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Microgreens answers you can check for yourself.
Most of what is published about selling microgreens is confident and unsourced. It reads authoritatively, it cannot be verified, and it is often wrong in a way that costs a grower money. This site exists to answer the same questions with the primary text attached, the deciding agency named, and the date the answer was checked.
What the site holds
- 274
- agencies named across the guides, with what each one does and does not decide
- 1026
- distinct government and university sources cited, every one opened and read
- 60
- guides carrying the date they were last verified
How a guide gets made
Every guide answers the same questions in the same order, so states can be compared directly rather than read one at a time. That is the part nobody else has built.
Step 1
The same questions, every jurisdiction
A fixed set covering licensing, the raw-versus-cut line, water, labeling, tax, zoning, insurance and each sales channel. Nothing is skipped because a state makes it hard to find.
Step 2
Primary sources only
Statutes, regulations and agency publications, opened and read. Not a summary of a summary, and never a content farm repeating a figure nobody traced.
Step 3
Checked against the agency
The office that decides is identified by name, along with what it does not decide, so a reader phones the right desk with the right question.
Step 4
Gaps reported as gaps
Where a state publishes nothing, the guide says so. That is often the most useful sentence on the page, because it stops a grower hunting for an answer that does not exist.
Step 5
Dated, and rechecked
The verified date goes on the page. When a rule moves, the page moves with it.
What this site holds itself to
- The source sits next to the claim
- A regulatory statement carries the text it came from, with its section number and a link, so you can read the original rather than take a summary of it on trust.
- Every page carries the date it was checked
- Rules change on their own schedule. A page that hides its age is asking you to trust it further than it deserves, so the date is on the page and the page gets rechecked.
- The right desk is named, and so is the wrong one
- Each guide names the office that actually decides, and the offices that do not. Most wasted phone calls are to a real agency with no authority over the question.
- The unanswered question gets named
- Where no source resolves something, the page says so and names the office to ask, instead of filling the gap with a confident guess. Several guides end on an open question because the state genuinely has not answered it.
Who writes it
The guides are researched and written by Cal Hewitt, who has grown and individually written up nineteen microgreen varieties and sold the crop commercially for a period, and is not selling at present. Twenty years as a business analyst before that is why operating costs get calculated with the assumptions shown rather than waved away.
That experience shapes the growing guidance and keeps the regulatory work grounded in what a real operation actually does. It does not replace the source. Someone can have grown and sold a crop and still not be the office that interprets a current rule for your facts, which is exactly why every page names that office instead.