A plate of microgreens with heirloom tomato, avocado and pine nuts
Specialty Microgreens — local, raw, flavorful

Fresh flavor · Nutritious · Come grow with us

Welcome to
Specialty Microgreens.

Our small farm is dedicated to growing premium, soilless, chemical-free microgreens for chefs and you at home.

Our Menu

What We Grow

Every variety has a job to do.

Our standing list rotates with the season. Ask about custom trays — if it germinates, we will trial it for you.

Radish

Peppery, sharp, a clean horseradish finish.

Tacos · Rich meats · Egg dishes

Pea Shoot

Sweet and grassy with a snapping crunch.

Salads · Stir-fry · Spring soups

Sunflower

Nutty, thick-stemmed, the most substantial of the list.

Sandwiches · Bowls · Smoothies

Broccoli

Mild, crunchy.

Pasta · Everyday salads · Toast

In the Kitchen

Creative, Easy Ways to Add to Your Dishes

Microgreen salad with tomato, avocado, feta and pumpkin seeds
01

The salad that needs nothing

A handful of mixed greens, heirloom tomato, avocado, feta and toasted seeds. Olive oil, lemon, salt. That is the whole recipe — and between the microgreens, the tomato and the seeds, it is full of antioxidants.

Crackers topped with herbed cream cheese and microgreens
02

Canapés, in five minutes

Whipped cream cheese on a seeded cracker, a spoon of olive tapenade, and whichever variety is loudest that week.

Squid ink pasta with salmon and microgreens on a dark plate
03

Colour against the dark

Squid-ink pasta, seared salmon, and a scatter of radish and broccoli added just before serving — off the heat, so they keep their nutrition and their crunch.

Chilled green soup garnished with microgreens
04

The garnish that is the dish

Pea tendrils, chicken broth, olive oil, salt and pepper, and a spoon of crème fraîche on top. Texture on something otherwise entirely smooth.

Feeling exotic? Swap the broth for coconut milk, wake it up with garlic, turmeric and paprika, finish with a squeeze of lime, and crown it with radish.

Find Us

Where our greens turn up.

Markets, shelves and menus around town — plus the fastest way to keep up with what is coming out of the grow room.

Farmers market

Abita Springs Art & Farmers Market

Sundays, 11am – 3pm at the Trailhead Pavilion.
22049 Main St, Abita Springs, LA 70420

Get directions
Grocery

Lagarde's Whole Health Market

Mon – Fri 9am – 5:30pm, Sat 9am – 3pm.
147 S 6th St, Ponchatoula, LA 70454

Get directions

Why Microgreens

Small leaves,
concentrated everything.

A seed packs everything the whole plant will need into its first few leaves. Cut at that moment, the flavour and the nutrition are at their most concentrated — without the months of growing that a full-size crop needs.

01

Flavour, undiluted

A radish microgreen tastes more like radish than the radish does. Nothing has been spread thin across a full-grown plant yet.

02

Dense by the gram

Published analyses have found many microgreen varieties carry higher concentrations of nutrients such as vitamin C, vitamin K and beta-carotene per gram than the same plant grown to maturity — though it varies a great deal by variety.

03

Local, not long-hauled

Nothing about a cut green improves in a long-distance truck. Ours are grown and sold close to home, so the texture and the aromatics are still intact when they reach you.

Dr. Rhonda Patrick of FoundMyFitness on sulforaphane — the compound broccoli sprouts and microgreens are an unusually concentrated source of. An independent scientific discussion from 2016, shared because it is interesting: it is not affiliated with us, and nothing in it is a health claim about our greens.