The Farm Starter Kit
Dreaming of starting a microgreen business?
Kickstart your farm, with everything you need to make your microgreen business a success.
All in one single kit.
Including everything you need to grow your greens & your business!
What do you get:
- Our renowned 3 day professionals training (20+ hours)
- Our proven microgreen cultivation systems
- Our extremely efficient germination rack
- Our smart watering grow trays of different sizes
- The best selection of organic seeds
- Growing materials, cellulose substrate and tools essential for microgreen farming.
- Marketing materials, worksheets, profit calculators and other digital tools, step-by-step guides, and much more!
On top of that, we will personally help you on this journey to start your microgreen business with success!
Learn more about the Farm Starter kit
Professional training: all the know-how you need
We started InstaGreen many years ago. As pioneers we learned everything the hard way. We teach you all aspects of professional microgreen farming in 20+ hours of training sessions. So that you know everything from the start!
From cultivation to profitability, you’ll learn all about:
- Growing great microgreens, consistently
- Different species, health benefits and recipes
- Indoor vertical farming principles – that work
- Setting up cultivation systems and processes
- Building a professional farm
- Controlling your climate & your bills
- Regulations to take into account
- Finding your clients
- Running a succesful business
- Finance, branding, marketing, sales, logistics
- Mistakes that we – and others – made
- and much, much more.
Efficient, robust & low maintenance cultivation systems
The Start a Farm Kit gives you our easy to use and reliable hydroponic cultivation system with smart watering trays, automated irrigation and LED-lighting included. Plus our germination rack with smart watering trays.
That way you have the most efficient setup to hit the ground running.
With our cultivation systems, the formula for microgreen LED light and water delivery systems, everything is optimized for healthy microgreen growing, while ensuring sustainable use of energy. So you can use your time building your client base and supplying them your gorgeous & delicious microgreens!
Growing materials to get started
This is the selection of growing materials we also use at our own farm:
- Smart watering trays for the cultivation systems and germination rack.
- Quarter trays, or “1020’s”. Ideal to grow microgreens to cut & pack.
- Cups to grow your amazing living microgreens in.
- Cellulose sheets. The easiest, best & cleanest growing medium out there.
- Organic certified seeds. The selection of seeds that are sold the most.
All you need to test your local market & see which microgreens they love the most!
Our top picks for everyday tools.
There are a couple of other items that you need when farming professionally.
To save you time looking for things like a scale that measures grams exactly, a pressure sprayer with the right nozzle, a thermometer and hygrometer and other small tools, we have added these to the start-a-farm-kit.
This way, you can spend your valuable time on starting your first growing cycles, do marketing and contacting your first clients to show them some amazing microgeen samples!
Marketing materials to grow your business
During our training, we share effective strategies for establishing both online and physical presence. Based on successful experiences, we show you how to tailor your marketing approach to your local community’s unique needs.
We have put together a package for you with InstaGreen picture materials, flyers, posters, cards and more. That you can use for your website, your online posts, printed flyers, and any other communication channel that you choose to reach your clients and grow your business.
InstaGreen quality certification
To show your clients, and potential clients, that you did your homework and know what you are doing, we’ve got you covered with the InstaGreen certification. After completing the training with success, we provide you with this quality certificate. You can put it on your website, marketing materials, online company profiles, where you like.
One-on-one consultancy
Besides the most complete training, we personally help you to get your own farm up and running. From the moment you start, you get private consultancy.
Pick our brains on the most crucial topics you want help with. Whether that is looking at your floorplans, giving feedback on plants growing, your brand development, advising on what to do when you encounter some challenges when growing.
Together we make your new business a success!
Proud to work with enthusiasts around the world!
“The professionals training was such an incredible and fun experience. It was packed full of invaluable information and the ongoing support and communication I have received also after the training has given me so much confidence moving forward with my business!”
“The training is amazingly well thought-out, very open and honest about successes and failures and extremely well explained. Let’s say this course has saved us YEARS. After 3 days of training we feel ready to tackle years of a new business.
Thank you!”
