Often forgotten about until it's time to make a plate of food look pretty, microgreens and edible garnishes are at the forefront of Lompoc cultivator Jane Darrah's mind.
"I found microgreens because I was looking for longevity foods. So, this was five-plus years ago before microgreens were cool and a thing ... on the mainstream level, anyway," Darrah told New Times on March 22. "I started growing them for myself, and then I was growing other vegetables that had produced some flowers."
The founder of Good Witch Farm—a cheeky reference to her Halloween birthday—Darrah dug into the world of high-quality microgreens and flowers to boost her failing immune system. She had burned herself out after spending years as a social worker on an assertive community treatment team and as a Court Appointed Special Advocates volunteer.
"I saw basically how food impacted these people directly on the front line, that they didn't have proper nutrition," she said. "I really came to understand how important healthy fruits and vegetables and just a connection with actual ground became in one's healing and one's recovery journey."
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