If you feel comfortable to formulate and source your own starter nutrient mix (you can find this information online ), then the 50ml live starter culture is all you need from us to get your Spirulina micro-farm established. With the live starter culture and a few easy-to-obtain items required to set up a Spirulina micro-farm, you will soon be well on your way to producing all the fresh Spirulina you need to keep you and your family in excellent health.
Growing Spirulina is Easy Peasy
Remember, growing your own live Spirulina is super easy and burns very little of your time (a few minutes a day, if that). Once established under the right conditions, your Spirulina basically looks after itself.
When you purchase your live Spirulina from us, you will have access to a precise step-by-step tried and tested growing guide. You also have ongoing email support should you have any questions. We really do have your back with this whole journey.
What you get when you purchase this today:
- 50ml of Live Spirulina culture (Limnospira platensis – formaly Arthrospira platensis). This is the curly variety and is very easy to harvest. Our stock culture is grown on food-grade nutrients under closely monitored conditions, including regular microscopic examinations, to ensure culture purity.
- Ongoing email support
- 1 Free culture replacement if something goes wrong
- Growing Spirulina is completely safe
Farming Spirulina is completely safe because it grows at such high pH values (+10) and so excludes harmful microorganisms that could infect your culture.
Spirulina is grown all over the world and is recommended by development agencies, including the FAO, to be grown in poor rural areas of the world where malnutrition is a big issue.
Pure Culture
Before we ship the order, we check the culture under the microscope to ensure you are getting a pure and uncontaminated product.
Buying in Australia is better if you live in Australia
Spirulina gets its energy from the sun. Lack of sun due to long transit times associated with sourcing the culture from overseas can in some cases lead to culture death (it has happened to us). That’s why it’s better to source your live starter culture from the country you live in.
What’s more, in most countries it’s illegal to import biological material without declaring it to customs. If customs do check your package and find the live culture, they will definitely confiscate it. You can get cultures through, but you do risk losing them.
