Microgreen

You have something very exciting that's happening this fall, a few exciting things.

But the first exciting thing is you're an author of your first book being published, Microgreens and Shoots.

Yeah.

Tell us about

But I guess part of the farm walk is also thinking about like what's the next crop we need to plant? What do we need to rip out? The way we make it as market farmers is succession planting.

So we're every two weeks, pretty much every week on the farm, we're planting something, even in the winter.

Microgreens, baby greens, all winter long.

So it's an interesting balance of being super present.

So we have this cycle from a seed to this adult plant.

So it goes through a sprout phase, which is between two and five days, and then it goes through the next phase, which is the microgreen, right? Microgreens, you've probably seen them in the grocery store or at the farmer's market, but it takes 10 to 14 days to make a microgreen.

Then you have baby greens, like the baby green lettuce leaf, which is between 15 to 40 days.

And then the adult vegetable takes between 40 to 150 days.

[upbeat music] Today, we have the pleasure of welcoming Corinne Hansch to the Growing for Market Podcast.

Corinne runs Lovin' Mama Farm in Amsterdam, New York, where they grow vegetables, flowers, and microgreens.

More to the point, Corinne is the author of the brand-new book, Microgreens and Shoots: How to Select, Grow, Harvest, and Package Nutrient-Dense Greens for Profit.

Corinne had the cover story in the September Growing for Market Magazine about how to plan and grow year-round income with microgreens, and there's an excerpt from the book in the October magazine, so you can get a good idea of the book from those articles in the last two magazines.

So without further ado, welcome to the podcast, Corinne.

So microgreens are just one piece of the puzzle, but they're an important piece of the puzzle that can really help bring financial stability to your farm.

Yes.

Microgreens can be part of that triple bottom line that people talk about.