Donny Greens, great content! Excited to see your automated watering system. Maybe another video idea on microgreens grow light schedule and how allowing to rest the plants for few hours a day without light gives them taste and color.
I love that you knew to keep the dirty hose away and off the greens when watering. Those little details about keeping the plants clean are much appreciated!
Just got my first grow light and am currently growing my first couple of trays of mixed lettuce micro greens! Next will be peas and sunflower seeds. I’m really surprised at how well they are growing! Thanks for all of your videos!
Great video as always. I use Donny's exact method on one shelf unit for personal use. We juice wheat grass and lots of other stuff. One tray cost about as much as buying a head of lettuce, so this method is far superior to buying produce at the store. It is also a great replacement for humanity's disastrous grain-train. Growing microgreen seeds instead of f*ck-tons of grain would demonstrate mild intelligence.
Hi Donny I'm from South Africa. I watch your videos every day wanting so much to start growing micro greens. I bought a kit to start waiting to get feedback from you, you are such an inspiration. My name is Miscy can't wait to hear from you.
Hi Donny, great videos, learned a lot. I am in the process of a start up Micro Green business in Zanzibar, I will keep on watching and will keep you updated with news if you want to know how it is going. Sitting on the equator is going to be challenging I gather.
Same, watering...only because I don't always get it right or consistent with it as I should be. IDK, it's a hit and miss for me sometimes. Love this content!
Hey Donny, We purchased a soft green coloured broom head that is only used to brush Sunflower works great, you can use a longer handle so you don't have to bend down. Give it a try.
I love watching your videos, my family and I are getting into starting a family farm, and we are doing microgreens as another supplementary income/winter harvest! You give so much information and are very thorough. Salute to you!!!
I am very new to this been watching your videos great fully appreciated for your expertise I am just starting with a couple of trays and I will see how that goes ,thankyou from New Zealand.
Haha im sure you are becoming more flexible so thats an added benefit lol!! Watering can be annoying as hell. Looking to automate my watering when I build out my next farm
Yeah.. I have two questions: 1) How much spoilage do you have?... like every month say? you seem like the type that may know the actual monthly-average %? 2) I would expect you'd have set up an automatic watering system... though you have not. Is that due to the variation in water-needs per tray? Amazing channel man.
Great video, lots of helpful information. I’m about to start a microgreens business but doing my homework first before starting. Also gonna do a small scale experiment before hand. I have a lot of experience in farming and gardening. Some techniques are similar in growing from seed but I want to learn the important details to avoid making big mistakes. Thanks
Least favorite farm chore? Doing microgreens myself and BY FAR my least favorite is washing trays. Love doing everything else but washing trays is that chore that's time consuming and wet and just makes my arms hurt by the time i've washed them all. :)
Thank you for this feedback, im getting that alot - I will definitely try to make longer videos like this now that i am a bit more comfortable on camera and editing. Much love 🌱💚
Duuude i bought some radishes and peas as practice runs for my first time growing and im so excited to start this journey not only bc your videos are awesome but your enthusiasm sells it!! P.s. Add an entro😜
Haha awesome, thanks so much for this comment. Im now pumped that youre so pumped haha. Its a great journey, the beginning is so exciting 🌱💚 Entro? What you mean?
He meant intro. Great content, keep it coming! We are in our 4th week after purchasing an existing business that was shutting down. Our sales have more than doubled already and it is just getting better and better! Thanks to DonnyGreens and Curtis Stone for the best info out there!
Darn I cant lift all those buckets of water sorry. It hurts my shoulder. Now I can see I wont be able to lift the trays with one hand either. Sorry this just isnt for me... but now I know. I guess Im aged out. Thanks for the education and may you have much continued success.
I got one rack NSF styled and I’m trying to scale in Atlanta Nawf / you should transition the farm to alkaline crops only and spread the truth about thr alkaline food vs industrial acidic food / thanks for the service keep it up / also do you plan growing outdoors in NYC during the summers or it’s not even worth it 💚
Donny, awesome content, I do have a question , you said you would prefer to have your germination temp @ 68 degrees, how did you maintain that temp when you were using your parents basement ?
I definitely wasn't maintaining temp as much when i was in the basement. I was really just winging it and it worked. The temp was right around where i needed it anyway and it was still winter. I had a small space heater to keep up. once i moved, i have my own HVAC
at the beginning of the video you say that your microgreens business is able to pay for your house and expenses from your business. You sounded surprised. Most people's jobs pay for their house and living - that's kind of why we work. So I wondering if this is just a side gig for you and you have another job? Is that why it's so amazing that the greens job is paying for your living? Great content - keep it up..
lml im like yeah watering, not that ive even made a sale yet or anything but its definitely what i hate about farming- but everything else is so great it balances right out.
Im currently trying to start up ..i have well water with a water softener. Do u think that will be a issue.. thank you so much for your videos it is truly inspiring...im in NJ
I'm very interested in this business , I've owned my own pressure cleaning business / handyman business for 24 yrs and looking for a new business to get into and I think this is it I'm getting to old too do my existing business
Trying to figure out your system here. Looks like you're just germinating and pulling trays according to order totals for the week and setting them out on the racks anywhere you can. Is there any organization to knowing which trays are ready to harvest on which days or are you just doing it all by eye? seems like stuff would get mixed up. I noticed some people use color coding/stickers to separate trays based on harvest day. What do you think?
Hi Donny, I live north of Charlotte, NC We are considering growing Micro Greens, We are thinking about putting in a greenhouse and have another building put in for growing micro greens, we own the lot next to use which is almost .3 acre I find this to be a very interesting business. I will sign up for your webinars as well.
When do you start brushing off the microgreens? Is it the last few days or as soon as they start popping up? I guess what I’m trying to ask is is there a time in growth that is to soon and will damage your crop
A true entrepreneur would want to work more to make more. But if settling for the minimum is your goal...I'm happy for you Brother! Nice video and thank you!
I know it seems lame, but as a business owner, what did you do to actually set up your business? Growing is great and I am digging the advice so much, but what did you have to do to actually get to where you could sell them? Did you use a resource to check out legalities (like do I need a license to sell, if so how would I know?). Did you need an LLC or did you just start doing stuff and play company catchup later? Again, Loving the info on growing, SUPER helpful, but if you have time, the (non growing), part of the business might be useful so people are not trying to put the cart before the horse. Thanks!!!
Great feedback Troy, thanks so much for this. I will definitely have to make videos on some of the (not growing) aspects of the biz. You really can get started growing and selling without much. FLIP insurance is a good idea. Check with your local department of agriculture to see what they would require
60 K for 10 hours per week is AWESOME!! That's equivalent to a $240K/year full time job...nothing to sneeze at! Love your content and aspiring to greater achievements for my microgreens too!
Donny im aiming to start a micro greens business, can you please tell me if your trays are holed or solid? i'm having a hard time choosing which to get. i've been EXTREMELY motivated and informed by your videos ( currently on my 2nd hour of watching consequitive videos haha) please keep this amazing content going
Hi there, obviously not Donny here. The tray that holds the microgreens themselves have holes, and the bottom ones do not. Donny is doing bottom watering, which is why he lifts the top tray and sprays water in the bottom one. Hope this helps!
Question! Maybe you have already answered in a different video or on your blog, can you use rainwater to water these plants? We catch rainwater down here in Florida and would love if that’s a viable option.
Well I'm trying to get the ins and out how much money did you start out I'm 61 and need a fair income so I am having a lot go through my mine but I love your learning but yes watering is mine
