SUN JOURNAL • March 15, 2020
Jesse Tannenbaum and Jessica Roberts started farming four years ago with four raised beds on a quarter-acre residential lot on a busy Lewiston street. Eli’s Homestead has grown in the years since to 25 beds, plus a greenhouse and 50 chickens. The couple have just invested in what they hope is a new, year-round addition: Farming microgreens in a room of their 1920 Sabattus farmhouse. The nutrient-dense little sprouts can be harvested in as little as three days. Tannebaum has planted radishes, broccoli, kohlrabi, greens, edible flowers, sunflower shoots, kale, red cabbage and other vegetables in a warm room with a bright violet LED-light glow.