Microgreens World Weekly Digest - April 24, 2026


Your weekly roundup of microgreens science, business, and growing news — April 25, 2026͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ 
Microgreens World - Weekly Digest for Growers, Researchers & Entrepreneurs

Microgreens World

Your weekly source for microgreens science, business & growing news

Vol. 7  ·  No. 17  ·  Week of April 18 – 25, 2026  ·  microgreensworld.com

Top Story

Market Intelligence

A new global forecast just put a $5.1 billion price tag on where this industry is heading — and the clock started this week.

MarketGenics Global Research  ·  openpr.com  ·  April 21, 2026

This Week’s Stories

Retail Expansion

Sunswell Greens Lands Four New Florida Specialty Retail Accounts Including Plum Market and Morton’s

Space Agriculture

Researchers Build Low-Cost CO2 Chamber to Test Microgreens Under Spaceflight Conditions

Industry Advocacy

CEA Alliance Formally Expands Membership to Include Microgreens Growers in 2026 Cohort

Entrepreneurship

Indian Founder Sells Swedish Microgreens Startup and Returns Home After Immigration System Forces Exit

Also in this week’s full issue: UF/IFAS Extension brings microgreens education to Orange County in May, the Sunswell retail expansion playbook your sales pitch is missing, how a low-cost IoT design is cutting NFT water use by 20–30%, and what the $5.1B market forecast means for growers who move now.

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 Editor-in-Chief, Microgreens World, “The Best Information: Tray Tested, Science Backed" Co-Founder of JPure Farms, an earlystartup indoor microgreens operation in Atlanta, Georgia Author of more than 10 books, including "Children of the Soil: How To Grow Nutritious Microgreens At Home in Nine Days" Founder and Managing Editor of MBS Publishing, "Science Writing for the Rest of Us"  Certified Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and over 35 years of writing and researching health and nutrition. Visit my website, Microgreens World, www.microgreensworld.com

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