Microgreens: A Guide to Growing Nutrient-Packed Greens

by Eric Franks, Jasmine Richardson

Overview

Perk up your garden, your cooking, and your health with this “comprehensive look at microgreens”—from arugula to Tokyo Bekana—includes recipes (City Bitty Farm).

Dubbed a culinary buzzword by National Public Radio, microgreens—vegetables harvested soon after sprouting—have become one of the hottest food trends. With simple instruction, Microgreens teaches how to plant, grow, and harvest microgreens from one’s own garden. The small amount of space needed to grow microgreens—a porch, patio, deck, or balcony will do—allows anyone to easily incorporate them into their daily meals, and the greens’ nutritional potency make them a must-eat in a healthy diet. Includes the microgreens: amaranth, arugula, basil, beet, broccoli, celery, chard, cilantro, cress, endive, mustard, pac choi, pea, purple cabbage, radish, and Tokyo Bekana.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781423610304
Publisher:	Smith, Gibbs Publisher
Publication date:	05/29/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	467,639
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Eric Frank and Jasmine Richardson reside in Big Sur, California, where they own Microcosm Microgreens. Eric Frank and Jasmine Richardson reside in Big Sur, California, where they own Microcosm Microgreens.

Read an Excerpt

The purpose of Microgreens is to give you an avenue to the joy of growing and eating your own food. We can imagine a time when every rooftop, windowsill, and small yard is alive with trays of microgreens. Even people driving campers across the country could be growing a tray in their window while germinating another under the bed. You will find that growing greens is surprisingly easy. We will show you each of the simple steps it takes to grow, harvest, and prepare your own microgreens.

Table of Contents

9 Foreword

11 Introduction

15 Why Microgreens

25 Health and Microgreens

33 Materials

45 How-to-Grow Ten-Step Process

63 Individual Crops

115 Composting

129 Recipes: Food as Art

169 Troubleshooting

177 Recommended Books and Resources

185 Sources

190 Index