Starting a Microgreens Farm

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 13 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/47uR2Ay Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/41UIm5u Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3RRoewa EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3S8Bw83 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We're going back in time this week.
0:04.7	We're going back in time this week my friends to some of my early beginnings in
0:17.0	gardening which would be not hydroponics which I talk about all the time but
0:20.4	actually micro-greens we have Jonah Krocmanek on the show,
0:25.3	one of the largest micro-green farms in Canada.
0:28.8	Is the founder of Living Earth Farm.
0:30.6	Great to having to show Jonah.
0:32.4	I'm very excited to be here.
0:34.0	It's an honor.
0:35.0	Hey, likewise.
0:36.0	I mean, I did not realize that your farm was one of the largest in Canada,
0:40.0	but maybe we start at the beginning
0:42.0	and how you got into this.
0:43.0	Sounds like we kind of got into it at the same time.
0:45.0	Yeah, yeah, so I finished school in 2012 and kind of went down a more traditional path of studying finance and business and that's what seemed like the what made sense it was the you know what most people do and as a teenager I always loved gardening my dad had a garden and I was able to try like a real
1:06.3	tomato and see like wow this is crazy compared to what you can buy at a grocery store
1:11.5	so I had that passion pretty early on but didn't really know how to turn it into an actual career with farming because it just didn't seem very viable.
1:20.0	So when I finished school, I got a I hated it an office job and then I quit after a week and it was like what do I really want to do with my life and had like almost like a little bit of an existential crisis and decided like I love growing food I really want to do something to this so I volunteered at a local farm in Toronto and they were growing
1:39.3	my Koreans in their greenhouse and that's when the bells really started a click.
1:43.4	I was like, oh, I started to crunch the numbers
1:46.1	and be like, whoa, you can actually
1:48.1	make a viable business doing this.
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