The Truth About Starting A Microgreens Business
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มิ.ย. 2024
- Have you wondered what the microgreens business is REALLY all about?
In this video, I discuss the hard truths I have learned over the years with my experience in growing microgreens!
Do you have what it takes to start your own microgreens business?
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🌱CHAPTERS:🌱
1:01 Running A Business IS Difficult
1:29 High Profit Margins
3:55 Microgreens Is A Growing Industry
5:44 Working With People Isn’t Easy
6:38 You Will Get Rejected And You Will Make Mistakes
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Thoughts? 🌱😆
Yes
haha 🌱💚
OMG UR IN NY! ME 2!
Hey, Donny! 👋 Thank you for your videos, im learning a lot!
I’ve just started growing microgreens by watching your videos, and I am still figuring out ideal environment conditions 😅
As to a beginner grower, would you recommend to go for indoor hydroponics tent OR would you rather make your shed nicely insulated, etc.?
What masterclass do you recommend?
I've had multiple businesses. Every time I made a mistake my business grew stronger. Best learning lessons are never from success but from failure. That is if you analyze what went wrong and how you can improve and implement change.
❤ absolutely 💯
I’ve done some major stuff in my old career in which I was shocked I didn’t get fired. My boss kept me on and I was top dog in a short time.
yes 100%!!!
thats what happens when you bring the real vagina gas!! respect is earned and most people are scared to take risks and think outside the box
Absolutely nothing sounded negative about this. I’ve been running a few businesses for the past 10+ years (most that I own but also have employees for) so that whole thing is a piece of cake for me. I have people doing 80% of “business side” taxes/accounting/ random stuff people don’t even understand. Got handful of people working my businesses on demand and do all tasks that I tell them to (comes with a price). I’m about to drop all my management positions on these businesses and start a large micro green farm. You Donny Greens have inspired me. I have already broke ground on my 5+ acre property in WA state. I’m so damn exited lol. This is gonna be a fun experience. 😊
how’d it go?
@@sxmetrix7414 Still working on it! Trying to learn how to grow first. Ate my own micro greens this morning actually! I have all the equipment to start growing 6 trays at once starting in a few days. Will keep this thread updated once things start rolling. Snow, Christmas/ new years, and vacation time as well as work have delayed this a bit.
get it growin!!!
@@viokosovan322how’d it go brother?
Donny, thank you so much for your videos. I have had a couple of businesses in my life time, and know that starting a business up has its challenges. Thank you for being open and transparent. It’s so refreshing to see and I look forward to watching you next video!
So great you're gifting us so much new content lately. Thanks!
Glad you're enjoying it!! Hoping to stay consistent moving forward 🌱💚
Donny, I really appreciate your videos. Thank you for being honest and telling it how it is. I'm super excited to get started and feel so much more informed.
you are very welcome, much love
SO GLAD I STUMBLED UPON THIS VIDEO. ❤TY FOR UR KNOWLEDGE AND LABOR🎉
Love this 😊 I've never grown microgreens before and just did my first three trays a couple days ago 🌱🌱🌱 so i love your advice.
What about getting the sells ? How did you find a business to buy them ?
Thank you for all your content and realness bless up 🤙
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
My pleasure! Thanks for commenting!
Just bought some trays and a few seed varieties. Slow and steady, the business will come! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Best of luck! One tray at a time 🌱📈
How is it going?
Update.
🌱🌱 you’re awesome don!
Love you!!! 🌱💚
Just found your videos and I am so glad I did! Just getting ready to start growing.
Yay!! would love to have you in my challenge starting May 1st!! Here's the link if you want to check it out, no pressure: onetrayaway.com/
Donny Greens is underrated. Thanks for all you share.
Thank you so much for sharing your exp. Gives us a real pic of what to expect when you get started with a business.
You are very welcome!
