Cantaloupe Melon Microgreens — Charleston, SC

The strange one. Faintly sweet, cool, and unlike anything else in the tray.

Grown on Johns Island · Delivered from James Island · Across the Lowcountry

Cantaloupe Melon microgreens are grown on Johns Island, South Carolina by The MicroGreens Farm and sold across the Charleston area. They are cool and faintly sweet, like melon near the rind, and ready to cut in 8–12 days. Sold as a cut-to-order clamshell from $6, or as a living tray you cut yourself. Best on: prosciutto, goat cheese, cold soups, gin.

Melon microgreens with thick paired leaves growing in a tray at The MicroGreens Farm, Johns Island SC — Cantaloupe Melon growing at The MicroGreens Farm on Johns Island.

What cantaloupe melon microgreens taste like

Thick paired leaves with a cool, faintly sweet flavour that reads as somewhere between cucumber and melon rind. It is the variety people do not expect and the one chefs get most interested in, because there is nothing else that tastes like it at this size.

At a glance

	Cantaloupe Melon
Flavour	Cool and faintly sweet, like melon near the rind
Heat	None
Ready to cut in	8–12 days
Best on	Prosciutto, goat cheese, cold soups, gin
Sold as	Cut clamshell from $6, or a living tray
Grown	On Johns Island, in trays under light, cut above the soil line

Four ways to use it

With prosciutto, doing the job the melon usually does
On goat cheese or burrata with olive oil
In a cold cucumber or gazpacho-style soup, added at the table
As a garnish on a gin drink — it works, and it looks deliberate

How to buy cantaloupe melon microgreens in Charleston

Three ways. Cut to order in a clamshell, ready to use. As a living tray, still growing, that you cut yourself over one to two weeks. Or at a market — Sea Island Farmers Market on Johns Island on Saturdays, the Pour House on James Island on Sundays, plus Kiawah on Mondays, Mount Pleasant on Tuesdays and Park Circle on Thursdays.

Availability moves with the seeding schedule, so text 843.212.6932 if you want this variety specifically and we will seed a tray toward your delivery.

Questions about cantaloupe melon

Does it actually taste like cantaloupe?

Not like the ripe fruit. It tastes cool and green and faintly sweet, closer to the flesh near the rind than the middle of the melon. The flavour is subtle, so put it somewhere it will be noticed rather than burying it.

Is cantaloupe microgreen always available?

It is on the rotation but it is not a high-volume variety, so availability moves week to week. Text 843.212.6932 or ask at market if you specifically want it and we will seed a tray toward your delivery.

See Living Tray Prices

Or order cut greens from $6 · 843.212.6932

Cook with it

Prosciutto with Cantaloupe Melon Microgreens

Prosciutto e melone with the melon replaced by melon microgreens. Three ingredients, no cooking, and the most surprising thing on this list.

10 min total · makes 4 servings · Chef

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