Located off of Shields and Maroa, you'll find a budding business selling avocado toast but it's what's garnishing the trendy dish that is the main ingredient. "We grow around pretty much everything... broccoli, amaranth, cabbage, kale, pretty much any seed we can get our hands on, we'll grow it," FresGrow owner Rodrigo Rivera said.
Small but mighty, these microgreens are packed with flavor and nutrients. "One or two ounces is almost equivalent to eating almost two and a half pounds of the full broccoli stage," Rivera said
Fresgrow owner Rodrigo Rivera and his wife Narda started the business in March of 2024 while embarking on a health journey. "We wanted to eat a little better a little healthier you know so we came upon microgreens and how good they are for you," Rivera said.
"This is our elote toast. It's going to be our Mexican street corn, its got sourdough avocado, elote which is corn and of course microgreens, pickled onions with cotijo cheese," he showcased. Rivera says, depending on the vegetable, it's typically a 10-day process for microgreens to grow.
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