Thank you for the information! Really thinking about doing this to supplement my income
Woop woop!! get growing!! if you need help, feel free to join my challenge: onetrayaway.com/
I like your attitude about "mistakes", and no wonder why you are on the path of success. "I love mistakes..." good point!
much love!!
Thank you so much for the knowledge.
you are very welcome
So wise for someone so young. Thank you for your advice.
Much love 🙏🏼🌱💚
I am so ready to do this... I am in love with the having a business that I can grow that is all about growing food, I've always loved having a garden, I have gone thru a ton of health problems and I was stricken with guillain barre syndrome first of the year... I am in a nursing home right now, relearning to walk... Right before I was hit with this, I was talking with social security about getting back to working and getting off of ssi ... So I had no clue as to what I could do, I was an iron worker /welder for 20 years, then I was a land surveyor for 10... Then I had a stroke and have fought my way back, I know I can do a physically hard job like I use to do but I like to work and I love to garden... I love the idea of starting off growing and learning my product...
I have no plans for vacation... I will work everyday growing this.. And as far as starting the business, I had a welding business once, I bought a welder and some business cards and went out there and sold myself till I got it up and running... I did decent for someone with no business experience... Before I had just been a worker... So o get the whole thrill of making it happen, the challenges, and yes the mistakes... I should have hired a manager to run it, I tried to do it all, I lost it trying to save a marriage doomed for divorce... I learned from that huge mistake... So in going thru this recovery, I've been watching many videos, and I thank you for yours... I'm learning a lot from you, and I'm working on the idea of my business plan and business model, and thinking in a flexible abstract way of the many possibilities that will present themselves...
I have to get home before I can start growing, but I'm dreaming of that day... Thank you again...
can’t thank you enough for all the suggestions 🙏
You are very welcome, glad you are enjoying my content!! New video just posted for ya :)
Thank You so much of speaking the truth.
I feel like a fool atm cause everyone is saying having a microgreens business is so easy, but the reality is not for me like that.
We had a loooot of challenges the last 3 years and problems to solve and still struggling.
I hope so much that we will finally make this business work this summer.
Otherwise I feel like giving up.
It caused so much work, stress, every day presence…can’t go even away for 1 or 2 days.
That is also the truth of deciding for this business.
It’s not only easy easy money money.
It’s also hard hard every day work and not the money to pay own bills, cause for example costumers are not paying or canceling orders etc.I am so sick of this situation.
It's a great vibe. I like it!
much love
Dude you’re awesome. My plan was to just grow them first anyway and your video confirmed I was doing the right thing lmaoo
much love, glad that happened!
You are the man, such a clear, concise dose of honesty. I'm month one after the jump, 5 subs and a few sales so a slow start but happy with feedback.
If you have tray ready to harvest brocoli day 10, but no immediate need, do you leave or harvest?
Worried taste changes, and thinking better to be in tray vs cut in containers?
Thanks as always great to have more content 👏🙌🙌
Thanks so much for your feedback, glad you are loving the content and im pumped to hear you are growing and selling!! I would make sure to have everything on a weekly cycle so you know exactly when to harvest and all that. Any extra, harvest for yourself to eat or give it as samples to get new customers! 🌱🚀
Messaged you on twitter about my soil recipe! Thank you for your content! Passionate about microgreens.
I purchased the tray away and got every option! I wanted to give back as you have provided me with so much!
Haha awesome, love this!!! Thank you!!
Awesome! Thank you!
tell me what I need to know about microgreens.
very useful hints
Thanks for sharing your experiences...I also wish to know more about Microgreens business so that I can start my own company..
keep on learning!
Donny!! We need a detailed video from you on how to grow CILANTRO MICROGREENS! We are so desperate to know how you do it! It’s a HUGE seller here where I live and I’ve had my ups and downs with cilantro. So a video would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Donny!
Thanks for the video.
you are welcome!
