🌱 A New How-To Video

sprouting broccoli in a jar is finally here

Broccoli Sprouts showing off their Root Hairs. Learn more about these and countless other aspects of Sprouting Broccoli in a Jar - in our brand new video.

SPROUTING BROCCOLI IN A JAR

We make our videos for beginners.

Sprouting is easy - but until you know how to actually do it - it can be daunting. For that reason we show every step in (sometimes painful) detail. Early this year we noticed that many new customers were buying Jars and Screen Lids - likely due to cost during this difficult economic time - and since sprouting Broccoli is more difficult to do in a Jar than in our Stainless Steel Sprouter or the Easy Sprout Sprouter - we felt a detailed how-to video was needed.

I (Gil) promised you this video in March. Due to an amazing slew of technical difficulties it is only now finished and viewable on our YouTube channel. The irony - that we have been waiting the same length of time for our website upgrade to be completed - is not lost on me. Perhaps this will help get that done - though we’re not holding our breath.

We hope you find the video useful. You can get to it by clicking the picture above - or try this one…

Ruby lives with our wonderful customer - Miriam in Georgia

A SALE FOR OUR BIRD FRIENDS

Our Bird Mixes are on sale - for 15% off - through October 1st.

These mixes are the most complex we offer, and since we mix our seeds by hand they take a lot of time to make. It’s always a challenge to have all the seeds well stocked so that we can keep the mixes in-stock - - but we do currently have them all - so now’s the time for a sale.

I have asked for pictures over the years - and many of you have been so kind as to share images of your loved ones with us. I’ve not been good about filing these - and so I’m only going to share a couple more for now. Someday - when our kids are running Sproutpeople - Lori and I hope to have the time to compile all of them and share them back. We absolutely Love being a part of all of your lives!

This is Cecil - or Finley, who lives in Hawaii with our beloved customer Louise.

Coco shares Melaine - who lives in California with several other wondrous winged ones.

I can see that we’ll need to get a lot more pictures and information from you bird folks - and I’ll need to start a special file. I feel like we owe you so much more than a sale. Thank you for sharing your loved ones with us! Please send each and every one of them our love. I’ll be thinking of them while I mix your seeds.

All you cat, dog, tortoise, guinea pig, and everyone else customers - your turn will come too. I’ll try to get some pictures you’ve sent together for a future newsletter.

OUR FURRY FAMILY & FRIENDS

I really should be showing your family members - but until I get my filing system together - here’s some more of our boys and some of Ira’s pals too.

Ira posing on a boulder at our local dog park.

Ira and his occasional friend, Speck at the park.

This big fella is Valentino. Ira has adored Val since he - Ira - was a puppy. Whenever Val gets to the park - or as soon as Ira realizes he’s arrived - which isn’t frequent - the little guy sprints over to him. Like Ira’s other big friends, Val knows how little he is - and he treats him accordingly. It’s not really playtime - it’s just mutual joy they share.

Chauncey is another of Ira’s big friends. It’s difficult to capture the two of them in a picture due to the huge difference in their size. The same is true of Valentino, above. I can’t tell you how many hundreds of failed pictures I have taken. I lifted this one from a video.

The same day as the picture above - Ira and Chauncey met three times on one walk. I included this one for scale mostly. Chauncey is a gentle giant.

Gus and Ira laying back to back in the afternoon sun.

Django is very curious about that gorgeous cat he sees.

Ira with his ears down. Like Chester before him - he tends to be on high alert - with at least one ear at attention. We all love when he chooses to be so calm and comfortable.

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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
 

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.

In addition to a section that teaches the Basics of Sprouting and Growing, a goodly section of Recipes, a bunch of Videos, and a whole lot more -

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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