21 Best Gifts for Foodie Gardeners

One of the best parts of being a foodie gardener is growing all the unique and flavorful produce you can’t find in a grocery store. From colorful tomatoes to delicious herbs, gifting a seed collection is a great way to expand culinary horizons, allowing the giftee to make truly one-of-a-kind dishes.

Jacques’ Flavor Guarantee

Focused solely on flavor, Jacques’ Flavor Guarantee Bundle is a gift designed with foodies in mind. Each variety has far superior tastes to the traditional veggies you may find in a grocery store, elevating any dish with minimal effort.

Whether you want a traditional parmigiana di melanzane made from ‘Long Purple’ eggplant and ‘Cherokee Purple’ tomatoes or a flavorful snack plate of ‘Little Finger’ carrots, ‘Tasty Green’ cucumber, and ‘Sun Gold’ cherry tomatoes, this bundle has you covered.

Edible Flowers Collection

For foodies who love to experiment with unique ingredients or artistic plating, the Edible Flowers Collection is the perfect gift.

Edible flowers are often overlooked in the kitchen or tossed into a dish last minute as a garnish. However, they can also be central ingredients when used effectively. This combination of edible flowers – including essentials like nasturtium, borage, and viola – is great for experimenting in the kitchen and taking foodie favorites to the next level.

Sprouts Sampler Seed Collection

Health-conscious foodies will appreciate this gift collection packed with nutrients. The Sprouts Sampler Seed Collection contains a range of delicious sprouts perfect for adding to salads or sandwiches. Stick to favorites like broccoli or mung bean, or change up the flavors with a sandwich mix – this collection allows you to sample them all.

The best part about this gift is that you don’t have to wait weeks or months to enjoy your produce. Your sprouts will be ready to harvest within a few days at any time of the year.

Herbal Tea Collection

If you’re looking for a gift for an avid tea lover who likes to play around in the kitchen, try the Herbal Tea Collection. It contains all the herbal teas you could ever want, from calming chamomile to flavorful lemon balm fresh from the garden.

Plus, growing them all allows the giftee to craft their own herbal tea recipes with combinations of their favorite ingredients. And when you’re not using them in teas, you can toss them into savory or sweet dishes as regular herbs.

Briana’s Cocktail Garden Picks

Sticking with beverages, you can liven up any holiday cocktail party by gifting this seed collection. Briana’s Cocktail Garden Picks features a selection of seeds guaranteed to elevate any cocktail, including edible flowers like nasturtiums and fresh herbs for a flavorful twist.

Use these seeds to start a sprawling cocktail garden fit for any occasion. The plants are also useful in the kitchen to make the most of your fresh produce.

Kevin’s Weird & Unique Picks

Avid foodies will know a great dish starts with the right ingredients. So, when you have the urge to make something weird and out-of-the-box, start with a collection of plants you may have never considered growing.

Kevin’s Weird & Unique Picks contains several seeds not often grown in home gardens (but well worth the effort). Rainbow quinoa, zebra tomatoes, variegated nasturtiums, and tiny mouse melons are just some of the interesting eats your giftee will get to enjoy.

Chile Pepper Collection

Spice lovers are easy to please when looking for garden foodie gifts. The Chile Pepper Collection really brings the heat, with peppers ranging from 10,000-1,000,000 Scoville heat units. Just one of the very hot peppers like ghost or scotch bonnet is enough to knock your socks off.

As chile growers know, one plant can give you far more chiles than you know what to do with. When gifting this collection, you may be lucky enough to get some produce back in return.

Gardening Books

Seed collections can be tricky to gift if you’re unsure what the recipient likes to grow. Instead, you can gift a gardening book that covers all the edible gardening essentials. These books are ideal for beginner foodie gardeners just starting their gardening journey or experienced gardeners looking for tips from the pros.

Kitchen Garden Revival

Think edible gardening has to be complicated or resource-heavy? Kitchen Garden Revival dispels that myth. Author Nicole Johnsey Burke, founder of Rooted Garden and Gardenary, explains the essence of the modern kitchen garden with practical advice on everything from design to maintenance.

Foodies that haven’t quite committed to a full kitchen garden will appreciate this gift, giving them a start-to-finish guide on creating a productive garden that benefits them in the kitchen, too.

Field Guide to Urban Gardening

Lack of backyard space shouldn’t stop anyone from growing an overflowing garden packed with delicious produce to harvest. But if you know anyone who still needs convincing, this book is the ideal gift.

In Field Guide to Urban Gardening, Kevin explains the essentials of starting an edible garden in an urban space, providing endless solutions for space-strapped gardeners worldwide. From growing in containers to hydroponics, foodie gardeners will find the gardening answers they’re looking for.

Epic Garden Journal

Growing a productive food garden year-round takes a lot of planning and tracking. Deciding what to plant and when is one thing, but tracking plant progress and knowing when you can start harvesting is valuable information, especially when you plan to use all that produce in the kitchen.

The Epic Garden Journal takes all the struggles out of vegetable garden planning. No more worries about forgetting a frost or starting seeds at the wrong time – this journal will help foodie gardeners do it all with time to spare.

