A video explaining how to grow sprouts and some of the benefits.
A video explaining how to grow sprouts and some of the benefits.
Released May 14, 2008
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Every year for nearly two decades, Florida farmers have gathered at the Suwannee Valley Twilight Field Day to hone their craft, often learning how to grow more luscious and larger fruits and vegetables. This year, however, there was a new lesson being offered: how to grow small.
Dubbed one of 2008’s culinary buzzwords by National Public Radio, microgreens—vegetables harvested soon after sprouting—are expected to be one of this summer’s hottest food trends, as well as a boon to many small specialty farms that provide them to restaurants and farmers’ markets.
Experts at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences are helping farmers take advantage of the phenomenon.
Here is a list of ten great reasons to grow sprouts for eating, written by Sproutman® Steve Meyerowitz.
"Sprouts? Are they garnish, or are they food? Many who don't know much about sprouts put them in the same category as parsley, a garnish that you put on your food but not much of a food in itself. That's not my view."
Sprouting: A Brief Overview on How to Sprout
by Thomas E. Billings
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