Welcome to the weekly oh! nènè microgreens update, where we talk about the latest information on our microgreens journey. We started experimenting with microgreens in March 2021 and found the process fascinating. As we discover the wonderful world of microgreens, we feel inclined to share with you our progress.
The shift to organic seeds
The idea of growing food for other people is daunting because you know you have a direct impact on people’s health. At the same time, there is a direct impact on the environment, and we want to be as conscious as possible about how our actions will affect the world. It only makes sense to us to use organic seeds in our microgreens farm and not conventional seeds. If you want to know more about what actions we are taking to reduce our impact and help the environment, please check our impact page.
This week, we received our first batch of organic seeds straight from Italy. We got Arugula (Rocket), Broccoli Calabrese (read the difference between Calabrese and Raab), and Radish China Rose. We’re very excited about this first order because it involved very little plastic waste.
Optimizing space
Another update from this week is that we found a way to optimize our rack space by simply turning our trays by 90 degrees, which allowed us to set three trays per shelf on a rack instead of two as we had before. A simple solution that gives us a 50% increase in possibilities on one rack.
Getting a new rack
We are getting ready to start our business full steam ahead! Since we only had a small rack, we found a new rack that can fit up to 20 trays simultaneously after lots of research. We are thrilled with the addition of this rack to our microgreens farm! The rack we found ticked almost all the boxes for the requirements we had, like, for example, steel with anti-corrosion for durability, little plastic involved, wheels for mobility, and five shelves for space optimization.
Microgreens update
We finally enjoyed eating basil microgreens, and we loved it! We aren’t sure we want to produce basil on a larger scale, but we will continue to grow it for our family. Because we got our new organic seeds, we wanted to test them right away, so we started a tray per new seed a couple of days ago. So far, so good, and we will need to wait a bit before seeing the results.
Thank you for your time, and until next week!
