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Eat More Sprouts & Micros
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CATCHING UP
It's been a few weeks - so we want to drop in and say HI! We'll also remind you to eat your Sprouts and Microgreens. Life is zany (feel free to substitute your adjective of choice) and busy for most. Gardens and farmers markets are pouring out food. There are So Many vegetables and fruits in season! It isn't easy to add something to such a full plate - but remember - Sprouts and Micros are the most powerful foods of all - and they're so tiny. There's always room for Sprouts =;^)
Our garden season has been eventful as usual. To me (Gil) gardening is partly there to remind me that failure is a part of life. It has been full of great crops, complete failures, bugs, fungus, flowers, and dozens of Tomatoes (thanks to our greenhouse) - and battles with the critters - who have eaten more than half of our sweet corn! That we can even grow ears of sweet corn in our foggy part of San Francisco is close to amazing. It's so very hard to see it enjoyed by roving night creatures who don't even clean up after themselves. We want it. Good and bad - that's gardening. Our Basil is looking quite good and our Broccoli was quite prolific the spring. Most of our onions failed to bulb. Very odd. Lasts years crop was gangbusters. But hey it's all good - and we have more room for sprouts!
HEALTHY JUICERS ARE FINALLY BACK
We all know supply chains are busted everywhere. It's been 2 years since the maker of the best entry level Juicer ever could supply us - but now we can once again offer the Healthy Juicer and we are told supply will flow freely henceforth.
A manual juicer is the way we started. As juice became a bigger part of our life we upgraded - twice - - but there are still times we use the Healthy Juicer because it's so easy to use and clean - and it requires little counter space.
If you are growing Wheat Grass - or any Grass - the only way to get the divine nectar out of it is with an extracting juicer. You can drink the grass straight or mix it with other things. Wheat Grass juice is closer in composition to human blood than anything else - so it's no wonder you feel its power.
The Healthy Juicer clamps to a counter and you turn a crank while feeding your freshly cut Grass into it. The color of freshly squeezed Grass juice is absolutely stunning. Grow your own Grass - and juice it too.
NOT ENTIRELY HUMAN FAMILY MEMBERS
Here are some new pics of our beloved 4-leggers. They are all well and healthy.
We took Ira to his favorite lake in Golden Gate Park on his birthday. He and Sam are the best of pals.
Gus likes to sleep in the open window. He has his head on his paw. Precious Gus.
Django is so very flexible
Ira and his buddy from EcoPawz, Wiley during a work break.
Ira the adorable.
Here are a couple essentials for those new to the world of Indoor Farming...
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SPROUTS AND MICROGREENS
To us the difference is that with Sprouts we grow with nothing but water and we eat the entire crop (with the possible exception of hulls and roots that grow out the bottom of our Stainless Steel Sprouters) - and they are alive when we eat them. Microgreens are grown on a medium and we harvest them by cutting them just above that medium - at which point they move from alive to not. Raw, great, delicious - just not alive.
While I'm on this subject I need to explain why we have two different names for the same seed - like Broccoli Sprouts and Broccoli Microgreens. This is the same seed. The difference is that each crop has its own page - you go to the Broccoli Sprouts page to learn how to grow the seed into Sprouts and you go to the Broccoli Microgreens page to learn how to grow it into Micros.
This seed will also grow a full sized - which is like 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide - Broccoli plant in a garden - given the proper climate and encouragement.
SEED STORAGE
If you don't yet know how to get the longest life for your seeds - and prevent pests - visit our Seed Storage page. The best way to store seeds is in the freezer, but do not use the refrigerator as its humidity fluctuations can harm seeds. There's a bit more to it - so perhaps just visit the page =;-)
Grow to Live - Live to Grow.
Be well and happy.
Gil + Lori
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Sproutpeople.org is an encyclopedic resource of our creation - for indoor farmers of Sprouts, Microgreens, and Grass. It is so enormous that it gives some the impression that we are a big business. The reality is that we are basically 2 people who eat and breath Sproutpeople - and 2 part-time helpers (one being our son). Our site has been online since 1996. It's the employee that allows us to serve all of you.
Every Seed and Mix we offer has a profoundly detailed page devoted to it. Those pages feature two sets of Growing Instructions (Brief for the experienced and Detailed for the not yet experienced), a Video, Photos of the crop growing day-by-day, Recipes, Crop Specific Notes, Nutrition Info, and quite a bit more. Each of our Supplies also has a detailed page.
Our vast content is organized with Tabs (on computer) and Pull-Down Menus (on mobile devices). Click/Choose, for example Detailed Instructions on the page you go to when you click any of the pictures surrounding this text - and you will be presented Seriously Detailed Instructions. Click around. Growing Photos. Notes. Recipes. Please let us share what we know.
We survive by selling on the internet, but we live to educate anyone who wants to learn about growing sprouts and microgreens. Learning is what the internet was actually built for, so we're really just doing our part.
Please enjoy sproutpeople.org
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