“What's Sprouting?” Mung Dynasty Tour and Lunch

When: Saturday, April 7, 2007

Where: 2200 Mary St., South Side

Time: Noon - 2 p.m.

Tour: Includes a do-it-yourself lunch: A Sprout Wrap and/or Microgreen Salad.

Cost: $15

Reservations: Call Virginia Phillips, 412-343-7354 or email .

Meet the Sprout Whisperer Chris Wahlberg, who grows more than 30 varieties of sprouts ,organic micro-produce, even tomatoes in his hydroponic kingdom.

See rooms of minicrops in the old Duquesne Brewery on the South Side. He grows thousands of pounds of sprouts a week, including chia, corn, peanut, pumpkin, rice, rye, spinach and sunflower. He also sells microgreens, similar to sprouts, but days older.

Chris first sold bean sprouts to Samurai Steak house. He moved Mung Dynasty to the Brewhouse in 1976. Now he teaches everyone from raw-foodies to Pet-Rabbit-in-the-House folks. He’ll teach you too.

REMEMBER TO RESERVE. OUR HOST NEEDS A NOSE COUNT.

TOUR ARRANGED BY SFP’S KARI JOENSON, A WAHLBERG GROUPIE.

Mung Dynasty
2200 Mary Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
412-381-1350 or www.mungdynasty.com.
Hours: 7a.m. to noon, Monday through Saturday