ALFALFA · LUCERNE
SPROUTS & MICROGREENS
Alfalfa can be cultivated to both sprouts and microgreens in your kitchen all year.
Alfalfa sprouts and microgreens are also known as Lucerne. The two are the same plant and Latin name for this plant is Medicago sativa.
Alfalfa has a very neutral taste like green iceberg lettuce as both sprout and microgreens. The taste is sweeter the more light, you give the plants.
Alfalfa / Lucerne is a fragile looking little sprout. As a mature sprout it is 10 cm long from root tip to leaf top. It is green and white.
Alfalfa sprouts and microgreens contain the nutrients: A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B9, C, K and Potassium, Iron, Calcium, Copper, Zinc, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Manganese.
Alfalfa / Lucerne is a very sustainable plant as both sprout and microgreens. This is because you can eat the whole plant from root tip to the top of the small green leaves.
Alfalfa sprouts take 6 days from seed to edible sprout. As microgreens they take 14 days from seed to microgreens ready for harvest and serving for your food.