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We have been selling our microgreen growing kits for a while now and notice that there is a disturbing consistency to these sales. We know that the lack of reorders means one of two things. Either our buyer has gotten it and has started merrily down the road of microgreen farming OR the experiment failed and they have abandoned the kits. It has been an aim of MicrogreenFarm from the very beginning to get as many people adding this great source of fresh food to their diets and by not having many followup sales of media and seeds we have been trying to come up with a better way. We have decided to create a community of home microgreen growers to support efforts of individuals by creating a go to area for answers and supplies. This group will be called the MicrogreenFarm Growers Alliance. Entry into the alliance will be accomplished by purchasing our new Alliance membership and supply kit. The new kit features our standard hydroponic supplies to allow any grower to get going producing the best fresh microgreens for your family use. This kit has supplies for two initial crops of microgreens to get started. This is where the magic begins as purchase of these kits will include a password to our new members only Alliance website. The website will include discussion areas, tips, introduction of new items first and a monthly feature introducing a new variety or mix of seeds that can be purchased to grow in this basic kit. Members will also have access to the alliance store that will have supplies and special offers at discounts to our normal retail pricing.
This inclusive strategy is to foster active use of our microgreen products and ensure success for members. The website will go live this week and the initial member kits are now featured in our online store and are ready to ship. Join our new Alliance for MicrogreenFarm Growers now and start on your personal journey to the absolute freshest and most nutritious punch to your meals !!!
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Just wanted to share with you today something really spectacular that is happening with our Full Spectrum Sea Solids for Microgreens ... I had to cut these fellas today as they were TOO tall after 9 days .... just blew me away and you can see these are still microgreens as no true leaves are emerging yet. They taste like a daikon radish with a hint of salt. 
Would also like to share a hint from #ethel who found that you could harvest a portion of your tray, put the cover on it and place in refrigerator. This allows you to enjoy your fresh microgreens over an extended time very similar to our astounding shelf life we are getting in our live trays in the store. She has used this trick to coax three or four meals from the one tray and always obtaining the freshest you can get since the plants are still living.
A quick teaser for all you aspiring microgreen farmers out there, we will be unveiling a Microgreen of the Month Club that will give you access to great deals and a new featured crop each month. You will purchase your initial materials and then once a month after that have access to new seeds. The club will have a private website with tips, discussions and access to a members only store featuring discounted materials ... stay tuned this weekend for more info !!! When we first delivered our new LIVE trays we knew we had something special. We did not realize just how special our new techniques and containers were. Today marked 3 weeks exactly since I put the first trays in produce section of our local Down to Earth store. We removed this remaining tray not because it was going bad, but because it was going too good !!! The red arrow radishes had filled the container and was pushing the top like it wanted to escape ... Picture #1 shows the Red Arrow Microgreens that we delivered on Day 1. Picture #2 shows display in the store at about 10 days (the Red Arrow is front and center right under the Kohlrabi). Picture #3 is the tray after I took the top off to let the microgreens out today - 3 WEEKS to the day !!! WOW, unprecedented shelf life.
Note that the plants are still in microgreen stage and not yet with the true leaves emerging so the taste and nutritional level are at maximum levels. Our organic sea solid fertilizer adds a unique flavor to this spectacular crop and with the stunningly vivid colors we believe we have upped the bar on nutritional content from these little guys ... double WOW, colors and flavor deliver a nutritional punch !!! Pictured below is our initial product that we are ready to ship highlighting the nutrient source that we are now using on all our hydroponic microgreen products. If you follow our last series of blogs you will see how we got to this product and why we are so excited. Pictured below is our 2 gallon package that has a convenient 2 oz mixing bottle included. By simply adding water and mixing this solution, you will have enough nutrients that when fully diluted will give you 2 gallons of liquid organic fertilizer from sea solids. 
