Faitem Blog
Microgreens insights
Recipes, nutrition tips, and guides for getting the most from your microgreens.
How to Choose Seeds for Microgreens
Most failed trays start at the seed. What to look for, what to avoid — treated seed, bird seed, roasted snacks — and a two-minute test that tells you whether a packet is worth sowing.
Growing Microgreens in a Condo: Small Space, Little Light
No garden, a small balcony or none at all. Where to put the trays, when a window is enough and when to add an LED light, how to water without wrecking the floor, and the mistakes that cause mould indoors.
How to Grow Radish Microgreens at Home
Radish germinates in under two days and is ready to cut in about a week. Here is the whole routine for a first tray, and what to do with the peppery shoots you get.
How to Grow Water Spinach Microgreens at Home
Water spinach (ต้นอ่อนผักบุ้ง) is the microgreen Thai kitchens already know how to cook. Here is how to grow a tray of it in about ten days, and what to do with it once you cut it.
How to Store Microgreens So They Stay Fresh
Cold, dry and unwashed. Temperature matters more than anything else you do with a punnet once it reaches your kitchen. Here is how to keep sunflower, radish and water spinach shoots crisp.
Microgreen Experiments: Five Side-by-Side Tests to Run at Home
Light, growing medium, watering, harvest day and variety — five fair tests that show what actually works in your space, with a taste-test method and a results table. What to expect is given as a hypothesis, not a result.
Growing Microgreens Without Soil: Which Medium Works Best?
Soil, coco peat, paper towel, hemp mats, sand or plain water — what each one does well, where each one fails, and which to choose for the seed you are growing.
Mould on Microgreens? How to Tell, and How to Fix It
Fuzz on the tray is not always mould, and mould is not the only thing that goes wrong. A diagnosis guide for home trays — mould, root rot, patchy germination, roots that will not take, and shoots that fall over.
Pea Shoots (Dou Miao): What They Are, and How to Eat and Grow Them
Sweet, tender and the most familiar microgreen in a Chinese-Thai kitchen. What pea shoots are, whether you can eat them raw, how to cook them, and how to grow a tray at home.
What to Make with Radish Microgreens — Seven Ideas
Radish microgreens are hot, crisp and pink-stemmed. Seven ways to use them, from a fried-egg rice bowl to sushi, and the one thing not to do with them.
Growing Microgreens to Sell: Costs, Yield, Pricing and Planning
Headlines promise a monthly income from a few trays of sunflower shoots. Whether that is true for you depends on four numbers you can measure yourself. How to work them out before you spend money, and how to plan sowing around real orders.
Stir-Fried Water Spinach Microgreens, Pad Pak Bung Style
The flavours of pad pak bung fai daeng — garlic, chilli, fermented soybean and oyster sauce — with water spinach microgreens in place of the mature stems. Done in under a minute.
How to Plate with Microgreens
Where to put them, how much, which way up, and when to leave them off. The technique chefs use to make a garnish look deliberate rather than sprinkled.
Microgreens for Restaurants — What a Kitchen Needs to Know Before Ordering
Cost per plate, shelf life through a service week, which varieties survive a busy pass, and the supply questions worth asking a grower before you commit a menu to them.
Stir-Fried Sunflower Shoots with Egg
The other way to stir-fry sunflower shoots: scramble the egg first, greens in last, off the heat in forty seconds. One pan, under ten minutes, and a meal rather than a side dish.
How to Grow Microgreens at Home — Any Variety, One Method
The method is the same for every variety. What changes is the soak, the seed density and the number of days. Here is the method, then the numbers for each seed worth growing in Thailand.
Which Microgreen for Which Benefit
"Microgreens are healthy" is true and not very useful. Different varieties concentrate different things — here is what each one actually brings, and how to pick by what you want.
Can You Eat Microgreens Raw? Which Ones, and Which to Avoid
Almost all microgreens are meant to be eaten raw — that is the point of them. But a few varieties should never reach a plate uncooked, and one or two are worth eating in moderation.
What Kinds of Microgreens Are There?
Dozens of plants can be grown as microgreens, but only a handful make sense in a Thai kitchen. Here they are, grouped by family, with what each tastes like and which ones to skip.
Eight Ways to Eat Sunflower Microgreens
A punnet of sunflower shoots and no plan. Eight dishes that use them as an ingredient rather than a garnish, sorted by how much cooking they ask of you.
Garlic Stir-Fried Sunflower Microgreens
Pad pak bung's technique, applied to sunflower shoots: screaming heat, garlic, oyster sauce, and under a minute in the wok so the stems keep their snap.
How to Grow Sunflower Microgreens at Home
Ten days from dry seed to a tray you can cut. The method we use on the farm, scaled down to one tray on a windowsill — including the two steps most home growers get wrong.
What Sunflower Microgreens Actually Give You
Sunflower shoots are the most substantial microgreen on most trays — enough protein, fat and fibre to count as food rather than garnish. Here is what is in them and how not to waste it.
Can You Eat Sunflower Microgreens Raw?
Yes — raw is how sunflower microgreens are at their best. The real questions are what to do about washing, how to store them, and the one part of the shoot worth pulling off first.
Sunflower Microgreen Toast with Lime and Chilli
A five-minute breakfast that treats microgreens as the ingredient rather than the garnish — a thick handful of sunflower shoots on avocado toast, sharpened with lime and chilli.
5 Simple Ways to Add Microgreens to Your Daily Meals
Microgreens are one of the easiest upgrades you can make to everyday cooking. Here are five no-fuss ways to work them into breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Microgreens vs Sprouts: What's the Difference?
Both are young, nutrient-dense, and trendy — but microgreens and sprouts are grown differently, taste different, and carry different food-safety profiles.
The Nutritional Power of Microgreens, Explained
Microgreens are rich in nutrients and packed with flavour. Here's what the science actually says and which varieties pack the biggest punch.
How to Choose the Right Microgreens for Any Dish
Not all microgreens taste the same. This flavour guide helps you match the right variety to the right dish — from delicate pea shoots to bold arugula.