Microgreens – You’ve likely seen them, but what makes them good for you? Join Extension Master Gardener Becky Halbe to learn their many benefits and some simple ways to grow these delicious, nutritious, and inexpensive baby plants and sprouts in your own home.
Zoom session, January 8, 2021
Video of Presentation
Chapter Breaks
- 0:00:00 Introduction
- 0:03:37 What are microgreens?
- 0:04:51 Why grow microgreens?
- 0:05:55 Why eat microgreens?
- 0:06:24 Nutritional values
- 0:07:45 How-to’s
- 0:13:05 Questions
- 0:14:40 How-to’s continued
- 0:24:02 Questions
- 0:32:18 Problems
- 0:41:38 Do’s & don’t’s
- 0:43:02 How to eat microgreens
- 0:45:57 Questions
Additional Resources
Microgreens Class Handout – pdf
Microgreens seen in presentation – Photos © Becky Halbe

Three different “crops” on one piece of coconut coir. Done for demonstration purposes to show how different seeds grow at different rates, and how growing rates can vary depending on growing medium used.

Sprouts as opposed to microgreens. Careful sanitation (clean glass containers) and twice daily rinsing make sprouts just a bit trickier to grow safely than microgreens. Those sprout screw-on lids date back to the 70s- yes, I’m old!- but you can always use cheesecloth or old clean pantyhose. Alfalfa on the left, mung beans on the right.