The kit Grow Meet Mitti Our story Partner with us

You scanned the QR on your kit. Nice!

You scanned it.
Now grow it.

Your Mitti Mate kit has everything you need to grow your very first plant. I'm Mitti, a soldier fly grub, and I'll be your guide.

Start growing I'm a partner

WHAT'S IN THE BOX

Six things. One tiny garden.

Everything is in the box. No shop trip, no digging up the yard. You just need a sunny spot and some water.

Coir pots

Natural coconut-fibre pots. A plastic-free home for your plant.

Coco peat coins

Tiny dry discs. Add water and watch them puff up into soft, fluffy soil.

Compost

Dark, crumbly plant food, made from kitchen and garden waste.

Seeds

Your first seeds, picked to be friendly to first-time growers.

Plant tags

Name your plant, write the date, and keep track of how it grows.

A little booklet

A small, picture-filled guide with every step, so nobody gets stuck.

YOUR GROWING JOURNEY

Four steps. Tap each one when you do it.

The booklet in your kit has the details for your seeds. This is the short version. Tap a step when you've done it, and watch Mitti react.

Mitti says

Ready when you are! Start by puffing up that coco peat coin.

0 of 4 steps done

MEET YOUR GUIDE

Yes, he's a grub. Kids love a little yuck.

Mitti is a black soldier fly larva. These tiny crawlers are nature's compost crew. They munch through kitchen scraps and turn them into rich food for soil.

That's the whole idea behind Mitti Mate: waste becomes soil, soil grows food, and kids do the growing. Mitti means soil. A mate is a friend who shows up.

FOR PARTNERS: WHERE THIS COMES FROM

A kit is the newest thing we've built. The gardens came first.

Mitti Mate grows out of Mission SNG (School Nutrition Gardens), run by the Horticulture Floriculture Society of Ghaziabad. In Ghaziabad's government schools, children grow vegetables that go straight into the mid-day meal. They learn composting, seed-saving and seasonal planting along the way.

The programme has two goals: tackle malnutrition, and make climate resilience a skill children actually practise. The kit takes that same learning out of school and into every home.

schools reached, scaling up from one with district support

35+

schools with fully working gardens

6,000+

children reached through the programme

schools in our 2026 inter-school gardening and composting competition

School and children figures are as of July 2025. HFS has been active in Ghaziabad for 16+ years.

THE MODEL

Two wings, one mission

Mitti Mate

The startup

Home growing kits, compost and soil products, and eventually a climate curriculum that brings what works in our school gardens to every household. The first product is the Mitti Mate gardening kit.

Mitti Mate Foundation

The foundation wing

School nutrition gardens, the inter-school competition, teacher and student learning material, and training gardeners to become climate educators. Open to CSR and philanthropic partners.

What's next

Now

Gardening kit and this QR-linked page

Compost from school compost units, packaged and compliant

Then

Grade-wise climate curriculum for schools and homes

Later

Mushrooms, bees, butterfly gardens and kid-run farmers' markets

PARTNER WITH US

We want partners, not just donors.

If you can open a door, fund a garden, grow a market or build with us, we'd like to talk.

CSR and funders

Sponsor school gardens, back the annual competition, or become an event partner. A school garden costs from roughly ₹30,000 to set up.

Schools and government

Bring a nutrition garden and our learning material to your schools, aligned to the Class 6–8 agriculture textbooks.

Investors and builders

We're building the startup wing now: kits, compost and a home climate curriculum. Co-founders, distribution partners and early backers, say hello.

Say hello

hello@[your-domain]

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