MICRO: How Chris Thoreau Started, Built, and Grew a Thriving Microgreens Business - Episode 1

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily · Nov 16, 2016 · 50m

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Today we are going to start the series, by going back to the beginning. This is the story of how urban farmer Chris Thoreau started his microgreens farm almost 10 years ago.

Chris will take on questions such as:

Why microgreens? Why did he start with microgreen?

Who did he model and how much did he start with?

And how did he handle startup and work life balance.

As you will hear it was tough at times, because Chris started his farm at what on paper looks like an inopportune time.

He started this part time while in…