Selling and business

Thinking about a microgreens business for sale? Learn how sellers state cash flow, what SBA loans require in 2026, and what to check before you buy.

Compare direct thermal, thermal transfer, color inkjet, and printed rolls for microgreen labels, with cost per label, adhesive tips, and barcode fees.

Are microgreens profitable? See what a national grower survey and federal sales data show, why gross revenue is not profit, and how to run your own numbers.

Build your microgreens business plan section by section, from executive summary to financial plan, with startup costs itemized by scale and source.

Learn how to sell microgreens online: pick a carrier and service, pack and cool the box, price the shipment, and follow the rules for mailing food.

See where to sell microgreens beyond the farmers market, from restaurants and grocers to food hubs and online farm stores, plus what each buyer expects.

One modeled crop spans a 19-fold carbon range. Indoor growing beats field lettuce on land by roughly 37 times and can lose on carbon, because the answer is a property of your electricity rather than of the crop.

Put both crops on labor hours per pound and they land on top of each other. The variation between mushroom farms is 10.9-fold, which is larger than any gap between the crops, so the operator decides this and not the crop.

Published yields for 39 of 62 crops run from 1.00 oz to 18.77 a tray. A seed catalog's range is only 2.7-fold, because the commercial world has already selected out the low yielders.