How To Grow Sprouts
And Blend Your Own Mixes!

Have you been wondering how to grow sprouts in a jar that are tasty and nutritious? We have a spicy, savory sprout recipe mix that is perfect to eat in the winter months, or all year long for that matter.

There are so many different seeds to sprout, each with there own healing properties and unique tastes.

We like to mix them up and sprout them together for fun, making big sprout salads on a dreary winter day, adding living food life-force to our meals and mind!

We will get into more specifics on how to grow sprouts below, but basically sprouting seeds is a 5 step process!

Growing Sprouts - FIVE EASY STEPS:

1. Place 2T sprout seeds in a jar and soak overnight.
2. Srain seeds with sprout lid on, place upside down into a container.
3. Contine to rinse and drain for several days.
4. On 4 or 5th day you will place sprouts in a bowl and remove extra hulls.
5. Continue to rinse and place for a few days on a window sill to green.

TOOLS you will need:

• 1 mason jar for seed storage
• 2 mason jars for seed sprouting
• A set of sprouting lids
• A bowel or container to hold your seeds

Check out our sprouting seeds page for more on how to sprout using both the jar and tray techniques. Then you can learn how to grow your own wheatgrass and sunflower sprouts.

Sprouts Recipe Blend:

This recipe is for 4 cups of seeds to store in a 1 quart mason jar.

• 1/2C Clover seeds
• 2C Alfalfa seeds
• 1/4C Fenugreek seeds
• 1/4C Radish seeds
• 1C Broccoli seeds

• Mix your seeds using the above recipe in a big bowl.
• Place in a quart size mason jar.
• Add 2T of seed to 1 mason jar; and repeat for the second jar.
• Soak with the yellow sprout lids overnight.
• Drain into a container the next day.
• Keep repeating this process for 4-5 days.

When the sprouts are big enough you will use the green lid, about day 2. This allows for more air to circulate.

• On about the 4-5 day, you will take sprouts out and place them in a bowl.
• Fill the bowel with water, swish them around (gently) and allow the hulls to float to the top.
• Discard these hulls.
• Carefully lift the sprout out of the water and place back in mason jar.

Be sure not to break the little delicate sprouts or this will cause molding later.

• Discard remaining hulls and seeds at the bottom of the bowl.
• Put red lids on sprout jars and place back upside down in container.
• Continue to rinse daily.
• When the jar is full of sprouts place in a sunlit window for 2 days.
• You can eat your yummy sprouts in about 6-8 days from the beginning of the sprouting process.

You can order your seeds by the pound or buy them in bulk in smaller quantities. We like to keep a back stock of them in our food storage. It is way cheaper to buy them in larger quantities, if and when you start to get serious about sprouting a lot.

Sprouts are a the perfect survival food and the seeds hardly take up any space to store. They provide months and years worth of sprouts and are a good investment for your money!

Because sprouting seeds is easy to do and inexpensive to make, we even sprout when we are traveling. All you really need is two jars, two lids, clean water and a container to hold them. We use the plastic containers that are used for salad mix. The smaller one works great for two jars, they fit perfectly. (See pic)

Sprouts have nutritious, cleansing attributes that seem to uplift the spirit and give you a bit of sunlight and chlorophyll on a cloudy day!

Learning how to grow sprouts is easy in the winter when grown inside a warm living space. The jars will green up on a window sill with minimal amounts of sunlight.

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