Microgreens on a Shelf: Grow restaurant-ready greens indoors and sell them · Alt Ordo Systems Guide

Microgreens are vegetable and herb seedlings cut when they are one to four weeks old, just as the first true leaves appear. They are tiny, colorful and strongly flavored, and chefs pay real money for them. You grow them in shallow trays of potting mix or coir on a wire shelf under LED strips, in any season, in a spare room, a cabin corner or a closet. The growing is easy to learn. The business is in the weighing, the cleanliness, the cold chain and showing up with the same greens every week.

This guide helps you build a shelf farm under LED lights, grow a dozen crops from seed to harvest in one to four weeks, keep them safe and cold, and sell them to chefs and neighbors with honest numbers on cost, power and profit.

What's inside. 19 pages in 10 chapters (At a glance, Where it works, How it works, Size it, Parts and cost, Build and grow, Run it, Sell it, Rules and permits, How it connects), then the sources and a notes page. 7 numbered figures drawn for this guide. You also get a worked example with a fill-in worksheet, 12 numbered steps, a year-round calendar, and a troubleshooting table.

Sourced and fact-checked. Facts and figures are cited to the 28 sources listed at the back, and the whole guide was fact-checked before release. General guidance, not engineering advice: your county and a qualified pro have the last word on your site.

Pairs with other Alt Ordo Systems Guides: Portable power stations; Off-grid solar; Composting; DIY Worm Tower Plans; Backyard chickens; The off-grid vegetable garden; Hoop greenhouses; Safe drinking water. For your county's permits and rules, see our county and state guides.

Instant PDF download. After checkout you get a download link by email. Letter-size pages, made to read on screen or print at home.