Questions,
answered properly.

A vegetable or herb seedling, harvested 10 to 21 days after germination — the window when the plant is at its most nutrient-dense per gram. It is the same seed as the mature vegetable you already know, caught much earlier. Not a sprout, which is younger and grown in water, and not a baby leaf, which is older and already diluting.

Eight to ten days in the fridge, sealed in the punnet. That is longer than most people expect, and the reason is simply that none of that shelf life is used up before you get them — they are cut for your order and go out the same day.

We recommend a quick rinse, as with any fresh produce. In all honesty we tend to eat them straight from the punnet — they are grown indoors, off the ground, with no pesticides and no soil splash.

Better not to. Heat degrades vitamin C and reduces sulforaphane, which is most of the reason to eat them. Scatter them over food once it is off the heat rather than cooking them into it.

Microgreen-specific seed, non-treated and GMO-free, and organic wherever we can source it.

The non-treated part matters more than it sounds. A great deal of seed sold for field growing arrives with a fungicide coating — sensible enough when the plant will spend months in the ground and be washed and peeled before eating. Microgreens are harvested in under three weeks and eaten whole, seed leaves and all, so a coating on the seed is not something we are prepared to put in a punnet. We buy seed graded for microgreen production instead.

We use organic seed wherever we can source it, grow in coco coir, and use no pesticides at any stage. But we are not certified organic, and here is the honest reason why.

UK and EU organic certification requires crops to be grown in soil, in connection with the ground beneath it. That is a deliberate principle about soil ecology, and it excludes soilless and vertical growing by definition — regardless of what seed you use or what you do or do not spray. We grow vertically, in trays, indoors. So however carefully we farm, the certification is simply not open to us. In the United States the same farm could be certified; here it cannot.

We would rather explain that than quietly use words like 'natural' to imply something we have not earned. Ask us anything about how we grow and we will tell you.

Coco coir — a byproduct of coconut processing, so it makes use of something that already exists rather than stripping peat from a bog. It holds water well, drains cleanly and keeps the crop off the ground, which is part of why our greens arrive without soil splash.

Big Shot is the pressed liquid — fermented with apple, ginger, lemon and apple cider vinegar, kept chilled, four weeks of shelf life, drunk neat in one go.

The Powder is the fibrous part left in the press, given its own ferment in a salt brine, dried at 40 degrees and milled. Shelf stable, no fridge needed, stirred into whatever you are eating. Most people who use both keep the shots for home and the pouch for travelling.

Four weeks from bottling, refrigerated. We have tested it successfully beyond that, but four weeks is where flavour and quality are exactly as we want them. The Powder keeps for far longer and needs no refrigeration.

No. Daily is where it works best and that is how we designed it, but this is food rather than a course of treatment. Every shot delivers the same nutrition whether it is your seventh that week or your second. Three mornings a week you actually keep to beats an all-or-nothing plan you abandon.

It varies, and anyone offering you a precise timeline is guessing. Most subscribers describe changes that arrive gradually over several weeks — steadier energy, calmer digestion — rather than on a particular morning. It is food, not a stimulant.

Yes, across mainland UK. Fresh microgreens go out chilled in insulated packaging, cut the same day they are dispatched. Subscriptions include free UK delivery. If you are local to us in Perthshire, orders often reach you within hours of being cut.

Any time, with no minimum commitment and no cancellation fee. Going away? Pause it. We would far rather you paused than had fresh produce sitting on a doorstep.

The punnets are rPET — recycled plastic, recyclable again. We would rather not use plastic at all and we keep looking, but nothing we have tested protects a living leaf in transit the way this does. When something better exists we will move to it.

Our fermented products are unpasteurised and contain live cultures. If you are pregnant, breastfeeding, immunocompromised or taking medication, please check with your GP or midwife first. We would rather you asked.

Yes — we supply kitchens across Scotland, and there is a much wider variety list available to trade including nasturtium, popcorn shoots, red amaranth, micro coriander and red vein sorrel. Have a look at our chefs and food service page.

We do, occasionally, in Perthshire — hands-on sessions covering everything you need to grow your own at home. Get in touch to be told when the next one is scheduled.

They are measurably more nutrient-dense per gram than the same plants fully grown, and that part is well documented. What has not yet been demonstrated is a specific clinical outcome in humans from eating them — that research is still early. We set all of this out properly, including what the evidence does not show, on our science page.