BATTLE CREEK, MI — Nicole Hart never planned to launch a microgreens business. But after a life-threatening health battle pushed her to search for alternatives beyond traditional treatment, the 35-year-old Battle Creek resident found healing — and eventually a new purpose — in broccoli microgreens.
In 2023, Hart founded New Eden Microgreens after discovering the potential anti-inflammatory benefits of broccoli microgreens while battling Helicobacter pylori, a difficult-to-diagnose bacterium that attacks the stomach lining.
At age 30, she began having symptoms of Helicobacter Pylori, a bacterium that attacks the stomach lining, causing peptic ulcers and gastritis. Yet it would take two years for medical professionals to diagnose and establish a treatment protocol that involved heavy-duty medications and procedures…