You’ve probably seen plenty of claims about how much money you can make growing microgreens. Yet one of the most common questions people still ask is: “Are microgreens profitable”? The short answer to this question is: Maybe. And the long answer is complex and somewhat boring. So, to keep things Read more…
One of the biggest challenges microgreens growers can have is marketing their products. There are many approaches to marketing, and you should try try to utilize them all, but we have here one of the Best Microgreens Marketing Strategy frameworks which incorporates multiple marketing approaches into one – without having Read more…
One of the biggest Crop planning challenges for microgreens production is properly planning for farmers markets. You just never know how how busy any given farmers market will be – and Crop cycles are too long to get an accurate weather forecast at sowing time! So planning for farmers markets Read more…
One of the main goals of microgreens crop planning is to ensure you have enough Crop to meet your Product needs, but not so much that you end up with waste. Now, of course any extra microgreens Crop you produce can be taken home or used for samples, but such Read more…
For each of your crops you should have an “expected yield” value for your best-quality crop. This is what you would expect your optimum yield to be, for each individual crop, in typical growing conditions. Now, optimum yield is different than maximum yield. Optimum yield refers to the yield at which Read more…
While we are still in the development stage of SeedLeaf we are making great progress and are happy to share with you some of its functionality to give you a sense of how it works and how it can support your microgreens business. Check out the overview video here and Read more…
One of the most complex aspects of crop planning is the product. A product is closely related to a crop but there is a clear distinction we need to make: You grow a crop You sell a product Even when the crop gets sold as is (e.g., live tray) it Read more…
While the goal of SeedLeaf is to help manage your microgreens crop planning needs, it can also help you manage your customers. Here are some of the things you should keep in mind about customers. First, let’s take a look at the customer information required for crop planning. Ready? Customer Read more…
The starting point for microgreens production is the crop. Without a crop you cannot have products and without products you have nothing to offer customers and without customers you have no one to place an order and without orders you cannot generate revenue. As we covered in the Principles of Read more…
Well, as a first quick post we are happy to be launching the promo site for SeedLeaf! We are developing SeedLeaf as an easy-to-use online microgreens crop planning tool. Developed by Chris Thoreau and Joel Skrepnek, SeedLeaf strives to be the best microgreens crop planner ever. Building on the original Read more…