Master Sprouting:

The Seed Revolution

Correspondence Course

Master Sprouting:
The Seed Revolution

“Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life. If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she’s giving you great company.” ~Vanada Shiva

Master Sprouting: The Seed Revolution is a practical and inspiring course that teaches you how to grow nutrient-dense, soil-sprouted greens in just seven days using simple, low-tech methods. This two-part series shows you how to transform seeds into fresh, living foods that nourish your body, diversify your diet, and reconnect you with the abundance of nature.

Course Overview

This hands-on program reveals the art of sprouting and microgreens without the need for lights, costly equipment, or intensive labor. Whether you have a porch, balcony, windowsill, or small tray, you can grow a continuous supply of nutrient-rich greens year-round.

You will learn step-by-step techniques for soaking, sprouting, harvesting, and enjoying sprouts and microgreens. Alongside the practical skills, each session includes recipe sharing, sampling, and inspiration for bringing these vibrant foods into your daily meals.

What You’ll Experience

▸ Step-by-step guidance on sprouting and microgreen techniques

▸ Hands-on practice in soaking, growing, and harvesting

▸ Creative recipes and tastings to inspire daily use

▸ Simple, low-tech methods for growing food indoors year-round

▸ An understanding of the abundance that one seed can unlock

Imagine the Abundance

Sprouts embody the miracle of transformation. A single square foot of sprouting space can produce up to two pounds of fresh greens every ten days—up to seventy-two pounds annually. By planting each day, you could harvest more than five hundred pounds of fresh, living food in a year. All of this can be done with just fifteen to twenty minutes of daily attention.

Sprouting is more than food production. Each seed carries the blueprint of life, and every harvest becomes part of a greater revolution—a return to nature’s original abundance and a deeper relationship with the food that sustains us.

Your Journey Awaits

Master Sprouting invites you into a revolution that begins with a single seed. This course offers the skills, inspiration, and confidence to cultivate an endless supply of fresh, vital greens while nurturing a lifestyle rooted in abundance, creativity, and connection to the living Earth.

Curriculum

Sprouts & Microgreens:
A Guide to Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less than 14-Days

“One of the most inexpensive, easy to grow and most concentrated but truly natural sources of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and amino acids (protein) known. They are also biogenic, alive, and capable of transferring their life energy to your body. Biogenic foods are foods that, when planted, will create new life.” ~Dr. Ann Wigmore

Part I
The Radical Seed Revolution

1 ~ Sacred Seed: The Seed Revolution

Seed Freedom: A Call to Spiritual Action for Mother Earth
The Secret of the Seed
A Little Seed of Awakening
The Language of the Seed
The Rejuvenating Power of Seeds
Seeds and the Sacred
The Power and Importance of the Seed:
The Heritage of Nature’s Intelligence

2 ~ An Introduction

The Incredible, Edible Indoor Garden
Sprouts Ins and Outs
Air and Water
Darkness and Warmth
Fresh Greens in 7-Days
The Genesis of the Method
The Nature of Soil Sprouts is Counter-Intuitive
10 Reasons to Sprout and Soil versus Traditional Methods
The Difference between Soil Sprouts & Microgreens
Becoming a Daily Gardener
The Gifts of Being a Microgreen Gardener

Part II
The How To’s & Practice

Three ~ How to Grow Living-Food Sprouts

The Sprout Route: How to Sprout
The Jar / Tube Method
The Bag Method
The Tray / Plate Method
The Towel Method
The Saucer Method
There’s Madness to the Method
The Water & All Good Things

4 ~ How to Grow Microgreens

Seeds of Life
Seeds, Grains, Beans & Nuts
Why Microgreens?
What exactly are microgreens?
Why are they so popular?
What’s their actual nutritional value?
Health & Microgreens
How-to-Grow 10-Step Process
Soil versus the soil is growing medium
Trays and Planters
Organic Nutrients
Planting, Growing and Greening
Harvest in storage

5. ~ The Seeds

Seed-by-Seed
The Seed Inventory
Individual Crops

6 ~ The Living Soil

Composting
Vermiculture
Growing Soil
Composting Unit

7 ~ Sprout & Live-Food Recipes

Recipes: Food as Art
Sprout & Microgreen Recipes
The Elixirs of Life

Eight ~ Creating a Microgreen Venture

Scaling Up Your Growing System
Becoming a Community Microgreen Grower
Essential Tips for Starting Out
A Model for Success: Making a Difference

Part III
Supplement Material & Supplies - Appendix

9 ~ Resources & Supplies

Resources & Supplies
Tools & Accessories
Glossary: Germination Termination
Trouble Shooting
Safeguards Against Food-Borne Illness
Q & A
Bibliography
The Author
The Living Centre

This course is designed to provide a solid foundation in understanding the seed, the sprout and a microgreen as an act of seed freedom. This step-by-step course will support and give you the confidence you need to grow nutrient-packed greens for yourself, your family and your community.

Red poppy flowers in a garden with greenery and sunlight.

The Process

Part 1

(The Correspondence Course) It is the home study part of the course. Study the material and do the lessons at your own pace. Send in the lessons through postal mail or email. We’ll check your lessons, comment, and give you feedback on your progress.

Part II (The Advanced Study & Research) Thesis Project allows you to dive deeper into the teachings. Choose an area of study that you feel particularly drawn to in the course that sparks your passion, invites your curiosity, and beckons you to explore. Write a 5,000-word thesis and conduct a research project to be submitted within the course study time. Also, we ask you to offer to your community and document a couple of workshops or lectures to build understanding, expertise and confidence.

