Micro Greens Series: Sunflower Greens Pt.1

Micro greens are at the heart of growing food organically without land. They're really fun to do with kids too, and hey, if you don't eat em, feed em to your pets. They're a powerhouse of nutrition and can add so much to a green salad. We learned how to grow these decades ago--here's my orginal instructions for our first ones, sunflower greens, courtesy of the late Ann Wigmore D.D. of the Hippocrates Institute. Her gold standard for healing has always been wheatgrass, and it's basically grown in the same way. I'll have photos of the process in a future post. Food as medicine. Chlorophyll increases the hemoglobin in the blood which then distributes oxygen to every cell in our body. All the microgreens and green drinks are powerful blood cleansers and blood builders.
$$Tip: These are so cheap to grow, and very expensive to buy, and then not as fresh as just clipping and eating them on the spot, no packaging either, just green green green in your bowl and in your pocket.

These are the instructions I've always used. You can use a baking dish, cafe tray, steel or enamel pan. This time I used a 10" plastic plant saucer that was free.

Big grey stripe organic sunflower seeds in the hull and raw.

Put them in the jar with water--they float at first. Soak 12 hrs.

The soaked seeds now laid on top of nice potting mix (add kelp powder for minerals if you have it), and the wet sheets of paper. I don't like to use newsprint.

Cover everything with a plastic bag to incubate for 2-3 days in a warm place. Part 2 will cover what happens next.