Melbourne Skyfarm is a collaboration between three Melbourne based sustainability companies, to transform a 2000 square metre rooftop car park into an urban farm and environmental oasis in the heart of the city. Located in Melbourne's emerging Seafarer's precinct, Melbourne Skyfarm directly overlooks the Yarra River and Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre. When complete, visitors will be able to tour the working farm, visit the orchard, sample rooftop honey, dine at the sustainable café, have a drink on the deck, hire unique event spaces, attend classes at the environmental education centre or enjoy the children's playground. The venue is expected to open in late 2020.
Rooftop Farm
Melbourne Skyfarm will feature an innovative, water-efficient, pop-up farm designed and manufactured in Melbourne by urban farming company Biofilta.
Biofilta's urban farming system has been judged as internationally innovative, and is low maintenance, soil based, ergonomic and can be rapidly assembled within days. The farm will grow over 5 tonnes of fresh produce per annum, with a large proportion of produce being donated to Melbourne food charities as well as being used in the Melbourne Skyfarm cafe kitchen. The farm will also incorporate a rooftop orchard and working bee hives. |
Environmental Education
Melbourne Skyfarm will feature high-tech classrooms to educate primary, secondary and tertiary students, community groups, businesses and future leaders about our natural world, the challenges it is facing and the rapidly growing field of sustainable solutions to these challenges.
Melbourne Skyfarm will demonstrate elements of sustainable design on site, including passive solar design, renewable energy, urban greening, zero emissions buildings, carbon neutral transport, zero waste living, urban farming, rainwater harvesting, closed resource loops and urban biodiversity. The Melbourne Skyfarm design hub will provide a space for designers, innovators and students to participate in the design of sustainable, nature-friendly cities and communities. |
Cafe and Events
Melbourne Skyfarm will feature a 90 seat licensed café and elevated terrace as well as a unique range of public and hireable spaces for events, exhibitions, meetings, conferences and celebrations.
The hospitality venues of Melbourne Skyfarm will champion best practice in food production from around Australia including sustainable and regenerative farming, ethical food production, low-waste hospitality techniques, and native ingredient use. Melbourne Skyfarm will also support sustainable, local food and wine from the Greater Melbourne and Victorian regions. |
"Melbourne Skyfarm represents a fundamental shift in what is means to do business in this day and age. It is a bold and exciting step towards a future where nature in cities is the norm. A world where businesses seek to not only minimise their impact on the environment, but actually seek to generate good. It is a demonstration of how nature people and our economy can thrive together and provides a much needed platform in the inner city for interaction, education and story-telling about the wonders of nature."
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Nigel Sharp, Director of Skyfarm
Melbourne Skyfarm will be a wonderful platform to showcase what is possible for sustainable cities embracing the future. Skyfarm will transform a concrete carpark into a 2000 square meter inner city rooftop oasis and thriving urban farm, where Melburnians can enjoy a meal, explore a beautiful landscape, have an engaging educational experience and find out about emerging solutions to environmental challenges.
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Brendan Condon, Director of Skyfarm
“Melbourne Skyfarm is the perfect site to show how cities can build abundant urban farms in any location, and become prolific closed loop food producers. Biofilta is proud to demonstrate the latest in Australian designed and manufactured urban food growing systems that are simple to use, water efficient and cost effective.”
Marc Noyce, Director of Biofilta.
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Nigel Sharp, Director of Skyfarm
Melbourne Skyfarm will be a wonderful platform to showcase what is possible for sustainable cities embracing the future. Skyfarm will transform a concrete carpark into a 2000 square meter inner city rooftop oasis and thriving urban farm, where Melburnians can enjoy a meal, explore a beautiful landscape, have an engaging educational experience and find out about emerging solutions to environmental challenges.
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Brendan Condon, Director of Skyfarm
“Melbourne Skyfarm is the perfect site to show how cities can build abundant urban farms in any location, and become prolific closed loop food producers. Biofilta is proud to demonstrate the latest in Australian designed and manufactured urban food growing systems that are simple to use, water efficient and cost effective.”
Marc Noyce, Director of Biofilta.
Our Team
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Odonata is an organisation committed to building a world where nature, people and the economy thrive together. Since launching in 2017, Odonata has ignited over 30 nature regeneration projects, assisted in generating significant investment into nature and maintains Victoria’s largest feral-free safe haven that is home to more than six nationally-threatened species, Mt Rothwell.
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Biofilta is a leading innovator in self watering, urban farming systems and has deployed its Melbourne made products in urban farms around the country as well as Pacific Island communities, to help improve community health outcomes, nutrition and food security. Biofilta is also an experienced water sensitive urban design consultant, collaborating in the design and construction of innovative stormwater harvesting systems across Melbourne and Australia, helping to drought-proof cities and improve water quality.
The Sustainable Landscape Company (TSLC), alongside its parent company Australian Ecosystems, is a landscaping company which has grown and planted over 35 million indigenous plants on wetland, habitat restoration and landscape projects in Victoria since 1998. These environmental projects have helped to build urban biodiversity, liveable cities and improve water quality. TSLC is currently building the landscape at Victoria’s most sustainable housing project, The Cape at Cape Paterson in South Gippsland.
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