Grow your own sprouts!

Low cost and fresh

Embarrassing yes. I desperately wanted some sprouts for a sandwich. When the cashier rang up my totals, I realized that my package of sprouts, about enough for two sandwiches, had cost me nearly $10.

After lunch I checked around for sprouting supplies. All that was needed were some new screens and screw tops for my Mason Jars and sprouting seeds from the local health food store.

Needless to say, these supplies will keep us in greens for weeks to come. These home grown sprouts are affordable, nutritious and a carbon savvy product. No packaging, no trip to the store for sprouts.

Each batch takes about 5 to be 7 days to mature. I rinse mine twice a day to prevent them from drying out and to prevent growth of bacteria or mold. It’s easy to vary the amount of seed that you start in the jar according to family needs.

Start small using just a tablespoon of seeds so that you can gage how much seed to start with future batches. Keep them in a dark place at room temperature (not the refrigerator) until they’re a couple inches long. Then expose the sprouts to light so that the leaves turn green.

Oh yes. Those tiny seeds are using water and CO2 from the air around us to make the sprouts. Just like lawns, flowers and trees, it’s another way to capture carbon.

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