Green Garden Organics
Miami, Florida · Since 1992 · Florida’s first urban organic wheatgrass farmer
Grow trays that do not go to mold
Lou Duncanson has grown wheatgrass and microgreens in Miami since the early eighties. He supplied Whole Foods, The Fresh Market and Milam’s. Now he teaches small growers what forty years taught him.
Five pages. If it doesn’t help, say so and you get your money back.
- Growing since the early eighties
- Licensed nutritionist Florida, 30 years
- Supplied Whole Foods, Fresh Market, Milam’s
- Featured in Miami Herald, Miami New Times, Eater Miami
The record
Nineteen ninety-one. Lou between Viktoras Kulvinskas, who wrote the book that built the raw food movement, and Dick Gregory.
For years after that, every bag that reached a Miami shelf carried his face on the label.
Why trays fail
Day three, and the tray smells wrong
You lift the lid and there it is. White fuzz across the seed. You tell yourself it is root hair. By day four the smell settles it for you.
Most growers answer mold by adding steps. A longer rinse, a peroxide dip, one more sanitising spray. Lou went the other way. He took the soak out.
- Seed that turns slimy in the jar before it ever touches soil
- Patchy trays, so half a harvest has to pay for a whole bag of seed
- A grow room with a sour smell you cannot trace
Here is the part almost nobody says out loud. Mold is a water and air problem, not a dirt problem. Hours of standing water leave the seed coat warm, wet and still, and every spore in the room now has a bed.
Fixing it means changing what happens in the first twelve hours. Lou wrote down how.
Notice
Start where most growers lose their first trays
The No-Soak Method is Lou’s ten rules for growing microgreens and wheatgrass without mold. Five pages. No filler.
If it doesn’t help, say so and you get your money back.
On the record
John Kohler walked the rows
GrowingYourGreens came to Miami and filmed the whole operation, top to bottom. The title is Kohler’s, not ours.
The grower
Who Lou is
Lou started with three trays on a screened porch in Coconut Grove in the early eighties. He founded Green Garden Organics in 1992 and built it into a supplier for health food stores across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach, then for Whole Foods, The Fresh Market and Milam’s.
He is a licensed nutritionist in the State of Florida, licence number NC489. Sunflower, pea and buckwheat greens sat on his hand-painted price board years before the trade settled on the word microgreens.
Ten thousand people have his soil recipe. Not one of them grows like he does.
When five pages is not enough
Fix Your Grow
$297
Sixty minutes with Lou, one to one. Bring photos of the tray, your seed, your water and your room temperature. He tells you what went wrong and what to change before the next sowing.
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Nothing on this page is medical advice, and nothing here is intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.