@Donny Greens I purchased your MicroGreens starter kit last month. It now has replaced puchasing those expensive veggies at lower quality from Walmart / Sprouts markets. I needed to fined a high value nutritious replacement as I'm an OLD DUDE! I have already registered my micro greens company and have setup business accounts at my bank. Now I just need to find that place so I can start growing in mass and educate my community. Thanks for your simple yet effective training. I'm sticking with the hemp matts for now. Ask I ramp up I'll go with the more effective soil mediums.
INCREDIBLE MJ! I love to hear that! Isnt it so cool how easy these plants are to grow?? It makes self-sufficiency so much less of a challenge. Love to hear you are loving the challenge, eating the greens, and even starting the business 🌱🚀 Great work
Thanks! I'm inspired!! Hope to produce ”Mega Green 💚" with you system!
Donny...I very much enjoy your energetic, insightful, videos. And beyond your 'One Tray Away' challenge, where you offer the specifics on Growing microgreens, are you planning on other Offerings, such as specifics on 'Operating a Subscription Based Business'? If not, do you offer some one on one consulting to flush out the details of that focus?
I am going to start this weekend :D.
HELL YEAH!!! feel free to join my challenge, i can show you the way onetrayaway.com/
Awesome videos so far. Hoping to get my family involved and aim to supply some local restaurants within 2024
Hell yeah get growing!! I just posted a new video about doing it as a business in 2024. You may want to watch that 🌱🌱 feel free to join my challenge if you’re ready to dive in and start mastering your growing onetrayaway.com/
Amazing video ❤
Thank you!!
Finally grew my first trays of radishes and peas! They were great and I'm hoping to start a business soon. Now I just have to figure out how to balance the business tasks and a full college load 😅
Love it Jace Thats awesome!!! Great varieties to start with and im so pumped youre starting to sell too. My advice is start small and keep it simple. Make sure you have systems in place to make your life easier 🔑
when you say system do you mean a system of how to run the buisness or a system to automate the farm? @@DonnyGreens
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
you are very welcome!
Thank you so much for sharing and being transparent. People love authenticity ☺️ I'd love to start up a business but I live out in the country.. surrounded by tiny towns. I figure though if I do get started and no one wants to buy from me then I guess I'll just give it to my chickens lol.
haha well its great food for birds, i feed my leftovers to my ducks. Thanks for your kind words!! I think you can make it happen anywhere, its just a matter of morphing your business model around your needs
I ordered all sorts of seeds to try. I am just interested in growing food for my family that will nourish them without being covered with toxins. I even got my self set up to sprout as well. A mothers guilt can rage when you know that the food you give your kids is covered in neurotoxins. My business is my family’s health and that I want to share with my community.
Thank you for this information, although I am not growing micro greens for a business, we have a large family and will be growing a lot of micro
Love that!!! If you need any help, check out the challenge at onetrayaway.com/ It could be really fun for yall !
How many hours do you work a week on average? How long would you say it took before you could take a vacation? New viewer, really liking the content! TIA!
I've got everything setup, got my website up and running with the ability to order online, got my grow cycles down, got awesome sustainable packaging. Now I'm launched and having a tough time reaching customers to actually make purchases. I had some success at my first market but can't get anyone to actually place any orders. I want to focus on direct to consumer rather than stores and restaurants, but its slow starting and I need to make some money soon or else I'm going to have trouble with bills. Any tips? I'm in Northeast Ohio and there are very limited amounts of markets this time of year.
I went crazy with the farmers markets when i first started which helped get the word out. From the farmers markets, i would convert those customers into weekly home subscribers
Thanks for your valuable info , I wonder if you have considered direct sale to customers via a subscription model but I wonder if the packaging and shipping costs could be manageable .
most of my business is direct to consumer. yes it is still profitable
Thank you for this content, helpful. I'm looking into moving into microgreens to subsidize my income. Been a grower all my life, but never as a business until now. One comment about your rejections from past experiences, fickle customers aren't good judges of how to run a business. The customer isn't always right when trying to decide on how to build a business, contrary to popular belief, that's only maybe true part of the time when thinking about customer service and retention.
