Community Session: Grow Your Own Greens – Microgreens, Sprouts & Homegrown Salads

Fresh, nutritious greens at your fingertips, without the supermarket price tag.

Join Ali from the Compost Collective for an interactive Love Food Hate Waste workshop and discover the world of microgreens, sprouts and homegrown salads. Learn how to cultivate these nutritious greens at home, from seed to harvest, and create a salad using freshly harvested greens with a wilted greens dressing.

Microgreens are the young shoots of vegetables and herbs, such as broccoli, radish and peas, harvested while they are still small and tender. Full of flavour and nutrients, they’re an easy and cost-effective way to add extra goodness to your everyday meals. You don’t need a vegetable garden or lots of equipment, they can be grown at home, all year round and in quantities to suit you.

Growing your own means fresh greens when you need them, while also helping to save money and reduce plastic packaging and food waste. With summer salad season just around the corner, it’s a great time to start growing!

What to expect from this session:

✓ Discover the nutritional benefits of microgreens and explore the different greens you can grow at home
✓ Learn how to grow your own, with practical guidance from seed through to harvest
✓ Enjoy fresh greens for less and discover how growing what you need can help reduce grocery costs, packaging and food waste
✓ Get hands-on and plant your own tray of microgreens to take home and continue growing.

Please bring a plastic container with a lid, such as a shallow takeaway container, to use for your microgreens.

This Love Food Hate Waste workshop is proudly supported by Auckland Council and delivered by Compost Collective.

Numbers are limited, registration essential. Please register early to avoid disappointment.