How to Grow Sunflower Microgreens

Growing your own micro mix is fun and easy! In about a week's time you can have delicious healthy microgreens to add to salads or to garnish your favorite recipes.

Here's what you'll need:
Sunflower Seeds
Quart Mason Jar
Water
Small piece of screen or mesh
Rubber Band
Potting soil
Plastic planting tray or ceramic tray of similar size

Instructions:
1. Put a few cups of sunflower seeds in a mason jar and cover completely with water. Let this sit for about 12 hours.
2. Drain the water and use a rubber band to secure a piece of screen over the mouth of the jar. Rinse the seeds with water a few times and drain. Place on a drying rack or somewhere where the jar can be relatively horizontal and drain.
3. Rinse a few times a day for the next few days until you start to see sprouts form. When sprouts are about 1/4" long you are ready to plant. (Not all seeds will have sprouted, this is okay.)
4. Spread sprouting seeds in a tray of well draining soil. No need to cover seeds, just let them sit on top.
5. Water daily and keep in a sunny location.
6. In about a week your sprouts will be ready to trim with scissors and eat!!
Change soil before planting your next round of sprouts as molding can occur.

How to Make Sour Cream

For this week's project we will be making the most delicious sour cream I have tasted. The process is so simple, you'll never want to buy store bought sour cream again. For our recipe we used Snowville Creamery Half and Half and buttermilk left over from making butter from Snowville Whipping cream. You can substitute store bought buttermilk if you'd like. The recipe is as follows:

2 cups Snowville Creamery Half and Half
2 Tbs. Buttermilk


1. Combine half and half with the buttermilk in a glass jar and shake well.

2. Let jar stand in a warm place for 24-48hrs

3. Voila! Delicious sour cream. Store in a sealed jar in the refrigerator. Don't worry if it seems a little thin at first- the sour cream will firm up once refrigerated.

4. Enjoy you delicious sour cream on homemade burritos, or use in your favorite recipes.