How to Grow Microgreens Like a Pro

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

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🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Starting your own microgreens business may be easier than you think! A few hundred dollars, and high quality soil mixes are a good place to begin. Follow that up with the best practices outlined in this episode, and you’ve got a solid foundation for good microgreen production. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4aNJImi Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3tK6awa Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/47y2r2M EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3tHElEE 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	Well, we have shared quite a bit about micro Greens this week with Jonah Krocmanek, who's the
0:17.9	founder of Living Earth Farm, but one thing we haven't shared yet, Jonah, let's say someone's
0:21.3	just jazz, they're excited, they're down to grow and maybe even do a little business thing, but they actually don't know how to grow micro-greens, which we've both been in those shoes.
0:29.3	How would you advise someone to get started and I'll just let you rip here because you know better than anyone?
0:35.6	Yeah, for sure. So I can just go quickly over the growing process and what you really need to start.
0:40.9	So it's pretty simple, which is nice and it's not going to cost you a whole lot of money to get started.
0:45.2	So the things you need are growlites, somewhere to hang the growlites. So I usually recommend a shellman unit because you can grow a lot and store other stuff there but that's kind of optional.
0:54.1	You need the seed. So if you're going to grow the four easiest ones, pea, broccoli, kale and radish,
0:59.1	you can get those seed. You need the soil. So like I said, ProMix to H mix H.P the fertilizer the guy green and then the last two are
1:06.0	germanation trays with holes and germination trays without holes so that that's really the bare bones basic that you need. There are other kind of
1:15.2	optional items you can add in like a Wi-Fi timer so that you don't have to turn the
1:18.7	lights on and off every day. But that's all you really need to grow, which is nice.
1:23.0	So for a few hundred bucks, you can get everything you need and be able to grow a lot of
1:27.8	microns in a small amount of space, which is really cool.
1:31.4	In terms of the process, pretty much it would start with filling the
1:36.8	trays with the soil. So you would want to have some sort of bucket which most people
1:40.8	have at home or tote where you can mix the fertilizer with the soil which is
1:44.9	creating the super salt and making sure that you have a really high quality microrene product for you to consume
1:50.0	because you're going to get that benefit of having that higher nutrition.
1:53.0	So you're going to put that soil in the tray.
1:55.0	You're going to measure out the seed.
1:57.0	And again, in the growing guide, it has the step-by-step instructions
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