Episode #45, Hydroponic Microgreens with City Hydro

Today we chat with Larry Hountz from City Hydro in Baltimore. He has a great story of starting out and created a business growing micro greens. He has looking at the economics of it while learning about what works and what doesn’t work for small indoor farmers. If you want to go to market with your produce or are curious about creating a local indoor growing operation to supply restaurants and kitchens with live microgreens, you may find this episode very interesting. Larry and his wife started their journey from scratch not knowing all that much about what to do. He now grows 16 different types of micro greens and has over the years grown 85 at a time using his simple hydro systems which in my opinion would be a great add-on to existing farmers market offerings with not much added effort for existing produce marketeers. He discusses how his systems are set up, a breakdown of the economics of running this type of microgreens micro-farm, a few of the seeds he is focussing on, some plants that make good mini greens rather than micro greens and how to learn more about what he is doing and get started yourself.