08/26/2026
🌱 My Why. My Story.
Why I Created GoMicroFresh & the MicroGrow™
I’m Tom, founder of GoMicroFresh™ and creator of the MicroGrow™.
This company didn’t begin because I woke up one day and decided I wanted to sell a product.
It began because I needed to change my own life.
I turned 61 this year, and about 10 years ago I started realizing something: I couldn’t keep eating and living the way I always had and expect my body to keep letting me get away with it.
For most of my life, I loved food. I loved eating with family and friends. I was fortunate to stay in pretty good shape despite some not-so-great eating habits.
I used to joke that I had good genes.
Thanks, Mom. ❤️
But when I reached my 50s, things started catching up with me.
My weight climbed to around 265 pounds. My blood sugar was becoming a concern, and I was having to monitor it regularly. I also went through a hip replacement.
Those things were wake-up calls.
I could see where my health was heading, and I knew I needed to make a change.
🌱 It Started With Food
I knew eating better had to become part of my life—not a temporary diet, but something I could actually stick with.
That's when I discovered microgreens.
The more I learned about them, the more fascinated I became.
I remember thinking:
Why isn't everybody eating these?
Microgreens may be tiny, but research has found that some varieties can contain several times—and in certain nutrients, up to around 40 times—the concentrations of vitamins and antioxidants found in their mature counterparts.
They're fresh, flavorful and incredibly easy to add to food.
You don't have to completely change the way you eat.
You can sprinkle them onto eggs.
Put them in salads.
Add them to sandwiches, soups, tacos and bowls.
Blend them into smoothies.
Just make them part of what you're already eating.
That idea really connected with me because I wasn't looking for another complicated health program.
I was looking for a simple habit I could actually live with.
🌱 Then I Ran Into a Problem
I started buying microgreens at markets.
But they weren't always easy to find—and they could get expensive.
So I thought:
Why don't I just grow them myself?
I tried the little plastic trays and growing systems that were available.
And yes, they worked.
But I found them cumbersome. Growing could be inconsistent. Harvesting wasn't always convenient. There were trays and containers everywhere.
And frankly, I didn't want them sitting on my kitchen countertop.
That's when the inventor in me started thinking.
There has to be a better way.
What if growing microgreens could be beautiful?
What if it could be simple?
What if you didn't need a garden or a green thumb?
What if the growing system actually looked like something that belonged in your kitchen?
And most importantly:
What if growing fresh, nutrient-dense food could become as normal as making your morning coffee?
That became my vision.
💚 The MicroGrow™ Was Born
I began designing, experimenting and building.
There were a lot of iterations.
A lot of things that didn't work.
And a lot of lessons along the way.
But I kept coming back to the same goal:
Make growing fresh microgreens so simple and beautiful that almost anyone can make it part of their everyday life.
Eventually, that journey became GoMicroFresh™ and the MicroGrow™.
With MicroGrow, you can grow right on your countertop:
🌱 No garden or green thumb needed
🌱 Fresh harvests in about 7 days
🌱 Grow what you need and harvest when you're ready
🌱 Fresh food grown just feet from where you eat it
🌱 A simple way to add nutrient-dense greens to everyday meals
We officially launched the MicroGrow in January 2026.
And what has happened since then has been incredible.
In our first several months, GoMicroFresh has generated more than $100,000 in sales, and we've shipped more than 1,000 MicroGrow systems.
But those numbers aren't what mean the most to me.
It's seeing pictures from customers.
It's seeing someone's first harvest.
It's hearing people say, "I love my microgreens!"
It's knowing that families around the country are growing their own fresh food and sprinkling these little greens onto their meals.
That's my reward.
Because that was the dream from the beginning.
🌱 And My Own Journey Continues
Today I'm around 215 pounds—roughly 50 pounds lighter than where I started.
My goal is to get below 200.
More importantly, I feel better.
I have more energy. I'm eating differently. I'm paying attention to what I put into my body, and microgreens have become one part of the healthier lifestyle I've built.
People sometimes tell me I look younger than my age, and I'll certainly take that compliment. 😊
I can't say microgreens alone caused those changes or "reversed aging." Health is much bigger than any single food.
But I can say that discovering microgreens helped change the way I thought about food and helped me build healthier habits that I could actually maintain.
That's exactly what I hope MicroGrow can do for other people.
🙏 There's Something Deeper Behind All of This
I truly believe God put this dream in my heart and shaped me for a reason.
Looking back, I can see how the difficult parts of my own health journey ultimately led me here.
Maybe I needed to go through some of those struggles to understand the problem I wanted to help solve.
My mission today is bigger than selling microgreens or countertop growing systems.
I want to help people create simple, healthier habits they can actually stick with.
My dream is to someday see a MicroGrow on countertops everywhere—helping people grow fresh, nutrient-dense food every week and make it part of everyday life.
Not because everyone needs to completely reinvent their lifestyle overnight.
But because sometimes changing your life begins with one small habit.
💜 LOVE • SHARE • GROW™
That's also why we created our LOVE • SHARE • GROW™ Rewards Membership.
It's completely free to join.
When you share GoMicroFresh with friends and family and someone purchases through your referral, you can earn 7% cash rewards.
We already have members using those rewards to help pay for their seeds and growing supplies.
To me, that's exactly what this community should be about:
💜 LOVE what you're growing.
🤝 SHARE it with someone you care about.
🌱 GROW healthier habits together.
🌱 We're Just Getting Started
My vision for GoMicroFresh is much bigger than one product.
I want to build a company, a community and ultimately a movement around making fresh, nutrient-dense food easier to grow and easier to make part of everyday life.
Ten years ago, I was 265 pounds and beginning to wonder where my health was heading.
I never imagined that journey would eventually lead me to invent something, start a company in my 60s and help more than a thousand households begin growing fresh food right on their countertops.
But here we are.
And we're just getting started.
We're not just growing microgreens.
We're growing healthier habits—one countertop, one harvest and one family at a time. 🌱💚
I'm incredibly grateful to everyone who has joined us on this journey.
And I'm excited to see where God takes this dream next.
Grow Fresh. Feel Great!
— Tom
Founder, GoMicroFresh™
Creator of the MicroGrow™