All of our Organic Fertilizer Products are taken from the exact source of sea solids used and identified by Dr Maynard Murray the father of the sea solid movement. The products are all:
---ODOR FREE---You can use it indoors without any fear of awful and offensive smells that can be associated with other organic and chemically produced fertilizers. Sea solids are completely odor free. --WATER-SOLUBLE---It is water soluble and works great in a sprayer or spray bottles, and is excellent in providing nutrients in hydroponic applications. ---MULTI PURPOSE---It improves the health, growth, and fruit of any plants or trees. You do not have to buy multiple fertilizers and combinations to try and make it work. Sea Solids are a complete good-for-everything organic fertilizer. ---TRULY GREEN---Whether you are growing vegetables for your family, raising citrus trees or flower gardens, or even a farmer growing row crops, you need to know this. This 100% Organic Fertilizer is collected from the marine mineral solids found in the beautiful Sea of Cortez. This all-natural soil conditioner contains 85 essential elements and is collected and processed using only "green" methods in a pollution free environment. With each order, we will email you information on how to mix and apply it to fit your needs. And if you have a question, ask us! We will be glad to assist you in your particular situation. ---ORGANIC--- It is certified by the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI product number saa-0132 and saa-2951) with no restrictions as both a fertilizer and livestock feed additive. It is 100% All Natural and safe for you, your pets, and your family. So you don't have to worry about spray applications or have any special storing location. Let's face it. Whether you are an organic fanatic or just someone who would like to take better care of themselves and their families by growing organically, it is hard to argue that what you eat affects your health. So when you get a choice to use a 100% organic fertilizer like Sea Solids that produces strong, healthy, hearty vegetables and plants and benefits the ground you are growing in, it just makes sense to use it. Noting how much difference the addition of sea solids had made, we set off to find which of the various sea solid products would meet our needs as it seemed all were virtually the same - or were they? After reading a lot of material and getting Dr. Murrays original book, "sea energy agriculture" I tried several products. For our microgreen growing process, we needed to have some sort of organic certification because our microgreens are featured in health food stores and restaurants. Another goal was that the product had nothing in the processing or content that might strip some of the minerals and nutrients or introduce something that was not naturally occurring. Introducing our new "Full Spectrum Hydroponic Nutrients for Microgreens" ...  Our new product is manufactured by SeaAgri and is now used in all our growing sites. The SeaAgri products come from the original site that Dr. Murray used. It features the same source of sea water and uses the original harvesting process. We have noticed an unmistakable difference in the microgreens and believe this takes growing to a new level.
---ODOR FREE---You can use it indoors without any fear of offensive smells that can be associated with other organic and chemically produced fertilizers. Sea solids are completely odor free. --WATER-SOLUBLE---It is water soluble and works great in a sprayer or spray bottles. It is excellent in providing nutrients for hydroponic applications. ---MULTI PURPOSE---It improves the health, growth, and fruit of any plants or trees. You do not have to buy multiple fertilizers and combinations to try and make it work. Sea Solids are a complete good-for-everything organic fertilizer. ---TRULY GREEN---Whether you are growing vegetables for your family, raising citrus trees or flower gardens, or even a farming row crops, you should consider this product. This 100% Organic Fertilizer is collected from the marine mineral solids found in the beautiful Sea of Cortez. This all-natural soil conditioner contains 85 essential elements and is collected and processed using only "green" methods in a pollution free environment. With each order, we will email you information on how to mix and apply it to fit your needs. And if you have a question, ask us! We will be glad to assist you in your particular situation. ---ORGANIC--- It is certified by the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI product number saa-0132 and saa-2951) with no restrictions as both a fertilizer and livestock feed additive. It is 100% All Natural and safe for you, your pets, and your family. So you don't have to worry about spray applications or have any special storing location. Let's face it. Whether you are an organic fanatic or just someone who would like to take better care of themselves and their families by growing organically, it is hard to argue that what you eat affects your health. So when here is a chance to use a 100% organic fertilizer that produces strong, healthy, hearty vegetables and plants and benefits the soil you are growing in. We will be