“You couldn’t ask for a better training programme! It was extremely well run, professional with a positive forward-thinking attitude. The training is given in a way that makes it enjoyable and full of so much important knowledge, hands-on experience and tips to ensure our microgreen farm also is a real success.”
What motivated others to become an urban indoor microgreen farmer:
- Being an active member of my local community.
- Combining my love for agriculture while enjoying city life.
- Work on the future of food.
- Growing a business while taking care of my family
- Combining health, food and sustainability.
- Get out of the office and do something active instead.
- Reduce stress by getting a better work-life balance.
- Working in hospitality sector, without the crazy hours.
- Help solve global problems, by acting local.
- Let the entrepreneurial flame awaken in you.
And you? What are your reasons?
Let’s talk about how to make it happen!
About our journey into Urban Farming
Years back, our farm in Barcelona started to inspire others. What was initiated as a local farming research project in 2012, blossomed into a full-scale business.
Besides farming ourselves, we began to help and teach people from Europe to North and South America, to Afrika. Soon after, we also started to build our in-house developed cultivation systems for other farms. Supplying our growing trays and cups, our substrate, our organic seeds, and more ….
Now, we entirely dedicate ourselves to helping enthusiastic entrepreneurs all over the world to set up and run their own local thriving microgreen businesses.
And we love spreading the local farming movement, globally!
These are the topics we cover during your training:
Day 1:
How to grow microgreens
Day 2:
Growing space & systems
Day 3:
The microgreen business
Bonus:
Let’s work on your business !
Learn by doing
We strongly believe that the best way to learn is by doing! Therefore we do not only teach the theory and show you how we do everything. We let you practice what you learned and guide you along the way.
Build a sustainable business
Building a sustainable business also means ‘financially sustainable’. We show you how to earn up to €6.240 per month per cultivation system.
First hand experience
We walked the walk and learned many lessons the hard way. We also received loads of help, from amazing people and startup-accelerators. You can take advantage of all this know-how and experience.
On top of that you get all tools and materials:
Seeding prediction tool
Use it to plan how much you need to seed today so that you have what your clients will order in 1, 2 or 3 weeks.
Cultivation and grow cycle schemes
Organise the cultivation of your microgreens. From seeding to ‘ready to sell’.
Microgreen starter materials
Start growing! Test the response of your local market to different types of microgreens.
Daily and weekly checklists
Helps you to sleep at night, because you know that you have done everything you had to do.
Profitability calculator tool
Use this to make wise decisions on pricing, capacity needs, scaling up, clients, ROI etc.
The ultimate sales guidelines
Helps you get the clients that you want, without being ‘that annoying salesperson’.
Floorplan configuration tool
From shipping containers or your garage to larger spaces, these examples will help you to decide on your plan.
Marketing materials
A great selection of materials to use for your marketing. Material such as designs, photos, brochures, presentations, texts, posters.
The Farm Starter Kit comes in 2 configurations:
| Farm starter kit – small |
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| € 5.950 excl. VAT & shipping cost |
| Total value € 7.400 – you save € 1.750 |
| Capacity for 2080 cups / month |
| 3-day professionals training |
| 4 hrs private consultancy |
| 1 x Cultivation system |
| 1 x Germination rack |
| 12 x Smart watering trays |
| 10 x 1020 trays / quarter trays / flats |
| 3024 Cups |
| 3800 Cellulose substrate sheets |
| 7 bags of seed |
| Digital microgreen busines tools |
| Digital marketing kit |
| Physical microgreen farming tools |
| Farm starter kit – normal |
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| € 9.960 excl. VAT & shipping cost |
| Total value € 12.800 – you save € 2.840 |
| Capacity for 4160 cups / month |
| 3-day professionals training |
| 8 hrs private consultancy |
| 2 x Cultivation system |
| 1 x Germination rack |
| 24 x Smart watering trays |
| 20 x 1020 trays / quarter trays / flats |
| 9.072 Cups |
| 11.400 Cellulose substrate sheets |
| 11 bags of seed |
| Digital microgreen busines tools |
| Digital marketing kit |
| Physical microgreen farming tools |
Download the digital brochure of the Farm Starter Kit.
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the Farm Starter Kit.