Make
Melbourne
Edible + Green
Get a living Farmwall into your Melbourne building for 12 months.
The City of Melbourne Urban Forest Fund is offering matched funding of up to $10,000 for eligible community greening projects. Farmwall has made the pathway simple.
An edible Melbourne, imagined
What if Melbourne
started growing food
everywhere?
- Office lobbies.
- Apartment buildings.
- Hotels.
- Universities.
- Retail centres.
- Cultural venues.
- Community spaces.
All becoming part of a distributed edible urban forest.
One building
is a garden.
Hundreds of buildings
become a movement.
Put your building on the map.
Farmwall is reaching out to hundreds of buildings across Melbourne with one invitation: make space for food to grow.
Points show buildings that could host a Farmwall, not confirmed installations.
- Workplaces
- Apartments
- Hotels
- Universities
- Retail
- Culture
- Community
A city can be green
and productive.
Green the city
Bring living green cover into the spaces where people already spend their time.
Grow food
Turn greening into something productive, changing and edible.
Connect people
Create daily interaction with plants, fresh food and nature.
A Farmwall isn't something people simply look at.
It grows. It changes. It gets harvested. It starts conversations.
The conversation is growing
Hear the vision
at the WELL 2026
Sydney Summit.
On 17 September, Farmwall founder Geert Hendrix will take the stage at the WELL 2026 Sydney Summit to talk about a bigger idea:
What if the buildings designed to support our wellbeing could also help feed us?
The talk explores the role of food, growing and nature inside the places where we work, live and gather — and the opportunity to turn our buildings into part of a more edible, resilient city. Make Melbourne Edible + Green is that idea put into action.
Geert Hendrix
Founder, Farmwall
- Event
- WELL 2026 Sydney Summit
- Date
- 17 September 2026
- Location
- Sydney
Come hear the thinking behind the movement.
From a summit conversation
to a city-wide movement.
A living edible garden
for your building.
Farmwall is a compact growing system that brings edible plants and fresh produce into everyday urban spaces.
A 12-month project can include
- Farmwall installation
- Living edible planting
- Recurring growing cycles
- Site-specific plant schedule
- Simple site plan
- Scheduled Farmwall maintenance
- Ongoing crop care
- Supporting grant information
- Optional community engagement
There's a window
to make this happen.
City of Melbourne
Urban Forest Fund 2026
Community greening
Up to
$10,000
Matched funding
- Applications close
- 30 September 2026
5:00 pm - Project greening completed by
- 31 July 2027
Urban Forest Fund applications close in
Your organisation submits the application.
Farmwall helps make the Farmwall part easy.
Eligible greening projects must
- be within the City of Melbourne municipal area
- be primarily focused on greening
- be completed by 31 July 2027
- demonstrate environmental and/or community benefits
- have a long-term maintenance plan
- be publicly accessible or visible to many people
- be located on private land or approved public land
On private property, written consent from the property owner is required if the applicant does not own the building. Eligible organisations may apply; all funding decisions are subject to City of Melbourne assessment.
Could your building
be a good fit?
01Is the proposed site within the City of Melbourne?
02Will the Farmwall be in a visible or shared location?
03Can you obtain property owner approval?
04Can you provide a photo of the proposed location?
05Is a standard power outlet available nearby?
06Could the project be installed after 1 November 2026?
You don't need to
start from a blank page.
- 01
Your building
Tell us your building address.
- 02
Your space
Send us a photo of where the Farmwall could go.
- 03
We prepare
Farmwall assesses the site and prepares the Farmwall-specific project information.
- 04
You apply
Your organisation submits its Urban Forest Fund application.
- 05
We grow
If funded and approved, we install the Farmwall and begin the 12-month program.
We can help provide
- Project description
- Farmwall project plan
- Maintenance plan
- Environmental and community benefits
- Public visibility narrative
- Farmwall site plan
- Plant schedule
- Project quote
- Product supporting information
Not a one-off activation.
A year of growing food, and spreading it across Melbourne.
Farmwall does the growing for you.
Every week, your Farmwall produces around 90 serves of fresh, superfood microgreens for the people in your building to harvest and enjoy.
But the growing doesn't stop there.
Your Farmwall also acts as a seedling vending machine — giving people edible seedlings to take home and plant on balconies, in backyards, courtyards and community gardens.
One Farmwall feeds your building while helping create hundreds of new places for food to grow across Melbourne.
One Farmwall → building → people → seedlings → homes → Melbourne
90 serves
of fresh superfood microgreens available every week.
Seedlings to go
Take an edible seedling home and grow it somewhere new.
1 Farmwall → a city of growers
Your building becomes a starting point for food growing beyond its walls.
- 01GrowFarmwall grows fresh microgreens for your building.
- 02HarvestAround 90 serves are available every week.
- 03EatFresh superfood greens become part of everyday meals.
- 04Take a seedlingPeople choose an edible seedling from the Farmwall.
- 05PlantThe seedling finds a new home on a balcony, backyard, courtyard or community garden.
- 06Grow somewhere newFood starts growing beyond the building.
- 07Spread across MelbourneOne Farmwall helps create many more small edible gardens across the city.
Who can join?
This is already growing.
The urban forest
doesn't have to stop
at the front door.
Imagine Melbourne where food grows inside the buildings that shape everyday life.
Where a hotel guest can pick something fresh.
Where an office worker sees lunch growing beside them.
Where a student learns from a living food system.
Where apartment residents share something grown downstairs.
Where greening becomes part of the culture of the city.
Let's make
Melbourne
Edible + Green.
Put your building
on the map.
It starts with an address and a photo.