The most common question we get from prospective subscribers is not about price, varieties, or delivery zones. It is which cadence to pick. The answer is so dependent on individual household behavior that no algorithm gets it right first try. The honest path is a 30-day test.
The Two Cadences, Side by Side
Weekly: 8oz tray every 7 days. $20 per delivery, billed $80 per 4-week cycle. Better fit for households that consume fresh greens daily, families with 3 or more eaters, anyone running a high-protein or high-vegetable diet, juice and smoothie regulars.
Biweekly: 8oz tray every 14 days. $20 per delivery, billed $40 per 4-week cycle. Better fit for couples, single eaters who use greens 3 to 5 days per week, households who supplement with farmers market visits, anyone who travels frequently.
Same tray. Same price per delivery. The only variable is how fast your fridge clears.
The Two-Question Diagnostic
If you can answer these honestly, you can pick correctly the first time:
1. How many days per week does your household eat fresh greens? If 5 or more, weekly. If 3 to 4, biweekly. If less than 3, microgreens are not the right product. Buy what you eat.
2. How often does fresh produce go bad in your fridge before you finish it? If "never" or "rarely," weekly is safe. If "regularly," start biweekly. Microgreens last 10 to 14 days in cold storage, so biweekly buys you the buffer.
Real Households, Real Cadence Choices
Maria, family of 4 in Doylestown: weekly. Two kids who eat sandwiches with sunnies. Two adults who lean on smoothies. The 8oz tray lasts 5 days, and the next one lands the day before they run out. Right cadence first try.
Tom, two adults in Conshohocken: started weekly, switched to biweekly after 6 weeks. The first month, the trays piled up. They were still finishing one when the next arrived. Biweekly fixed the rhythm and dropped his cost in half.
Priya, single in Center City: biweekly with rotation pause for travel. She uses greens daily for 3 weeks, then travels for 1 week, then rotates back. Pause skip handles the travel pattern. Biweekly + pause = right cadence.
How to Switch Without Losing Anything
Cadence is not a permanent commitment. Log into your account, change weekly to biweekly or vice versa, save. The next billing cycle reflects the new cadence. No fee, no waiting period, no "we are sorry to see you go" prompt. We do not call to retain you on the old cadence. Your fridge gives you better information than our retention team would.
The Edge Case: Skip a Single Delivery
Going on vacation, hosting a houseguest who eats nothing but bagels, or just have too much in the fridge that week? Skip a single delivery in two clicks from the account. Resume picks up automatically the following week. Pause for up to 90 days if it is a longer break. The system is built for the way real households actually function.
The Recommendation
If you are honestly unsure, start weekly. Most households underestimate how fast they go through good greens once the trays are arriving fresh. If after 4 weeks the trays are stacking up, switch to biweekly. If the opposite, you already are in the right place.
The fridge tells you in three weeks. The math you cannot run from a website settles itself.