Kale Microgreens — Charleston, SC

Mild and slightly sweet, with a sturdier leaf than the rest.

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

Kale microgreens are grown on Johns Island, South Carolina by The MicroGreens Farm and sold across the Charleston area. They are mild, sweet and faintly earthy, 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: soup, eggs, sausage, roast vegetables, toast.

Kale-type microgreens growing densely in a tray at The MicroGreens Farm, Johns Island SC — Kale growing at The MicroGreens Farm on Johns Island.

What kale microgreens taste like

Kale microgreens are mild, faintly sweet and a little earthy, with none of the toughness or bitterness of mature kale. The leaf holds its shape better than most, which makes it the brassica to reach for when the food is hot.

At a glance

	Kale
Flavour	Mild, sweet and faintly earthy
Heat	None
Ready to cut in	8–12 days
Best on	Soup, eggs, sausage, roast vegetables, toast
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

Stirred into soup at the end, where it holds up
On eggs, with sausage or bacon
Over roast vegetables straight out of the oven
On buttered sourdough toast with flaky salt

How to buy kale 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 kale

Do kale microgreens taste like kale?

Like a milder, sweeter version. The bitterness and the chew people associate with mature kale develop later, so what you get is the green, mineral flavour without the work of massaging a salad.

Can I cook kale microgreens?

Briefly. They are sturdier than most microgreens but they will still collapse in a hot pan given more than a few seconds. Add them off the heat, or at the very end.

See Living Tray Prices

Or order cut greens from $6 · 843.212.6932

Cook with it

White Bean and Sausage Soup with Kale Microgreens

The one recipe here where a microgreen goes into hot food and survives. Kale microgreens hold their shape in a bowl of soup where every other variety would give up.

40 min total · makes 4 servings · Weeknight

See the Recipe

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