One-on-One Sessions

These sessions are available to both support and deepen the learning experience of this course. Ten sessions of 30 minutes each can be done over the phone or through Zoom. These are available to guide and advise you on your research thesis project. You must book these sessions in advance once you have submitted your proposed thesis topic.

Your Guide & Adviser: Shantree Kacera

During this course, you will discover the following:

Grow your own microgreens from scratch
Use the tools you already have in your kitchen and shed to create your mini garden.
Reap the benefits of nutritious microgreens with simple and easy meals.
Begin your own business.
Take the first steps to grow mini-batches.
Grow your production to create an income stream in your community.
Use practices for choosing marketable crops and seeds.
Apply the best techniques for planting, organic nutrients, and watering.
Find your best customers.
Promote your microgreen business and be part of your local solution.
Calculate startup costs and determine the initial investment into commercial microgreen growing.
Operate your micro-farm like a pro by following simple safety and quality guidelines.

Imagine Earning $25 to $50 per lb or close to $100 per kg for fresh organic microgreens. One tray of baby greens averages $12 to $20 in 10 -14 days.

We’ll explore the best ways to grow these amazing, simple, and doable plants in your home. Growing sprouts and microgreens are based on 45-years of experience and research. Use present-day findings to help you understand the benefits of cultivating microgreens for vibrant health, a delicious diet, and a profitable business.

Learn how to plant, grow, and harvest the most nutrient-dense greens available in pots or trays in your kitchen, porch, patio or balcony.

“Sprouts vividly reveal the life force of a seed miraculously coming to life. They are one of the most nutrient-dense foods imaginable; they detoxify the liver, support the immune system (T-cells), and are full of life-force energy. Sprouts are biogenic, alive foods that appear to pass their essence (RNA, DNA) as a live force when eaten. Sprouts contain all the nutrients and energy needed to support a mature plant; when we eat sprouts, we acquire the essence of the mature plant but without the bulk. Growing sprouts in your home are easy to do in any season.” ~Viktoras Kulvinskas, Sprouts for the Love of Every Body

The sprouting, growing and nutritional concepts will be based on Shantree’s 45 years of experience as a sprouted and microgreens grower, live foods instructor, professional nutritionist, personal practice, and observation with his own body and patients. Much of the information you will learn will be based on his research and writings.

Applying the Practice
Homework / Assignments

Homework is sent upon completion of each lesson and is returned to you. You send in your address/assignment one at a time. I review, comment, and support you during the one-on-one sessions as you develop your sprouting and microgreen operation.

Time Completion

You may complete these lessons on your schedule. But to utilize them to their fullest, we recommend you set up a scheduled time to do each lesson; one evening a week or an afternoon on the weekends will keep your momentum going. The average time to complete the course is about one year. Some students have completed the material in 6 months, while others may take a few years.

We do ask that you complete the course in two years. After two years, if the student fails to complete the course within the allotted period, the time-extension fee is $100 for each additional year.

Questions

One of the specialties of these lessons is the personal attention given to your questions and homework. We invite your comments, practices, discoveries and suggestions.

Certificate

Each student who completes the lessons and ALL the homework will receive a beautiful Sprout Master: The Seed Revolution Certificate. The Certificate awarded states that you are acknowledged for conducting a thorough, in-depth study of Sprouting and Microgreens Nutrition.

Lessons 1-7 & An Adobe DVD Reader

This Master Sprouter: The Seed Revolution Correspondence Course comes as an Adobe DVD Reader. The course is easy to follow and keeps your lessons, homework and other course material together. The material and textbooks are sent out when we receive your tuition.

Includes:

Sprouting 4-Week Series
Microgreen 4-Week Series
Sprouting & Microgreen Manual
Course Textbooks
One-on-One Coaching
Course Lessons, Diagrams & Charts

Textbooks for the Course

Conscious Living e-Manual: The Sevenfold Path to Peace, Shantree Kacera, D.N., Ph.D. & Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera, 2002
Sacred Seed: Whatever Happens to Seed Affects the Web of Life, Dr. Vandana Shiva, 2014
Microgreens: An Essential Guide to Grow Nutrient-Dense Organic Microgreens for Health and Profit, ~Gordon Atwell, 2020
Growing Your Living Foods: The Easy Way, Brian Hetrich, N.D., 2015
Year-Round Salad Gardening: How to Grow Nutrient-Dense Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 Days, ~Peter Burke
Sprout Garden: Indoor Grower’s Guide to Gourmet Sprouts, Mark Braunstein, 2003
Microgreens Garden & Indoor Log Book: Greenhouse Plants Microgreens Growth Tracker With Tables, Daily Organic Indoor Crops Report Book, A Great Gift for Microgreen Lovers, Planting journal for tracking indoor seeds and plants, Notebook for the gardener, Jasmin Jackson, 2021
Sprouts & Microgreens: The Radical Seed Revolution- Shantree Kacera, RH., DN., Ph.D.
Master Sprouting Course: Articles, Charts, Diagrams, and Hands-on Practices & Lessons – Adobe DVD Reader ~Shantree Kacera, R.H., D.N., Ph.D.

For hands-on training, see our Mentorship Programs.

“Because sprouts are predigested food, they have a higher biological efficiency value than whole seeds, raw or cooked. Less food is required, yet more nutrients reach the blood and cells. Sprouting increases the quality of proteins and removes the inhibitor factors [like phytic acid]. One of the easiest proteins to assimilate is chlorophyll. The sprouting process, under the action of light, creates it. Chlorophyll is effective in overcoming protein-deficiency anemia.” ~Viktoras Kulvinskas