Hello,
This is the about us section. When I was doing yardwork for a living in Colorado Springs, 2017 age 23 I had a connundrum. What do I want to do with my life. Perhaps a better question is what does the world need. The world could use plants on skyscrapers. If I invented a plant tube that could grow produce and live on a track, between the rows of windows on highrise buildings then I could funnel all that produce into a nonprofit. In addition to purifying the air and adding beauty to the city the vegetables could be sold for pennies on the dollar and the leftovers could be used to make free meals and teach cooking classes. This became the dream. For a while I was obsessed with this growing on the wall thing. Then I discovered shipping container farms and those are still a fascination. After working for a vertical farming company and not being stoked on my role there I decided to start my own. I bought a program from a company out of canada that got me my own website, billing system, advertising material and tutorial on how to grow. I ran the company I now run, POTS using the method I had bought. I did direct to consumer, wholesale, restaurant sales and farmers markets. The process worked pretty well but I was ill equipped to run such an enterprise. It is now 1 year and 2 months later and I have just discovered a method for making progress growing this company into what it could be.
Looking forward to the next 3 months of getting set up and 6 months of providing consistent, high quality, local microgreens weekly.
Here at POTS we have an 8 step process. Our present recipe is:
Mix 200g of gaia green fertilizer with 5 gallons Pro-Mix HP soil and 1 gallon of water. (Makes 10 trays)
About 1.5 litres of this mixture is spread onto one 1020 tray and tamped down.
Seeds are then spread on top of the mixture. 15g for Arugula, 25g for Broccoli and Radish and 370g for Peas.
A light watering and then trays are stacked up top 6 high with weight on top of them. (Broccoli and Arugula are usually planted on Tuesdays for a next Sunday Harvest. Peas are seeded on Thursdays and Radish on Saturdays.)
After ~ 3 days of germination, trays are ready to be put under lights. The seeded "trays with holes" are put in "trays without holes" under led lights and given 8oz of water. 4-8 oz of water every day after.
After day 10 The trays are ready to be harvested. Trays are harvested and put into individual portions.
The trays are then composted and cleaned and the cycle starts over.