Planters

Good planters are a go-to gift for any gardener, especially those short on space. Raised beds, vertical planters, and grow bags all expand the growing possibilities, creating more space for an abundant edible garden.

Birdies 15” Short Raised Garden Bed

Raised beds are incredibly popular in vegetable gardens, and for good reason. They allow better control over growing conditions (particularly soil), save space while reducing root competition, and keep your garden neat and tidy with little effort.

The Birdies 15” Short Raised Beds come in three sizes – small, medium, and large. You can also choose from three classic colors – mist green, slate grey, and light clay – to personalize your gift.

Birdies 29” Tall Raised Garden Bed

If your giftee typically grows deep-rooted plants like tomatoes, the Birdies 29” Tall Raised Garden Beds are a better option. These are made from the same aluzinc steel as the short beds, just with a little more height to play with.

This bed also comes in small, medium, and large, with the largest at 10 feet long. The extra height is ideal for those with limited mobility or back pain, limiting the need to bend for routine gardening tasks.

Vertical Cedar Garden

One of the best ways to maximize growing areas in urban gardens is to grow vertically. This Vertical Cedar Garden will delight any foodie gardener with little room to grow, creating ample space for planting without taking up extra floor room.

Ideal for growing herbs and leafy greens, you can get so much produce out of this one planter when you choose the right plants. It also comes with built-in irrigation, taking the stress out of watering.

Grow Bags

Fabric Grow Bags are a more cost-effective gift for small-space gardeners. They are large enough to house various edible plants, retaining moisture well and improving airflow for better root growth. They are also durable and long-lasting – the gift that keeps on giving.

Grow bags are great for balcony or patio gardens, especially those near the kitchen. The closer your plants are to your sink, the easier it will be to harvest and use your fresh produce.

Garden Tools

High-quality gardening tools make every gardener’s life simpler, from planting to harvesting. If you know any beginner foodie gardeners who need a tool upgrade this season, these gifts have you covered.

Felco 321 Harvesting Snips

The perfect tool for harvesting, the Felco 321 Harvesting Snips are a must-have for any foodie gardener. They are small enough to harvest regularly and get around corners without damaging the plants but large enough to handle almost all harvesting and basic pruning tasks.

The snips have carbon steel blades with chromium coating to prevent corrosion, ensuring this long-lasting gift will be used regularly.

Felco 701 Garden Gloves

Garden gloves go through a lot, from catching on thorny stems to protecting our hands from mounds of dirt. That’s why a pair of high-quality gardening gloves is always a great gift for gardeners of all kinds, including foodie gardeners.

The Felco 701 Garden Gloves are made from high-performance polyethylene fibers, with a rubber coating on the palms for better grip and strength. Plus, the eye-catching red color makes them an ideal holiday season gift or stocking stuffer.

The Tool Shed Bundle

For new foodie gardeners with absolutely no tools (or just very old tools in desperate need of replacement), try the Tool Shed Bundle. This set contains high-quality essentials for every edible garden: pruning shears, gardening gloves, and a weeder and cultivator.

The Tool Shed Bundle is a great starter kit to cover all stages of gardening. And, as they are made from durable materials, you can be sure your gift will be useful for many seasons to come.

Home

Some gifts are always useful and appreciated, usually products for the home. Whether they improve your living space or make your everyday life easier, these gifts should be your go-to when you’re not quite sure what to gift.

Epic Candles

Candles may seem like an underwhelming gift to some. However, for foodie gardeners, the unique Epic Candles are truly one of a kind. Forget typical scents like sandalwood or vanilla – these candles feature all the scents gardeners live for.

Options like First Rain and Lavender Fields are heavenly, but when it comes to foodie gardeners, Tomato Leaf, Squeeze of the Day, and Fresh Mint are the ones to look out for. Combine them with a matching seed collection or use them as a standalone gift, perfect for popping in the kitchen.

Epic Farmers Market Tote Bag

Instead of collecting handfuls of single-use plastics at the market or grocery store, opt for one bag that can handle it all: The Epic Farmers Market Tote Bag. Made from environmentally friendly materials, this sustainable tote bag can handle all your fresh produce and more.

The sturdy reinforced handles make carrying a breeze, even when the bag is packed with groceries. And as a bonus, it also makes a great carrier for the other gifts on this list, saving you time wrapping.

Bokashi Kitchen Compost Bin

Frequently cooking at home (as many foodie gardeners do) comes with a lot of kitchen waste and scraps that would normally go to waste. Rather than throwing them in the trash, they can be used for composting. For easy access and space-saving composting, a Bokashi Kitchen Compost Bin checks all the boxes.

This composting method is one of the quickest, breaking down scraps in as little as two weeks for use in the garden. Giftees can also compost year-round and recycle almost any kitchen scraps using this odor-free bin.

Gift Card

Finally, if you’re unsure what to get, a gift card is always the answer. There is no worry about getting the wrong thing or awkward thank-yous with a gift card that allows the receiver to choose exactly what they want. It’s still a surprise, but one that the giftee will continue to enjoy.