Build to rent · Developers · Property management · Mixed use
A vertical herb garden for the whole building. Fresh herbs and leaves for residents through the year, in the lobby, the lounge or the terrace, looked after entirely by us.
The opportunity
Residential buildings compete on amenity, and a great deal of that amenity sits still. It looks excellent in the brochure and gets used twice. A living herb garden behaves differently, because it changes, it produces something, and it asks to be visited.
Residents pick, taste and gather around something genuinely alive. It gives them a daily reason to pause in a shared space, and a natural, low stakes way to speak to a neighbour, which is the thing every building says it wants and very few actually engineer.
It is not decoration. It is a productive centrepiece that gives a lobby, a lounge or a terrace an obvious purpose.
The Harvestory insight
Buildings do not lose residents over the specification of the gym. They lose them because nobody knew anyone. A shared harvest, a seasonal moment and a reason to stop in the lobby are cheap ways to turn residents into neighbours, and neighbours renew.
Why it earns its place
Nature, calm and fresh food woven into the walk through the front door. A wellbeing amenity residents use rather than walk past.
A living amenity a competing building cannot copy overnight, and a memorable story for lettings, launches and tours.
Shared harvests and seasonal moments give residents a reason to speak to each other, which is what actually drives renewals.
Instantly understandable in photography and on tours. It is the kind of thing residents photograph and share, which does your marketing for you.
Visible, zero distance food production that strengthens a building's sustainability story and contributes to green building credentials.
Installed, maintained, harvested and replanted by us. No horticultural knowledge required from the building team and no new responsibility on the rota.
In your space
Lobbies, lounges and communal kitchens are frequently the darkest spaces in a building, which is exactly why they end up with plastic planting or nothing at all. Our systems bring their own light, so they work in the overlooked corners and make parts of the building earn their keep.
Plants are rotated with the seasons and the signage is refreshed with them, so the display stays alive and worth stopping for rather than becoming part of the wallpaper.
The formats
Every installation is designed around the space, the people who will use it and the story worth telling there. Start with one, then expand what works.
A cabinet system with real visual weight and a clear growing structure. Herbs, salads and edible leaves at eye level. It suits canteens, offices, receptions and classrooms, and works well as a first installation.
An assortment of culinary herbs for everyday use, grown together in one cabinet. Basil, coriander, mint, parsley and chives, cut and come again, so you take what you need and the plant keeps producing. The most practical starting point for a kitchen or a communal space.
A larger, immersive feature for arrival spaces, dining rooms and flagship sites. High visual presence and a strong signal about how a place thinks about food.
A vertical growing tower with a small footprint and a big presence. Good on terraces, in lounges and at events, and striking when several are grouped into an indoor market garden.
A propagation area so a site can grow from seed and see the whole journey. This is where the story becomes complete, and where deeper engagement and long term ownership come from.
Bringing it to life
These sessions are drawn from workshops we have already run. Pick one to launch with, or rotate them through the seasons. Every one is built to teach, connect and celebrate.
Greens and herbs cut on site and blended fresh. A natural fit for wellbeing weeks, sports teams and recovery.
An evening drinks session where the garnish and the herbs lift something simple into something memorable.
Herbal teas brewed from leaves cut that morning, paired with mint madeleines. The calmest of the five.
Pesto made together from basil cut minutes earlier. Easy, popular, and usually the one people ask to repeat.
Germination and propagation, hands in the growing medium. A grounding introduction to growing from seed.
Common questions
It is a growing installation in a shared space, usually a lobby, resident lounge or terrace, that produces fresh herbs and salad leaves for residents through the year. Harvestory installs it, maintains it, harvests it and replants it, so nothing falls to the building team.
Nothing. This is a fully managed amenity. Harvestory installs, cares for, harvests and replants it, and no horticultural knowledge is needed from anybody on site. Resident workshops and harvest events are available as an option where a building wants them.
Yes. The systems carry their own lighting, which is why they suit lobbies, lounges and communal kitchens that are often the darkest spaces in a building. Those overlooked corners are frequently where an installation has the most effect.
It gives a building an amenity that changes, produces something and asks to be visited, which is rare. It photographs well for lettings and launches, and shared harvests give residents a low stakes reason to speak to each other. Community is consistently the strongest driver of renewals.
Yes. Residents pick what they need, which is the whole idea. Crops are cut and come again, meaning the plant keeps producing after each harvest, and plants are rotated with the seasons so the display stays worth stopping for.
Get in touch
Tell us about the scheme, the space you have in mind and how it is managed. We will tell you what would work in it and what a first installation looks like.
