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You could also decorate them with vegetable shaped cookies if the modeling paste ends up being too large a project.
There are some examples here:
http://www.vosswinkelcookies.com/flavors.asp
And though they're not veggie seed packets, floral "seed packets" and garden tools are included in these edible sugar cake/cupcake decor kits:
They can use crushed oreos for the topsoil. As for the veggies, the easiest would be to pipe them out with frosting (it won't look as nice though).
Or they can print out images of the veggies on edible paper, paste them to white chocolate and then cut them into little squares that they can stick into the cupcake. The image squares can even be done weeks in advance. Hope that helps!!
As a semi-pro baker, I think that even making fruits/veggies out of modeling chocolate will be too much - it takes just as much time to dye and sculpt them regardless of the material. The easiest way to do it would be to just have them drawn on with royal icing. They won't be 3D shapes, but it's definitely faster and easier (read: cheaper) than modeling chocolate or marzipan.
Why not just buy the marizipan veggies?
http://www.marzipanconfections.com/marzipan/vegetables.html
http://www.marzipanworld.com/acatalog/Marzipan_World_Marzipan_Vegetables_2.html
Those are so cute!
But gushing aside, are you set on having single-serving sizes? Maybe you could go with a number of full-size bundts and have those decorated with some of the veggie cuteness.
Another idea, though it may not meet the formality of your event (too child's birthday?) is to use actual veggie seed packets for the rows, and maybe use a couple of gummi worms down the row (instead of the veggies, or maybe interspersed so that far fewer cakes get the veggie decorations, but it still feels like there's something going on).
Or another option might be to stray from the vegetable theme. If you're only using it to highlight the uniqueness of your grandpa's family recipe (I want to hear about this recipe!), then maybe you could just add some recipe-card decor with a pic of him all decked out in cake flour, or something...
Oh, thank you so much, everyone!!! For some reason I stopped getting notified of new responses. I'm looking into all your great suggestions and will report back if my addled brain remembers to. In the meantime, send me a message if you want the AWESOME AWESOME and oh-so-healthy
recipe (which my caterers are experimenting with this week).
I saw this pan this morning and thought of you! I couldn't find this thread on the board, though, and I'm glad it's back on the main page now. Maybe you can intersperse these tiny cakes among the chocolate-beet cupcakes? 
Image from Williams-Sonoma
Wow, so cute! I would do it as a cake, maybe a few layers, and then use buttercream frosting or fondant to decorate the cake with the veggies. Our cake looks like daisies are growing from the bottom of it; you could make yours look like a garden growing from the bottom.
Ohhhh I love the W-S petit fours, but someone would have to make them... horror of horrors! They are absolutely adorable, though - definitely bookmarked. 
Caliocteach, do you have a picture of "your" cake? That sounds amazing!!
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For our cake, I'm planning to use my grandpa's recipe for chocolate beet cake (the most ridiculously delicious cake I've ever eaten, hands-down). Our caterers are pretty open to ideas and said they'd be happy to try the recipe, but the picture I sent (attached here) was a little too complicated for a mass-produced cupcake. Does anyone have any ideas for how we can adapt this idea to something a little simpler? I'd be happy to just have little beets (instead of all different vegetables, though they're adorable), and I'd also rather use some kind of frosting instead of marzipan, which wouldn't really go with the cake flavor. My grandpa also usually makes the cake as a large bundt cake, so I thought mini bundt cakes would be cute - but not as easy to decorate with the veggies.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24596372@N06/2327260702/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24596372@N06/2326445049/