Aspects of the present invention include a modular growing panel system for attaching vegetation to a surface of a structure. In one aspects, the modular growing panel system includes a growing substrate with a plurality of layers formed into a tile that is rigid and self-supportive of vegetation being grown in the growing substrate and a binder attaching one or more of the tiles to each other and forming the modular growing panel system. In another aspect, the modular growing panel system includes a growing substrate with a plurality of layers formed into a tile that is rigid and self-supportive of vegetation being grown in the growing substrate and a framework for holding and attaching one or more tiles to the structure created from a upper channel and having a slot that corresponds to the depth of the tile and a lower channel and having a slot corresponding to the depth of the tile. Yet another implementation of the modular growing panel system includes a growing substrate with a plurality of layers formed into a tile that is rigid and self-supportive of vegetation being grown in the growing substrate, a framework for holding and attaching one or more tiles to the structure created from a upper channel with an upper flange and having a slot that corresponds to the depth of the tile and a lower channel with a lower flange and having a slot corresponding to the depth of the tile； and upper molding to be affixed to the surface of the structure having a groove disposed to receive the upper flange of the upper channel of the framework and a lower molding to be affixed to the surface of the structure having groove disposed to receive the lower flange of the lower channel of the framework.
