Tami Purdue didn’t grow up on a farm or have a background in growing food. For twenty years, she worked as a legal manager for a prominent law firm in Raleigh, North Carolina, working 60-80 hours a ...

Farmers are now offering tiny baby seedlings of familiar plants, called microgreens, with chefs promoting them as a popular addition to their menus. They’re even appearing in recipes prepared by your ...

If you were tasked with deciding how to feed astronauts fresh, healthy vegetables in outer space, how would you do it? This exact question was posed to Ibrahim Ayad, founder of Simply Fresh ...

Luke Downey’s interest in farming started at a young age, with a game predownloaded on the family computer. The game, “John Deere: Drive Green” — which, at the end of the day, Luke said, was just an ...

This Falls Twp. farmer keeps his crops small. Joe Stredny, owner of Wild Notion Farms, grows microgreens, or young seedlings of edible vegetables and herbs. Unlike larger vegetables that take weeks or ...

Valerie Mancinas’ business, Fresh Start Microgreens, grew out of a desire to feed her children healthy food. “The thing I usually say is that broccoli is 40% more nutritious like this,” she said.

With their cotyledon leaves packed full of flavor and nutrition, microgreens are not every farmers market shopper’s usual staple. Luckily for us, if you stroll down the producer aisle of the Napa ...

Although microgreens are becoming more popular, among consumers and restaurants, growers in the Wilmington area still say that education is an important part of what they do. “I could talk to people ...

Pine River Micro Greens sells exactly what you would think: small, leafy vegetables grown in the Pine River Valley. A “love for plants and growing things” led Tanya Feely to start growing microgreens ...

A seed was planted — literally and figuratively — at the Bonney Lake Food Bank earlier this year. About nine months after, a long-lasting partnership with a local microgreens farmer grew from it, and ...

Everyone knows that adding more fresh vegetables to your diet is a great way to improve your overall health and well-being. Eating vegetables that you’ve grown with your own two hands is even better.