 Hey everybody it's Robin with Creativity RV and if you want to get more greens into your diet even if you're living full-time on the road or you're in a tiny house then I'm going to take you with me today while I make a new batch of microgreens. Right here in the front of my overhead bunk you can see that I've got some microgreens. I just watered these so they're looking a little wimpy burger but you know they give me a nice amount of green in front of this barrier and then behind that I have my whole garden if you guys want to learn more about how I did all this I've got two past videos on that but you can see here I've got broccoli sprouts and here I've got sunflower sprouts and I'm going to take you guys with me while I do my new batch which are going to be pea shoots. These are the microgreens that I have right now. This is a sunflower sprout and if you guys are not familiar with microgreens here's the deal. There are seeds and then there are sprouts and then there are microgreens and then there are plants in that order. So you know a lot of people eat sprouts. Well these are just sprouts that have been allowed to grow more so you don't have to grow them in a jar. You can actually grow them in some kind of a growing medium like compost but if you want to be on the road and have some nutritious stuff to eat microgreens might be a good way to go because these little guys have 10 to 40 times more nutrients than the plants that they grow into. So like this is a sunflower sprout. If you taste it it tastes kind of like romaine with a sunflower taste to it and they're super crisp. They're super crunchy look. I don't know if you can hear that. Can you guys hear that? It actually makes a little crunchy noise. They get super puffy and they're delicious and I will just cut these and put them on top of potatoes. I'll put them in soup. I'll put them in a quesadilla. I'll put them on hash browns in the morning. I'll put them in a stir fry. You know just last minute I'll just throw them in so that they've still got a little bit of a crunch. But these are some flower sprouts and these are actually broccoli sprouts. So this is broccoli you guys but you just put it in here really dense. These are about a week old if you can believe it. I actually was going to show this to you guys when they were sprouting but they just exploded on me and they also taste these taste kind of like celery mixed with broccoli to me and I put these on a sandwich with some hummus you know just like as if they were a sprout because they have about that consistency. But look at the bottom. Do you see these roots? They love it in here and let's try not to kill these. Now these I should have harvested a long time ago but you can see this side I've actually harvested. So every time I go to make a meal I basically just take some scissors. You can see that I've already done some. I take some scissors and I just cut you know whatever amount I need. I actually I'm going to eat these. I'll try and do it with one hand. So this is what you've got. You can actually put on your dinner and I don't know if you guys know this but these go for a lot of money at farmers markets and also at high-end restaurants and they are just delicious and they're so cute and they grow in like a week. Here's the great thing about microgreens for an RV or a van. This is about 10 days old. That's a week old and so I just keep rotating. In fact what I'm going to try today and I'm going to take you guys with me since I've really harvested half of this container and by the way of course the container and the growing medium and everything can be found in the link below at my Amazon store if you guys want to check it out but I'm actually going to try and cut these in half. I'm going to remove the soil and everything from this and then out of popsicle sticks and foil paper. I got a love of craft. I put a little separator so I'm going to separate this out and try and grow some new greens right here so I can show you guys the process. The root structure on these things is so great that I literally just took a spatula and took that dirt out and then put my little foil separator in here. If this works I am actually going to have four different types growing at all times. I may have over-purchased seeds a little bit. I've got all kinds of seeds to make but today I'm going to make some more peas. I've already made peas before. This is a fresh pack. I only used half of it because I'm only going to use half of this container but here's basically the process. You get your seed whatever kind that is. I like this one. I got like a five pack of different varieties just to try them all and I love this pack. They have really good instructions on the back. These instructions said that you need to soak them for 12 hours and so I did that. I use these reusable silicone containers that I love so I just poured the seeds in there and they've been soaking and so now I'm going to go ahead and put them in the soil. I found a great product to grow my microgreens in. Again I've only found this on Amazon. If I see it anywhere local I'll let you guys know but this is food grade compost and I found this product where I think they come six in a box so you get a box with six of these and this expands to I think a quart of compost which is a great material to mix in with your regular plants but it also makes a great medium to grow your microgreens in and because they come like this you don't have to store a whole bunch of stuff. It came with its own bag and what you do is you put this into the bag and you fill it with water and then you have basically soil that you can grow your microgreens in. I'm going to show you guys while I do that right now. By the way you really can't snap these in half. I've tried. You need like a saw to do it. They are very compact until you add water. I have to tell you guys before this I had a big freaking bucket from like Home Depot that I was carrying around with me to make compost. This is so much easier so I hope you guys can see this. I just eyeball at this point how much water to put in. I know pretty well at this point that's about the right ratio and in a second here it's kind of fun. It's like a science experiment. You're going to see this thing just explode. It gets really really big and I'm going to help it really quick with my hand so that we can get on with our microgreen growing. So look how much of the coconut core this made. You guys I think maybe I called this compost earlier but now it's gone so I can't redo that shop but this is coconut core. If I called it the wrong thing that's what came in that little container. The secret to this stuff is that you really want to break it up and make sure there are no lumps but that little tiny puck made all of this. Now I won't use all of this but like I said it's impossible to cut the puck up into a smaller size so I'm just going to use what I want to make the microgreens and then I'm going to leave the bag open and let it dry out in this form so it doesn't get moldy or anything and then just use it again next time. It doesn't have to be perfect. What you don't want is you don't want them on top of each other although I did learn a really cool hack from somebody else on YouTube that I've tried before but I'm not going to do it this time. You can put a layer and then as soon as they start to sprout put another layer in and that way you'll get too harvest. You usually do not get too harvest out of most varieties of these when you just grow them with one layer of seeds but that way the second layer is not stopping the first layer from growing because it's already started growing. It's a pretty great tip. I've put out the peas in a pretty even layer as far as I can tell they're not too bad on top of each other so at this point you have two options. You can either put a blackout shade on this which could be I mean a paper plate whatever you have right or you can put a thin layer of soil on top that's what I usually do now. The reason is that when they're in this stage you don't want to have them in direct light so you're blocking the light and then as soon as you see some little sprouts come up then you take off that shade or they've poked through the soil and then you can put them in the sun. I don't want to have to worry about that so I just put more soil over the top then I don't have to remove anything when I go to mist it which is the next step. I've added a really thin layer of soil on top and then all you do for about the first two or three days until you see them sprout is you mist it with water. This bottle actually came with that pack of compost and so did the bag. Gotta love that but you just give it a nice mist twice a day. That's it. That's it and then you watch them sprout and you cut them and you eat them and then you start again. Super easy anybody can do this. Microgreens are the best. They're cute. They're fun. They're delicious. They're easy to grow so I hope you guys have been able to use this information. If you have please do give it a thumbs up. Share it with your friends. Subscribe if you haven't already. Check out my blog at CreativityRV.com. I wish you all happy travels out there and be free.