"Respond To Every Call That Excites Your Spirit" -Rumi
My Microgreen Garden was born out of an idea to merge nutrition and education into a simple, joyful, and inclusive journey that helps reignite your relationship with food.
My name is Ian and I’ve been on my own journey of discovery. Born in Chicago, I’m a child of deep-dish pizza, hot dogs and candy. Over time, I discovered the joy of learning about where my food comes from, how it’s made and how it can help (or hurt) my health. This curiosity started me on a path to improve my eating habits, to experience new foods and to formally learn about nutrition at Tufts University Friedman Graduate School of Nutrition. I still enjoy deep-dish on occasion (I am human after all!), but there’s a limitless world of fresh, tasty foods waiting to be discovered.
I'll be honest, I don't have a green thumb! One day I hope to grow all my own food, but that journey had to start somewhere. My fear of failure prevented me from starting a garden for a very long time. But Microgreens changed all that. Learning to grow, harvest and enjoy these tiny plants gave me the confidence I needed to keep exploring. I want to guide others to experience that same joy, sense of wonder and accomplishment. It doesn't take much time, money or effort, but can have a lasting impact.
Today, up to 40% of the food we produce is wasted, yet childhood obesity rates have more than tripled since the 70s. We’ve witnessed the fragility of the food system and can feel like we don’t have control over the food we eat. This imbalance can be partially attributed to our poor relationship with food, particularly at a young age.
The moment we start something for ourselves, we build a stronger relationship to it. Too often, we rely on others to make our food. That’s OK! But I believe the simple act of starting a small microgreen garden can spark a curiosity that everyone can benefit from. If we can grow our own small garden of food, we can use that positive confidence to keep exploring, keep growing, & keep nurturing a healthy curiosity for the food we eat.
First, it starts with a complete kit to grow your small garden of edible microgreens. Highly nutritious, quick to grow and sustainably packaged for you.
Next, we can help guide you to experience new foods, explore sustainable food sources, visit a farm! These can instill a sense of excitement, confidence and curiosity.
You Matter because you’re support helps us teach others. We donate 20% of profits to childhood nutrition programs. We’re also developing a virtual curriculum with educators on healthy food relationships.
To learn more join our community and follow me on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and YouTube for updates, inspiration and a path to grow.
A little more about me (since you made it this far!) - I live in Chicago with my wife, Julia, and our puppy-son, Alfred. We love to explore past cultures through travel, indulge in homemade desserts and simply laugh at our terrible jokes. I have worked in the health & food industries for over twelve years in sales, business management, brand strategy and product innovation. In full transparency, I’m simply a microbusiness (pun intended) trying to make a positive impact on this world. However, this idea could not have come to life without the knowledge & hard work from educators, experts, mentors and people like you. I would love your feedback, both positive & constructive, to help ensure we meet and exceed your needs.
With Gratitude,
Ian
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PRIVACY POLICY
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Collection of Your Personal Information
In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, My Microgreen Garden LLC may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:
-First Name
-E-mail Address
We do not collect any personal information about your unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or content sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To with, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Use of Your Personal Information
My Microgreen Garden LLC collects and uses your personal information to operate its website and deliver services you have requested.
My Microgreen Garden LLC may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from My Microgreen Garden LLC and its affiliates.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
My Microgreen Garden LLC does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
My Microgreen Garden LLC may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to My Microgreen Garden LLC, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
My Microgreen Garden LLC may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on My Microgreen Garden LLC or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of My Microgreen Garden LLC; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of My Microgreen Garden LLC, or the public.
Tracking Use Behavior
My Microgreen Garden LLC may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within My Microgreen Garden LLC, in order to determine what My Microgreen Garden LLC services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within My Microgreen Garden LLC to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Automatically Collected Information
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Security of your Personal Information
My Microgreen Garden LLC secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. My Microgreen Garden LLC uses the following methods for this purpose:
-SSL Protocol
When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and use through this Site cannot be guaranteed.
Right to Deletion
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:
-Delete your personal information from our records; and
-Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.
Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:
-Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our onging business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
-Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
-Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
-Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
-Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
-Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics or privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
-Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
-Comply with existing legal obligation; or
-Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.
Children Under Thirteen
My Microgreen Garden LLC does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
Email Communications
From time to time, My Microgreen Garden LLC may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from My Microgreen Garden LLC or click on a link therein.
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Changes to this Statement
Microgreen Garden LLC reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Visitors' GDPR Rights
If you are within the European Union, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. Those rights include:
We will retain the any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of: (a) you asking us to delete the information, (b) our decision to cease using our existing data providers, or (c) the Company decides that the value in retaining the data is outweighed by the costs of retaining it.
You have the right to request access to your data that the Company stores and the rights to either rectify or erase your personal data.
You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data.
You have the right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data.
To the extent that you provided consent to the Company’s processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to your withdrawal of consent.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.
We require only the information that is reasonably required to enter into a contract with you. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us.
Contact Information
Microgreen Garden LLC welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Microgreen Garden LLC has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Microgreen Garden LLC at:
Email Address: mymicrogreengardenshop@gmail.com
Effective as of September 15, 2020
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