Urban Arva Chennai · Idea stage

For growers

You already do the hard part. We'll do the rest.

A terrace garden needs water, attention, and about twenty minutes a day. The one thing it has never had is somebody on the other end who will buy what it produces. That is the part we are building.

What you get

Not just a buyer. A whole side of support.

Buying your surplus is only half of it. We would rather help you get the garden working in the first place, because a terrace that produces well is worth more to both of us.

We do it

We buy the surplus

You keep whatever your family eats. We take only what's left over — and we carry the loss if it doesn't sell.

We do it

We do the harvesting

Our person cuts it, weighs it in front of you, and hands you a docket. Price agreed before we leave.

Together

Help setting the garden up

Grow bags, media, how to lay out your terrace, and what will actually grow in the sun and water you have.

We do it

Inputs in one place

Compost, neem oil, seeds and the rest at our rate. No chemicals — that's the one condition.

Together

Someone to ask

Yellowing leaves, a pest you can't name, a plant that won't fruit. A person who answers the same day.

You do it

Visits to gardens that work

Scheduled trips to established terrace gardens around the city. One afternoon at a garden that works beats ten videos.

What we ask

Four conditions, and only one of them is strict

No chemicals. At all.

This is the entire product. One pesticide spray on one plant and nothing from that terrace can be sold honestly. It is the only rule we cannot bend.

Tell us the evening before

One message with what's ready and roughly how much. That's how the morning route gets planned. Same-day calls we'll take when we can.

Let us do the cutting

Not because you can't. Cut time and cut method decide how long it holds, and the two-hour promise depends on both. For the same reason we won't take produce cut yesterday.

Say it if something went wrong

If something got sprayed, if it sat in the sun for a day, if you're not sure — tell us. We would rather lose one delivery than lose a buyer's trust.

Money

What we can honestly say about what you'll earn

No rates are fixed yet, and we won't invent one to make this page look better. Here is everything we can say today.

  • Weighed in front of you, and the price agreed before we leave your terrace. Never a "we'll tell you later."
  • Two bands, and you'll know which one applies before it leaves: first quality goes to a household, the rest goes to shops and markets the same day.
  • You get paid whether or not we find a buyer. The risk of it not selling is ours, not yours.
  • We will not quote a monthly figure. Anyone promising ₹10,000 a month from a terrace is guessing. We'd rather find out alongside you.
  • No joining fee, no deposit, and no kit you are required to buy from us. Ever.

Starting from zero

No garden yet? That's fine.

Most of the people we want to work with don't have a producing terrace today. Here's roughly how a first season goes.

01

We look at your terrace

Hours of sun, water access, what the roof can take, and how much time you actually have. Not everyone's terrace suits this, and we'll say so.

Week 1
02

We set it up with you

Grow bags, media and a first planting chosen for your conditions — not a generic kit off a shelf.

Week 2
03

First harvest

Greens in four to six weeks, fruiting vegetables in eight to twelve. The first one is usually small. That's normal.

Week 6–12
04

We start buying

Once the terrace gives more than your kitchen uses, the surplus becomes ours to sell. Until then, it's all yours.

When there's surplus

Questions

What growers ask us

Do I need a big terrace?

No. We would rather have twenty small terraces on one street than one large one across the city. The two-hour window is a collection problem, not a growing problem — density matters far more than size.

What if my family wants to eat it?

Then eat it. We only ever take what is left over after your kitchen. That is not a concession, it is the design.

What if nobody buys it?

We still pay you. It goes to shops and markets the same day for whatever it fetches, and you will know that price band before it leaves your terrace.

Do I have to sell every week?

No. Some weeks a terrace gives nothing, and some months it gives nothing at all. There is no minimum and no penalty.

Are you buying right now?

No. Nothing is being bought yet. This page exists so we can find out whether enough growers and enough buyers exist before we start.

For growers

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Urban Arva

Grown in this city. Delivered the morning it was cut.