:04.0	Awesome.
1:05.0	Cool.
1:06.0	I mean I can talk about when I started.
1:08.0	I bought sort of like a random variety pack.
1:10.0	It had bread, garnet amaranth, it had a spicy and maybe a non-spicy mix.
1:15.6	It had radish, things like that.
1:18.6	What would you recommend for someone to get started growing macaroons at home?
1:22.3	As far as ease maybe, maybe even flavor.
1:24.4	Yeah for sure.
1:25.6	So I was in the same boat as you.
1:27.3	I just bought everything under the sun, which I feel like a lot of people do
1:30.8	because they're just excited to see what's what they can grow. But some are
1:34.8	definitely way more challenging than others and some are less viable of a crop in a
1:40.7	indoor environment sort of thing.
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