7 Home Growing Kits To Nourish Your Apartment & Your Appetite

Apartment gardening is blooming globally, sprouting a 65% increase among Millennials and a 44% increase among Gen Z.

Of those grower newbies, 49% said it was for mental health, while 35% said it was for more family time.

Plant grow kits are cheaper than therapy, AND you get delicious, edible yields.

Not to mention they actively help shape a more sustainable food system rather than the current one fraught with the issues of industrialization.

So, what comes in a grow kit?

There are all kinds of plant starter kits, from app-enabled e-seed planting kits to simple succulent planting kits, and more. Here are a couple of our faves to wet your appetite.

Modern Sprout’s Seed Grower Kits

Price Range: $9–$25

Chicago-based Modern Sprout empowers the busy modern city-dweller to sprout an indoor garden thanks to their simple plant starters, seed kits, and hydroponic kits.

We love their creative ideas for kits, like their Cosmic Seed Kit, Mexican Salsa Verde Garden Kit, Santorini Seasoned Salt Garden Kit, and Parisian Cut Flower Garden Kit.

If tried, tested, true, and affordable is what you need, their Tiny Terracotta Planter Kit is a nearly foolproof flower planting kit available for daisies, poppies, or lavender. Simply add water and watch them grow.

About Modern Sprout

Modern Sprout trades plastic-heavy packaging and generic fertilizers for organic and regenerative materials via reusable terra-cotta or recycled glass containers.

In turn, this enables you to go green indoors in more ways than one.

Everything features zero GMOs, is ethically crafted in the USA, and ships in recyclable materials. To date, they’ve planted 50,000 trees with American Forests.

Spade To Fork’s Organic Herb Garden Seeds Kit

Price Range: $30–$60

Fill your plates with flavor and your kitchen counter with fresh green life thanks to Spade To Fork.

The Farmer’s Organic Indoor Herb Garden features USDA-certified organic heirloom seeds (sweet basil, Italian parsley, sage, cilantro, and thyme), OMRI organic compostable peat pots, and OMRI organic potting soil discs, along with burn-engraved plant markers and a simple how-to guide.

Everything comes bundled in sustainable, eco-friendly, plastic-free packaging.

About Spade To Fork

Oregon-based and family farm-run, Spade To Fork is on a mission to resurrect home farming by providing simple starter and seed kits, plus organic fertilizers and potting soils.

No spades required here folks: their locally made kits are straightforward, which makes them perfect organic planting kits for beginners.

In their own words, “Having a toxic-free and healthy farm is important for our health and our planet’s. We want to leave a better place for our children and the future generations. Thank you for being a part of this quiet revolution!”

Rise Gardens’ Complete Growing Kits

Price Range: $279–$749

Flexing your green thumb from the comfort of your couch was never more fruitful thanks to Rise Gardens’ elegant and modern hydroponic growing kits.

These green kits get the green thumbs up for being nearly fool-proof, so fear not if you’re a terrible plant parent.

Of their four models, we recommend the fairly-priced and easy-to-assemble Personal Rise Garden, which can grow up to twelve plants year-round, with yields as soon as 30 days.

All systems connect to the internet, and with their mobile app, plant needs are tracked, such as water, nutrients, and planting-to-harvest lifespan.

Many of their seeds are organic, but they don’t specify which ones. The seed pods unfortunately aren’t peat-free (since peat is endangered) but it’s used in minimal amounts.

About Rise Gardens

Living room farm to dining room table is the awesome condo-farming approach that Rise Gardens provides.

Rise is passionate about food waste solutions, publishes Sustainability Impact Reports, uses plastic-free packaging, and regularly reduces plastic use.

Fleur Du Bien’s Herb Planting Kits

Price Range: $50–$100

Fleur Du Bien translates to “flower of good,” which is exactly what this Etsy brand provides with their eco-conscious line of indoor grow kits.

Our favorite is their Indoor Herb Garden Kit, which comes complete with ten non-GMO herb seed packs for fresh cooking (basil, thyme, chives, parsley, cilantro, mint, dill, rosemary, arugula, oregano), handmade bamboo windowsill planter, biodegradable growing pots, organic soil disks, plant markers, and instructions.

With over 150 5-star reviews, you can be sure it’s an attractive, high-quality item that produces delicious and nutritious garden yields.

About Fleur Du Bien

Fleur Du Bien consciously aims to improve the brand’s impact on climate, resources, and waste, which is why every product is organic or from natural sources.

All packaging is recyclable and single-use plastic-free, and the brand offsets its carbon footprint through planting trees

Urban Leaf’s Microgreens Grow Kits

Price Range: $2–$80

Urban Leaf prides themselves on grow kits that teach city people how to grow things indoors.

As they say, “If you are looking for a machine to produce basil for you like Nespresso produces coffee, then we are not the right company for you.”

Their products lack gadgetry, which can deprive us of the very experience ecological gardening is meant to provide.

Instead, they offer tiny hydroponic Aerogarden kits, herb garden kits, and the Organic Microgreens Growing Kit.

Microgreens harvest within just two weeks, have low light requirements, and are packed with 40x the nutrients of their adult versions.

Unlike traditional gardening, the kit requires zero soil, nutrients, or fertilizers.

About Urban Leaf

NY-based Urban Leaf was started by Nathan, who is passionate about the intersection of food, technology, and the environment.

Today, Urban Leaf is a five-person eco-warrior team helping gardeners of all skill levels cultivate fresh food.

All products come with a green thumb guarantee, so if you can’t get blooming, they’ll send more seeds free of charge.

They’re the first gardening company to set ‘Net Negative’ emissions targets (aided by Etys’s carbon-neutral shipping), and are currently pursuing a B Corp certification.

Oakland Mushroom Co.’s Grow Your Own Mushrooms Kit

Price Range: $13–$14

What is the best mushroom growing kit?

You don’t need to hail from Oakland—or be a mycologist—to enjoy the fun(gi) benefits of Oakland Mushroom Company’s organic mushroom grow kits.

Most popular is their Lion’s Mane Mushroom Grow Kit, which is ready to go right out of the box. Simply add water, soak, drain, and watch the spores grow up to 2-3 flushes.

They also offer popular oyster mushroom kits for blue and pink oyster mushrooms.

About Oakland Mushroom Co.

Oakland Mushroom Co. specialized in complete grow kits for mushrooms.

Reviews are highly positive for their fast shipping, prompt and friendly communication, excellent directions, and pre-growth prep of mycelium.

Owner Andrew has a wealth of information for anyone who requires it.

UpRoot Design Studio’s Plant & Herb Growing Kits

Price Range: $4–$125

Uproot unjust food systems and grow an edible garden thanks to Uproot Design Studio’s artfully garden seed kits.

If you’re looking for simple mini planting kits for kids or beginner planters, these come without any smart system—just a condensed soil brick, organic and non-GMO seeds, and peat paper pots that can be directly planted in another pot or your garden once the sprouts are big enough.

There are various grow kit options for houseplants, herbal teas, leafy greens, veggies, and flowers.

All their ethical seeds are batch-tested for viability and packed fresh to ensure top germination rates, grown by US-based responsible growers, and hand-packed in adorable reusable tins.

Kits also feature a whimsy plant meditation card and gardening mindfulness journal, making them a great gift.

About UpRoot Design Studio

Brooklyn-based Uproot Design Studio was started by artist, composer, activist and urban gardener Julia Barry, whose concern about the health of humanity prompted her to cultivate “irresistibly joyful” planting starter kits.

Julia sustainably produces everything with only green techniques and non-toxic materials.

10% of profits go to local farms, wildlife protection, and environmental justice.