introducing this product for sale today in a 1 & 5 gallon size (one pouch dissolved in 1 gallon of water - 5 gallon package pictured above). Order today to experience the wonder of the addition of a complete spectrum of trace minerals and nutrients to your microgreens or any type of farming. We consider this to be the gold standard of organic fertilizer. Your plants will thank you !!! In our previous installment we highlighted the journey on finding a solution to many a problem, both for plants and for animals. A shortage or imbalance of trace nutrients can manifest itself in many debilitating diseases and breakdowns in critical functions in living systems. The lack of key nutritional elements has be exacerbated by modern farm techniques that cater to looks and transportability rather than the nutritional content of our foods and the health of our topsoil. These trace elements control the content of the food we grow and allow fertility of the soils that crops are grown in. The lack of any key member of trace elements can cause deficiencies in the profile of the crop and also affect the health of the consumer by passing through a lack of key and necessary nutrients. There appears to be an intricate interplay to mineral utilization, one so complex that science has only started deciphering nature's complexity. For instance, sulfur requires vitamin C for absorption. In turn, vitamin C demands copper, and copper asks for zinc. Like the law of minimums, Any lack of key trace nutrients can stop the entire chain in its tracks. Much as elements work together in ocean waters, they support each other in the similar solution in our own blood serum. Thus Dr Murray concluded that the key to wellness of both plants and animals was the ability to have all the trace nutrients available to the consumer, being either plant or animal. The consumer ultimately benefits by being able to use any available pathway to obtain valuable nutrition and creating stronger organisms. SO ... we decided that if this hypothesis was correct, then by the addition of trace nutrients we would ultimately see improvement in our crops of microgreens. The Experiments: We devised a test of this by taking our hydroponic system of growing microgreens. This system uses purified water, a sterile organic grow mat and seeds. By controlling all the variables except the introduction of the sea solids, we are able to see directly the effect of adding back the trace elements ...First batch is comparing our present "best" system which is our addition of an organic fertilizer that had yielded great results and we were delivering to our customers. First pic shows control of plain water with no nutrients and our "best" to show how much better this was than a simple water based hydro microgreen tray. The second photo compares the best system to our sea solids only tray on the same day ... note the major differences in both size and strength of the microgreens. Next pictures show the differences on delivery day which is a full 7 days of growing (note our "best system had cut 1-2 days off the normal growing time from earlier systems). The difference is not only marked, but the difference in the actual leaves, colors, strength of stem and taste are just phenomenal. Last photo is another experiment (at 5 days) using our sea solids vs our WonderSoil media that had both worm casting and fertilizer in a coir based substrate, in this photo, the sea solids are on the right but the differences are extreme. Note again how the sea solids unleashed the plants like no other. Thus our experiments showed significant results due to simply using sea solids on our hydroponic solution. Finally, in our work and subsequent use of the solution we uncovered further evidence of the positive effects of the nutrients on our microgreens. Here is a shot of our new live trays that were in a store for 2 weeks without any water or any intervention. The incredible strength and vibrancy of our microgreens is on full display ... 
Our next blog will unveil our sea solid fertilizer that is made for our microgreens but can be used on virtually anything ...
We have been searching for keys to providing fresh LIVE microgreens to consumers and I think we may have unlocked the secrets. Take a look at these photos snapped today of our live trays that are now 14 days old !!! The pak choi shows some degrading, but nothing signficant. I gave some of our trays that we removed from the display to the managers of the store for their lunches and they were amazed with the robust flavor and strength of the "aged" microgreens. Microgreens are very delicate products and typically have a shelf life of less than 5 days and in some case far less. Our new product delivers all the color and nutrition and takes shelf life and FRESH to a new level. Just to show again the display of our live trays in the store produce section.  We are going to be offering growing kits for people wanting to start in the business or those who are in the business and want to get in on our live trays. We will provide all the materials and support to grow these amazing Microgreen Live Trays ... use our web contact to find out more details.
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