THE TEAM

Brendan Condon

Director, Melbourne Skyfarm,
The Sustainable Landscape Company,
Biofilta, Australian Ecosystems, 
​The Cape
'Melbourne Skyfarm will be a wonderful platform to showcase what is possible for sustainable cities embracing the future. Using the Australian-designed and manufactured Biofilta Foodcube urban farming system, Skyfarm is the perfect site to show how cities can build abundant, simple, water-efficient urban farms in any location, and become prolific closed-loop food-producers.'

Nigel Sharp

Director, Melbourne Skyfarm
​Odonata
'Melbourne Skyfarm represents a fundamental shift in what it 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 storytelling about the wonders of nature.'

Adam Tucker

Supporter
Dragonfly Enviro Capital
'Melbourne Skyfarm represents a true example of how we can create functional nature based places in the urban environment. In this instance it helps with urban cooling, enables biodiversity, creates food supply and is a place for communities to connect. We hope Skyfarm is a beacon of positivity of what can be done as humanity tackles climate and biodiversity concerns.'

Andre Brodmerkel

Urban Farmer
The Sustainable Landscape Company

Georgia Warren & Kate Pospisil

Landscape Architects
​The Sustainable Landscape Company

Our Impact

​Each FoodCube has the potential to produce 20kg of produce per m2 per year. To date, SkyFarm has produced over .$100,000 worth of produce to our Charity partner Ozharvest.

The produce grown at Melbourne SkyFarm helps to fight food waste, improves nutrition, and reduces food insecurity for the lesser privileged.

​We'd like to thank all of our volunteers, they should be proud of their efforts and impact to date, and we aim to continue to produce and inspire cities as productive, green, and community inspired spaces into the future.

​We believe that urban agriculture is important part of a more sustainable future, and the liveability of our cities.

Our Background

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. 
Foodcube 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. Foodcube 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.
Dragonfly Enviro Capital is a sustainable impact investment company and fund manager with a focus on investing in businesses that address real climate and biodiversity concerns. It is committed to mobilising capital towards 'best in practice' investment stat produce highlighting positive impact outcomes and strong financial returns.

Our Partners

Major Sponsor

Secondary Sponsors

​Thanks to the City of Melbourne for providing a grant through their Urban Forest Fund

Charity Partner
Rooftop, Siddeley Street Carpark
671 Siddeley Street, Docklands, Melbourne, Victoria

    Contact Us
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Melbourne Skyfarm 2023
Melbourne Skyfarm acknowledges the Wurundjeri people as the owners of the land upon which we work, and pay our respects to them, their culture and their Elders past and present.