Grow your own Baby Leaf Salad Mix with a little help from Food in Motion

‘You are what you eat’ is a cliché for a reason.

With cholesterol, diabetes and various health concerns on the steady rise, we’ve needed to start paying closer attention to our food, how it’s grown and how we consume it. Food in Motion is an online farmers market that makes it easy to purchase fresh, healthy foods such as fruits, vegetables, salads and greens, as well as prime cuts of meat and homemade breads.

Visit their website to see what’s on offer

An edible baby leaf mix from Food in Motion contains various salad and spinach leaves as well as lesser known varieties for novel flavour in your salads. And now you can grow your own with the leaf mix tray from Food in Motion.

Create a delicious salad of leaves and cherry tomatoes, feta, corn spears, avocado or olives, and a dressing. One tray contains enough plants to supply a household of 2 with greens for 6-8 weeks.

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Cut the outer circle of leaves from each plant when the leaf length approach 5-7 cm. Watch the next tier sprout forth to produce another wreath of dainty leaves reaching harvest stage in 8- 10 days.

Each tray contains 10 of the varieties listed below:

  • Green salad
  • Red salad
  • Baby spinach
  • Rainbow chard
  • Watercress
  • Claytonia
  • Blood sorrel leaves
  • Micro butterfly sorrel
  • Lamb’s lettuce
  • Kale
  • Pak choi
  • Tachai
  • Violas
  • Pea shoots
  • Amaranth leaves
  • Corn shoots
  • Sunflower shoots

Each tray costs R370.

Delivery days and areas

  • Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays – northern suburbs and Midrand
  • Tuesdays – Randburg
  • Thursdays – East Rand

Email orders@foodinmotion.co.za or call them today to place your order.

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