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How Do You Grow Micro Greens (For The Culinary Chef)?

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How Do You Grow Micro Greens (For The Culinary Chef)?

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Micro greens are often ordered online or purchased from local farmers by home, hobby and professional culinary chefs. Both are great methods. But some culinary chefs want to grow their own for a variety of reasons including being able to experiment with new micro greens and being able to tell patrons that the restaurant grows its own micro greens, or that at least one of their culinary chefs is also a local farmer. This article focuses on micro greens used for trendy foods. See Resources for article on growing wheatgrass for juicing, which is also sometimes called a form of micro greens. Understand their growth and light needs. Micro greens need light, but not the minimum six hours of full sunlight like other crops grown to full fruition. They are usually harvested within three to five weeks when two to four inches tall, then allowed to rebound (especially lettuce micro greens) or the growing medium is composted and a new crop is sown. Culinary chefs can grow micro greens at home on th

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