Update:  I’ve had several people ask about where to buy a hemp bag.  My daughter, Heidi, planned to make them and sell them on Etsy, but it’s just too much for her with school.  We bought our hemp fabric at fabric.com but ready made bags are available at Amazon.  They can be pricey!  And if that’s just too much for you, or if you aren’t sure you are a sprouting fan.  You can just line your colander with a cotton dishtowel and sprout that way.  Cover the seeds with the damp towel between rinsing.  (Note:  this will tea dye your towel in spots, so don’t use a favorite!)

It’s been more than a year since I posted a video.  I was waiting for everything to be perfect so I can film.   I finally decided doing it imperfectly was better than not doing it at all since it’s never perfect around here.  My children ran the camera, helped with the demo, and screamed in the background.  It was a family affair :). 

I love sprouts!  They are crunchy, sweet, nutty, full of viatmins and cheap!  It’s so easy to do in just a few minutes.  I don’t even have a kitchen sink and managed to do it.  With a hemp sprouting bag, you can grow sprouts as you travel.  They take up very little space and need very little care.  I made mine from 100% hemp fabric from fabric.com.  It’s pricey but I had a coupon and for one yard could make several bags for the cost of one ready made bag?  Don’t want to sew a bag?  You can buy them ready made from Amazon: Sproutman Hemp Sprout Bag  Or if you are doing a lot of sprouts, line a colander with a cotton tea towel and use it instead of a sprouting bag.  It will stain your towel permanently (like tea dyeing) but it works great.  I once did a lot of wheat seed this way that I dehydrated and milled for sprouted wheat flour.

This method works with any kind of sprout.  Watch the video to see how easy it is.  Or watch to see my kitchen in construction.  Or to see me without makeup :).  In the last scene, I had been lying in bed when I gasped–“my sprouts!”   I threw a shirt over my pjs, pulled my oldest daughter out of bed and filmed the last segment.  Now you’ll know why I look like that–bwa ha ha.  But they sure did taste good.  I wish I had gotten a photo of the salad.  It was simple:  Romaine lettuce from Costco, sprouts, dried cranberries, and shredded carrots.  I ate it with my fingers because I was too impatient to find a plate and dressing, yum!