Make
Melbourne
Edible
Put your building on the map.
Melbourne's buildings can do more than house us. They can help feed us.
We're mapping buildings across Melbourne that want to transform underused indoor spaces into living, edible infrastructure. Tell us where you want to grow.
2026 Urban Forest Fund applications have closed.
Expressions of interest are now open for 2027.
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.
What went in for 2026
From underused building space to edible urban infrastructure.
2026 Urban Forest Fund · Project concept
Concept rendering only, not a completed installation. Logos shown for illustration and do not imply City of Melbourne endorsement.
For the 2026 Urban Forest Fund, we developed a new model for bringing food production, biodiversity and nature into Melbourne's buildings.
At the centre is a Farmwall growing approximately 90 servings of fresh microgreens each week, surrounded by integrated native planting.
The idea is simple
Turn underused building space into living infrastructure that grows food, supports biodiversity and reconnects people with nature.
Where could this go in your building?Where could your building
grow food?
You don't need to know exactly what you want to build.
Show us the space and tell us what you would like it to do. Farmwall can help explore what is possible.
Let's put Melbourne's buildings on the map.
One building can grow food.
Hundreds of buildings can change how a city thinks about food.
We're building a map of Melbourne organisations interested in turning parts of their buildings into edible green infrastructure.
- InterestedThe building has expressed interest.
- In developmentFarmwall and the building are exploring a potential project.
- Project submitted / installedA project has progressed to a formal submission or installation.
Map points are illustrative. No contact details are shown publicly, and an expression of interest does not mean a project has received funding.
- 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.
Thought leadership
From the edible building
to the edible city.
At the 2026 WELL Summit in Sydney, Farmwall founder Geert Hendrix explored a bigger question:
What if the buildings where we live, work, learn and stay could become part of the food system?
Presented in the fast-paced PechaKucha format — 20 slides, 20 seconds each — the talk explored a vision for moving from isolated growing systems towards buildings, neighbourhoods and ultimately cities that help feed the people within them.
The idea behind forest.farmwall.com is a practical next step in that vision.
We're starting with buildings.
One lobby.
One workplace.
One hotel.
One school.
One apartment building at a time.
Article · LinkedIn
From the Emerald City to the Edible City
Geert's reflections from the WELL Summit stage — on why the next chapter of healthy buildings could be one where they help feed the people inside them.
Read on LinkedIn
Conceptual visual of the edible-city vision — not a built project.
Read: From the Emerald City to the Edible CityGeert Hendrix
Founder, Farmwall
WELL Summit Sydney 2026 — PechaKucha
The edible city
starts with a building.
We can imagine a city that feeds its people.
Now we need to start putting the buildings that want to be part of it on the map.
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
- Optional community engagement
Looking towards
2027.
City of Melbourne · Urban Forest Fund
- 2026 round
- Applications closed
- Now open
- Expressions of interest for 2027
The 2027 Urban Forest Fund has not been announced. Farmwall is collecting expressions of interest and developing potential projects in preparation for future funding opportunities.
The 2026 Urban Forest Fund application period has closed.
We're now identifying buildings and spaces that could become part of the next generation of edible green infrastructure projects.
Registering your building does not constitute a grant application or guarantee funding.
It gives us the opportunity to understand your site, explore potential concepts and keep you informed about the 2027 Urban Forest Fund and other relevant opportunities as they emerge.
You don't need to
start from a blank page.
- 01
Show us your space
Share your building address and a quick photo.
- 02
We take a look
Farmwall reviews the space and what you'd like it to do.
- 03
We explore a concept
Where it looks promising, we develop an idea together.
- 04
Funding pathways
We keep you informed about the 2027 Urban Forest Fund and other opportunities as they emerge.
- 05
We grow
With or without a grant, your building can start growing food.
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.
What if our buildings
helped feed our city?
Melbourne has thousands of foyers, kitchens, corridors, rooftops, courtyards and common areas.
Most of them produce no food.
Imagine if some of those spaces became productive.
A Farmwall can turn a small part of a building into a place where people grow, harvest and eat fresh food. One Farmwall might produce around 90 servings of microgreens each week.
Multiply that across workplaces, hotels, schools, apartment buildings and community spaces and something much bigger begins to happen.
We start building a distributed edible landscape throughout the city.
One building.
One farm.
One small piece of a more resilient city.
Don't want to wait for funding?
You don't need a grant
to make your building edible.
Farmwall works directly with workplaces, hotels, schools, universities, residential buildings and community organisations.
Explore a Farmwall for my buildingPut your building
on the map.
Have an underused area in your building?
Show us where you think food and nature could grow.
We'll explore what might be possible and keep suitable projects informed about the 2027 Urban Forest Fund and other relevant funding opportunities.