The Microgreens Weekly Digest
One email a week. The research, the money, and what to do Monday.
Ten to thirteen stories every Friday morning. New papers out of the plant science journals, farms opening and farms closing, market rules, and what a tray is actually selling for.
Nothing goes in that has not been read first. When a study is small, or the sample is thirty plants in one growth chamber, the letter says so.
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- Length10 to 13 stories
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A week of microgreens reporting, in one email
Most of what circulates about microgreens is the same handful of claims passed along without anybody checking. The letter exists because somebody has to read the actual papers, and because the business side of this crop almost never gets covered at all.
So each issue runs both. The research, with the finding stated plainly instead of the abstract pasted in. And the money: who opened, who closed, what a state legislature just funded, which market changed its vendor rules, what a grower in Wisconsin learned the hard way.
There is no filler in it because there is enough real news to fill it.
What a week in the letter looks like
Headlines that ran in a single issue. Not a description of the beat. The beat itself.
- Research Penn State Lifted Radish Microgreen Iron 345 Percent, and the Paper Also Reports Leaf Spotting
- Science & Research Palak, Broccoli, Fenugreek and Kale Top an Indian Scorecard of Sixteen Microgreen Crops
- Science & Research A Maryland and USDA Paper Reports That a Plant-Based Seed Soak Cut Salmonella on Brassica Microgreens, With Costs in Germination and Daikon Yield
- Industry & Business FDA Drafts Traceability Relief for Mid-Size Retailers and Restaurants and Sets a November 6 Public Meeting
- Industry & Business Florida Grower Sunswell Greens Puts Butterhead Lettuce in Select Target Stores in Four Southeast States
- Industry & Business UK Startup Home Harvest Opens a Kickstarter for Two Countertop Farms, With First Deliveries Estimated for February 2027
Two more ran in the same issue. Read it in full, or work backwards through the archive.
I started reading this literature in 2017, wanting to know whether any of the claims held up. Some did not. The ones that did turned out to matter more than the marketing ever said. Two books came out of that reading, one on growing and one on eating.
The letter is the weekly version of the same job. Read what came out, say what it means, leave out what does not survive the reading. More about all of it on the about page.
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One email, Friday morning, from Microgreens World. Nothing else. No daily sends, and no sequence of pitches dressed up as lessons.
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Educational only. Not medical, legal, financial or business advice. Microgreens are food, and nothing here says a crop treats or prevents a condition. No income is promised. Selling rules change by state and county.
