
Discover spirulina as a blue-green cyanobacteria with spiral filaments and photosynthesis. Explore artisanal 2–5 tonne yearly home production and transition to industrial farming, plus its environmental and economic potential.
Spirulina provides about 65 percent protein and all essential amino acids. It features high iron, vitamins a and b, beta carotene, calcium, magnesium, and boosts immune defenses.
Spirulina market shows prices from 100 to 200 euros per kilogram and about 5,000 tonnes world production, with France as a European producer; capsules, tablets, and powder are common forms.
Explore spirulina production at family, artisanal, and industrial scales, covering basins, surface area, tonnage, strains like the spiro filament spirals, and site factors such as climate and water.
Set up two greenhouse basins, eight by fifty meters, with central baffles, rounded corners, and paddle wheels for circulation, keeping basins under 40 cm and culture medium at 20–25 cm.
learn how 50% shade in greenhouse systems boosts spirulina productivity, reduces evaporation, and streamlines harvesting, using a 25–50 micron harvesting mesh and a mineral salt culture medium.
Monitor spirulina cultures by measuring concentration, pH, temperature, and water level daily to assess productivity and maintain healthy growth within optimal ranges.
Learn the spirulina production stages from harvest to filtration, drying, grinding and packaging, including artisanal methods, mesh filtration, drying temps, and vacuum packaging to preserve nutrients.
Renew the culture medium of spirulina by applying table-listed inputs, maintain the pond, harvest, measure growth parameters, adjust water level, and perform heavy metals, toxins, and microbiological quality analyses.
Explore an urban spirulina production model using transparent photo bioreactors. The closed, capillary-driven system with automated harvesting enables scalable, low-contamination production for family, artisanal, and industrial scales.
If you want to grow spirulina, either for your own consumption, or to start a production, this training is exactly what you are looking for to start your adventure.
I share with you my experience with this wonderful micro algae, and we will discover together a strategic sector that has good days ahead, in a world that knows many changes and challenges, environmental and nutritional solutions must be provided, and precisely with spirulina we will together be part of the solution.
However, the spirulina market is in full construction, and its mutation is starting, with regard to the new initiatives noted these last days.
Places are available for new players and new projects of significant size. The dietary supplements market is an existing and fruitful market where spirulina can have its place. The economic potential is enormous, more than 2.5 million consumers of food supplements consume it all year round.
This training is a good opportunity to learn the techniques and tricks of this production step by step:
1. Definition and description of spirulina
2. Why spirulina
3. Analysis of opportunities
4. Market study :
- The international market
- Targeted customers
5. Technical study :
- Home growing for beginners
- Choice of the site (handicraft and industrial culture)
- Study of the site
- Installations and materials
- Spirulina culture basins
- Preparation of the culture medium
- Seeding of the tank
- Production process (harvest)
- Conduct and maintenance of the culture
- Urban culture and professional tips
Here are the interesting points that we will discuss together during the training, and all this in 10 well illustrated videos.
"When a man is hungry, it is better to teach him to fish than to give him a fish"