But I will say this, knowing your Customers is absolutely key to your success. You just have to get good at mining them for key information that will help grow your business. Get good at covertly interviewing them without them knowing about it to find out what is working, what they don't care about, what motivates them, what frustrates them, and so on.
glad the content helps! thanks for your comment!
Need a video on sells and pricing
Yes, I am already starting but in the place where I live the temperatures reach up to 110 degrees, what do you recommend I do?
Donny, when you first started did you start as a sole proprietorship or LLC? I know this is a loaded question depending on the state you reside in. Can you touch on this in a video? If you have already, a link would be amazing!!!
Just got the final of my equipment today !
Hell yeah! What did you end up getting!?
@@DonnyGreens just a couple small racks and a couple lights. Starting small growing a couple trays at a time
Been working on a mushroom and microgreens operation
Thanks for all your wisdom
Sickk i love that idea and how symbiotic they are. Ones waste is the others resource! Ill be growing some mushrooms soon too. What you starting with oysters?
@Donny Greens Starting with blue oysters then lions mane bc they grow in similar conditions
So dope!! I'll be starting with the same when i decide to take the plunge and build the setup!
@Donny Greens Definitely good luck man. They're a lot of fun
Hey Donny, I was wondering if you had to get any licenses or special qualifications to be able to start your business selling microgreens? I've been wanting to try this out, but I don't know if I'm gonna have to get a food handling license or something like that.
I've been researching this and it depends on your state. I'm in California, if I sell out of my home or deliver I don't need any permit or license. Things change if I were to sell to restaurants or farmers markets.
@@whipsandchains1 Oh really that is interesting. Thanks for the reply that was super helpful!
Hello Donny, I have seen in one of you many videos about soil vs Cococoir. I can find it was wondering if you could send a link to where you purchase your grow media? I’m going to grow microgreens first then worry about the business! I would appreciate the link!
You can find links to all the seeds, supplies and equipment I use in the descriptions of my TH-cam videos!
Thanks
How long do you think the microgreens will stay fresh before you have to cut it so it doesn’t go bad and is the refrigerator the best place to store it after you cut it.
yes, fridge. 1 week shelf life
What is sq footage of your commercial space? How much is your overhead costs per month? ( rent/lease,electric,water)
Can you do a video about mixing your own soil?
Hello! Thanks for the plethora of information. I just was curious on what type or licensing or permits needed to grow and sell? I know it varies from state to state. But in your experience, did you have to deal with the health department inspection your operation? Or what was the procedure of getting started, especially if beginning at home
Yes call your local dept of agriculture
thank you
very welcome
Hi Donny, I just got my first deal with a local store to sell my product there. My questions is what is the legal side of the business like? What licensing do you need to sell in this manner?
How to set margin to store owner?
Im also wondering this same question!!
who would you sell these products to and on which platforms? thats my biggest questionmark.
What is your opinion on the Freedom Farms training?
I think Freedom Farmers is trash 🗑️ 😁
Hi Donny, how’s your farm looks now?
It's looking pretty good!! I'll have to create a new update video for sure!
Thank you for the informative videos. Question: It took 9 month to make 4k investment back and then you made 100k in 12 month the following year? That is some growth from 110 dollars a month to 8400 month with in a year. Congrats! What is your yearly growth after 6 years? Wish I had access to that many customers in my area. Shipping micro greens doesn't seem viable. thanks again for sharing!
YEs that is correct and the business has been going great since I got it back up and running this past April! Shipping microgreens is not what you should be doing. You should be working with your local community and delivering with your own vehicles
I used to grow quite a few trays a week for family and friends then I got busy at work and quit growing. Have space and time to start again and an opportunity to buy a small affordable building to make it happen - I'm close to retiring and would love to start building this business and by the time I leave my full time job - be able to ramp up an already good, growing business. What do you all think?
