How To Grow Your Own Microgreens and Sprouts!

Microgreens are young vegetable plants harvested anywhere between 7 – 21 days after germination. They pack a punch of dense nutrients—antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, you name it!  The nutrition can give a big boost to your immunity system.

How to Grow Your Own Microgreens and Sprouts Class
Saturday, June 27th, 10 am – 12 noon
Cost: $35, which includes ingredients and supplies for taking home your own planted microgreens

Lilly Castro, better known as the “Sprout Chick,” has been in the alternative medicine field for over 20 years. As a holistic health consultant certified in advanced food healing, she is an expert on all things microgreens, teaching classes and workshops on growing microgreens, sprouting, juicing, and more.

Before moving to Nashville in 2015, Lilly worked at the world-renowned Hippocrates Health Institute, a raw vegan institute where people come from all over the world to heal themselves through holistic practices. While there, Lilly learned about the powerful health benefits of wheatgrass, sprouts, and microgreens. It is her mission to share this healing power with others!

We asked Lilly to share with us some of her knowledge about these nutritious greens.

What made you first realize the power of microgreens?

“I myself experimented with eating a 100% living food diet several times and saw the difference it made in my performance and mental sharpness.

Then I was lucky to work at the Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, FL—a raw vegan institute where people with devastating diagnoses come from all corners of the world to heal themselves through food and education.

Granted, there are many people who are well that come to HHI to learn how to prevent disease through diet. HHI grows most, if not all, of their food on the property, so you eat what has been harvested that morning!

You eat live foods at every meal and your juices are served within minutes of being pressed. We ate edible flowers, sprouts, shoots, microgreens and many other mature leafy greens. I personally saw the impact live, fresh, organic food had on an ill body.

You don’t have to be a raw vegan to get the benefits of all the live phytonutrients and enzymes in microgreens. You get benefits by adding them to your daily menu by putting them in soups, juices, salads, as garnish and even as a snack. For example, I LOVE to snack on sunflower sprouts!”

What are the health benefits of microgreens?

“WOW where do I start?!

Many studies have found that microgreens have larger quantities of magnesium, magnesium, copper, zinc, phosphorus, potassium, calcium (and the list goes on) and phytochemicals. Phytochenicals are chemical compounds produced by plants.

On this site it states that “some of these phytochemicals are believed to protect the cells from damage that could lead to breast cancer; they help stop carcinogens from attacking the cell.”

We can talk about Sulforaphane. It has potent cancer preventative effects, as well as effects that likely influence the prevention of cardiovascular disease. There have been studies finding positive effects on autism. Sulforaphane is found in broccoli microgreens and sprouts. You can find most if not all the studies on PubMed—a free full-test archive of biomedical literature.”

Bio 

Lilly Castro has been in the alternative medicine field for over 20 years. She is certified in Advanced food healing, and is a Holistic Health Consultant. Lilly has been teaching classes on disease prevention and reversing illness by changing lifestyle, eating habits, juicing and growing your greens.  She recently started her own line of microgreens and sprout products (Sprout Chick) to sell to the public.  If you would like more information on the products she offers click HERE.

Before moving to Nashville in 2015 Lilly worked at the world renowned Hippocrates Health Institute. HHI is a raw vegan institute were people come from all over the world to heal themselves through food and learning how their body works. There she learned how to grow wheatgrass, sprouts and microgreens and learned how powerful there are for optimal health and healing.  It has since become a mission to share the healing power sprouts and microgreens. Lilly better known as the “Sprout Chic” currently offers a variety of workshops covering growing microgreens, spouting, juicing and sustainable living.

How to Grow Your Own Microgreens and Sprouts Class
Saturday, June 27th, 10 am – 12 noon