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By Christine Ouellet it as “magic” and they learned a lot
about farming.
rothers Keshava and Bhima To complete the ecological circle,
BArchibald, age 21 and 18 they also operate a small hobby
years old, are no ordinary young farm where they grow vegetables.
entrepreneurs. They are totally Keshava explains, “We have a
dedicated to organic farming. couple of oxen that we are training
Keshava, who is not short on ideas, to pull farm equipment. We made a
explains, “My brother and I have yoke out of a piece of wood that we
been reading a lot about how to do sanded and polished. That Yoke fits
organic farming. We have some on their shoulders and we tie a chain
friends in New York who have and a plow to it, and we can plow
started a microgreen operation and it the garden. It is a positive result, but
sounded like a fun experience.” mainly it is a lifestyle change that
doesn’t involve mass machinery
A year and a half ago, after much
consideration and brainstorming, and connects us to the land and the
they founded Golokal Microgreens, source of our food in a much deeper
an agri- business that respects the way. Eventually we would like to add
fresh garden produce that will come
principles of organic farming. They
started to grow and market their from our farm to our microgreens
microgreens. Of their sixteen acre-lot business. That’s something else we Golokal Microgreen’s Keshava Archibald at his booth at Lansdowne
located on Highway 15 in Avonmore, want to do.” Winter Market on Sunday February 18th. Photo Submitted
three are used for gardening. He further describes the growing the earliest stage of the adult plant part of the embryo of the plant. The
process. “Growing microgreens is
Keshava and Bhima come from simpler than growing vegetables growing cycle. It takes only 2 seed leaves serve to access the stored
a family who strongly believes in from the ground. While microgreens weeks for the seed to germinate and nutrients in the seed, feeding it until
cultivating and living off your land. can be grown in a “hot house”, produce a plant. You have a small the true leaves develop and begin
They were born in Quebec but when it is not the only way for them to seed that spouts, then a few days photosynthesizing.
they were young, the enthusiastic be grown. Microgreens can grow later it becomes a cotyledon. At this They are living foods, their nutrient
family moved to Panama where they anywhere as long as it’s room stage, there are just two minuscule content is more concentrated: their
started farming. They moved around temperature. We grow all of our leaves called seed leaves and from vitamin and antioxidants levels
the world and lived, amongst other microgreens in the loft of our barn there it becomes a plant.” are up to 40X higher than more
places, in New Zealand and Fiji. where we have an insulated room The cotyledon gets its energy mature greens, they are richer in
The kids were fascinated by the seed in which we regulate humidity and from the seed itself, and so the macro minerals such as calcium,
growing process. Keshava describes temperature. Microgreens represent young sprouts don’t need any
fertilizer or plant food. They are Continued on page 37