Get growin! Love it! 🌱🚀
Did you get it going?
One thing that's holding me back is all the legal aspects. There are agricultural regulations and complicated requirements to meet the standards. Also, I unfortunately live in a HOA and growing crops for profit is prohibited. I would need to buy a whole new property to stay 100% legal. There's also the costs of actually starting the LLC itself.
You dont need an LLC but yeah get out of that HOA....
Good thing I've owned my handyman business for 24 yrs so in 2 days I hit up 6 of my customers and 4 are interested in the microgreens
Haha thts awesome!
but where did you find so many customers? my towns farmers market wont even allow hemp products
good thing you arent growing hemp!
before starting it as business what licenses and certification do i need?
check with your local dept of ag
Can we grow microgreens in trays made from clay ? ( Want to avoid any microplastics leeching into the microgreens)
try it out!
How did you get customers???
lots of ways. ill make videos on this later this year
Bro thats cool
thanks!! youre cool
In the finding customer stage now need some advice
i will make a video on this later this year
so essentially its like the same thing that happened with the weed growing industry when i was legalized... everyone started doing it... and then eventually it wasnt worth it to do it anymore... and now you have people selling off their grow sites because the price was driven down too much they wernt making much if any profit?
So many products can be made from growing weed
definitely not. not every one is guaranteed successs. entrepreneurship is about being flexible and creative with your challenges
Damn . Wish you live nearby , I will work 16 hours a day for this Job .
haha sorry!
What is your average monthly revenue per customer?
Around $130/month id say on average
Thanks Donny!
👉Failure is your best Teacher👈
After growing Medical Cannabis for 20 years, I'd love to switch to this industry
do it up!! feel free to join my challenge www.onetrayaway.com/
Do you have any contacts that's easy to sell microgreens?
yes
Did some of your employees just start their own growing microgreen behind your back and steal your customers???? Really need help with this
no that never happened lol
Can microgreens cause food poisoning?
Can you get sued if someone thinks your microgreens caused it?
Insurance.
insurance is a good idea. they wont make you sick if you dont contaminate them....
Your website have crashed
Which one? OneTrayAway.com looks like its up!
Who are you selling the microgreens to?
Chefs/restaurants, health food stores, distributors, farmers markets. These are all common sales avenues. Most o my business is home delivery subscriptions - my favorite
Yeah, all the flashy headlines were yours from a few years back😅😅
are you okay lol? Why are you so mad?
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lol! $197! The more I look into microgreens the more I see a MLM scam going on...... :(
Have you ever bought a book? Thats education, so is my challenge and it even comes with materials. Also - nothing here resembles an MLM
@@DonnyGreens your "challenge" is nothing but a slick way to sell your items. Your page looks just like the worst of the MLM pages I have seen, maybe not in practice exactly I suppose but just as slick.....I wouldn't buy anything from you after going to your webpage. People want a more personal experience these days not to be "sold" a hard sell item that talks them into it, so you can sit back and collect the cash from one single effort on your part. It's like a trolling net to see what fish you might catch instead of targeting a specific species. It is a very old way to sell online, and I find it completely unappealing and uninteresting, and I am pretty sure many others you could actually be selling to do too. The only "greens" Donny Greens is really interested in is our green $$$'s. :(
@@DonnyGreens btw, you specifically asked for peoples thoughts, these are mine. :)
Are you Egyptian?
i am not, mostly italian. it would be awesome if i was Egyptian though!
First?
Looks like it! Congrats!
Are...are microgreens a pyramid schem, now?
i dont think you have any idea what a pyramid scheme is
How do I find out if these would sell in my city ? How do I know if the market is over saturated and to not even bother trying
watch the video i posted today. i talk about market saturation
I just need clientele been growing got room and time and supervisor at backyard farms but I'm in middle of nowhere could use help I'll cut whoever in