Welcome to Our Healthy Journey

Healthy habits are easier to keep up when they are attached to something concrete you can grow and eat. That is the observation this project started from. The project itself, though, is not a health programme: it is a body of free, openly licensed teaching material built around one crop that almost anyone can grow in a week or two on a windowsill — microgreens.

What we actually publish is free online courses, a crop database, step-by-step growing guides and a Science Library that reports what the published research says — including the places where the evidence is thin, contested, or simply absent. Everything we write ourselves is released under CC BY 4.0 so that teachers, trainers and youth workers can reuse and adapt it; third-party material we include — photographs, illustrations, embedded media and the open-access research we summarise — stays under its own licence, as set out in our Terms of Use. We do not promise health outcomes, and when we get something wrong we say so on the page itself.

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Claims we removed from this page

Updated 30 July 2026. An earlier version of this page said the project focused on “promoting superfoods — especially microgreens — as a simple yet powerful way to improve health”, that our material would help you “feel better and live longer”, that we use microgreens in meals “to improve health”, and it listed “health & disease prevention” and “beauty and skincare routines” among the roles microgreens play. We have removed all of that. “Superfood” is a marketing word with no scientific or regulatory meaning. We have no evidence that eating microgreens extends anyone’s life, prevents any disease or improves anyone’s skin, and none of those statements carried a source. Nothing has been left as a gap: the rest of this page now describes what the project does instead of what we hoped it would achieve. See our editorial standards.

What Is a Healthy Lifestyle?

According to Reverso’s English dictionary, a healthy lifestyle is:

“A way of living that promotes good health.”

In everyday terms that usually means:

Eating balanced meals
Exercising regularly
Caring for your mental health
Making choices you can sustain over years, not weeks

That is a description of a way of living, not a claim about any particular food. Microgreens are one small, cheap, fast ingredient that can sit inside it.

How We Define a Healthy Lifestyle

We asked our team what a healthy lifestyle means to them. The conclusion? It’s not just about diet or fitness. It’s about building sustainable habits that support your whole being.

A healthy lifestyle means practicing daily self-care, making smart food choices, staying physically active, and creating time for rest and reflection. It includes taking care of our mental well-being, surrounding ourselves with a supportive environment, and feeling good — both in body and soul.

We believe that time is essential. Health also means having time for yourself — to grow, to relax, and to recharge. That is a value we hold, not a research finding, and we have kept it on this page as such.

From Words to Action

Our project is more than just ideas — we work with the crop we write about. That’s why we:

Grow microgreens as part of our daily routine, so the guides describe trays we have actually run
Cook with them and publish the results in our Cookbook
Host educational workshops to teach others how to do the same
Promote eco-conscious living and home-growing practices

We believe in leading by example and showing how small steps can bring big changes.

What Are Microgreens?

If you’re asking, “What are microgreens?”, here’s a simple answer:

Microgreens are the young, edible seedlings of vegetables and herbs. They’re harvested 7–21 days after germination and are:

Dense in flavour and colour for their size
Fast — a crop from seed to plate in about two weeks
Easy and cheap to grow indoors, without a garden

Those three properties — small, fast, cheap — are why we build teaching material around them. Here is where the project puts them to work:

Vocational and adult education — a full growing cycle fits inside a single course
Schools and youth work — hands-on science and sensory learning on a classroom windowsill
Culinary work — flavour, texture and plating, in our Cookbook
Nutrition education — reading what composition studies measured, and what they did not
Sustainability and home growing — short supply chains, little water, no land
Small-scale enterprise — see growing for business

Curious how to grow your own? Check out our Microgreens Growing Guide

Learn More, Grow More

Join us as we work through what is known about microgreens, what is still open, and how to grow them well. Everything here is free to use and free to reuse.

Read what the research actually says — our Science Library

Take a free course at the EVEC Microgreens Academy

General healthy-eating guidance from Harvard Health — an independent source, not ours