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    Miguel and Mellisa run a family-owned microgreens farm in Bellevue, Washington called Chinampas Farm. Using a vertical, optimized growing space and aquaponic system, they are able to produce up to 600 pounds of microgreens per month. At a selling price of $20 per pound, this results in $12,000 in monthly revenue. The microgreens are sold to restaurants, through home delivery, and at farmers markets. The farm utilizes sustainable practices with low water and power usage.

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    Miguel and Mellisa run a family-owned microgreens farm in Bellevue, Washington called Chinampas Farm. Using a vertical, optimized growing space and aquaponic system, they are able to produce up to 600 pounds of microgreens per month. At a selling price of $20 per pound, this results in $12,000 in monthly revenue. The microgreens are sold to restaurants, through home delivery, and at farmers markets. The farm utilizes sustainable practices with low water and power usage.

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    Miguel and Mellisa run a family-owned microgreens farm in Bellevue, Washington called Chinampas Farm. Using a vertical, optimized growing space and aquaponic system, they are able to produce up to 600 pounds of microgreens per month. At a selling price of $20 per pound, this results in $12,000 in monthly revenue. The microgreens are sold to restaurants, through home delivery, and at farmers markets. The farm utilizes sustainable practices with low water and power usage.

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    Miguel and Mellisa run a family-owned microgreens farm in Bellevue, Washington called Chinampas Farm. Using a vertical, optimized growing space and aquaponic system, they are able to produce up to 600 pounds of microgreens per month. At a selling price of $20 per pound, this results in $12,000 in monthly revenue. The microgreens are sold to restaurants, through home delivery, and at farmers markets. The farm utilizes sustainable practices with low water and power usage.

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    The passage discusses a family farm that grows microgreens using an ancient floating garden technique called chinampas. They are able to produce high yields of microgreens in a small optimized space.

    Chinampas farming involves using floating gardens, an ancient technique where gardens are built on islands or land surrounded by canals or water. This farm applies this technique in a modern urban vertical farm setting.

    The farm is able to produce up to 600 pounds of microgreens monthly, generating potential revenue of $12,000 per month at $20 per pound.

    CHINAMPAS

    FARM GROWS
    600 POUNDS
    OF MICROGREENS
    M O N T H LY
    A Microgreens
    Case Study
    by GroCycle

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    MICROGREENS CAN SELL FOR w w w.g r o cyc l e . c o m
    $50/ pound
    OPPORTUNITY
    W i d e C r o p Va r i e t y FA C T S A B O U T
    MICROGREENS
    UP AND RUNNING FOR Microgreens are young edible seedlings

    Less than $100 harvested at the cotyledon leaf stage.

    They have low start up costs.

    Super fast growing cycle.

    Meet Miguel High nutritional value.

    and Mellisa. Using racks with 4 shelves, many


    growers can produce 25 lbs of micro-
    greens in a weekly cycle in a 10 ft2
    space. At $25 per lbs that is $625 per
    cycle or $2,500 per month.

    They run a family owned business composed by a third generation


    of farmers that seeks to provide a more sustainable and healthier
    form of food while honoring their ancestors’ growing technique
    known as chinampas.

    These floating gardens are applied in a modern setting.

    Their microgreens are grown in a small optimized space, where


    water gets recycled into an aquaponic system that provides nutri-
    ents to our greens.
    THE OUTPUT
    The farm is located in the middle of the sophisticated city of
    Bellevue, Washington. That means they have plenty of customers
    on their doorstep.

    This vertical urban farm can provide delicious healthy food year-
    round and produce up to 600 pounds of greens monthly. At $20
    that means a whopping $12,000 per month.

    The microgreens are sold via different routes. The produce is sold
    to restaurants, via home delivery and at a farmer’s market.

    Through design the farm is also environmentally sound with very


    low water and power usage.

    Visit them here: chinampasfarm.com

    “
    Our microgreens are nutrient dense and a super food because of its
    nature but also because of all the love and care we put into grow-
    ing them. I mean what food listens to Mozart from seed to harvest?

    MIGUEL AKA ‘PAPAGREEN’


    Microgreen Expert and Founder

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