A Collabortive 12-month Project between Permaculture Australia and Savour Soil Permaculture.
WHAT IS IT?
A year-long challenge to demonstrate what you can grow in your 90m2 space, documenting and sharing all along the way what you do, how you do it, and what you harvest.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
Everyone who grows food! If you don’t have 90m2 of garden in your own space, you can combine forces with neighbours, friends, your local community garden, and seek to find answers together. Get creative!
WHEN IS IT RUNNING?
The challenge begins on International Permaculture Day – Sunday 3rd May 2026, and ends on International Permaculture Day – Sunday 2nd May 2027. Participants will submit monthly reports and check ins to share how the experience is going throughout the year, with results published regularly.
WHAT IS IT FOR?
Gathering information about challenges, solutions, ideas and results. Being able to see how different climates, soil types, and other considerations affect the growing experience right across the country.
Across the country, people are growing food in wildly different ways. Different climates. Different soils. Different constraints. Different tools. And yet, we rarely get the chance to look at our systems side by side, with real numbers, real observations, and real honesty. This friendly 90 m2 challenge is an invitation to change that.
Rather than a competition focused on winning, this is a shared experiment in abundance, resilience, and good design. Each participant commits to observing and documenting up to 90 square metres of productive growing space over a 12-month period — including vertical spaces like trellises and fences, and sharing what they learn along the way.
The aim is simple but powerful:
To grow as much good-quality food as possible, while also tracking diversity, pest and disease pressure, labour, and seasonal challenges. Weight alone doesn’t tell the whole story, so this challenge values polycultures, system health, and adaptability, not monocropped shortcuts.
Permaculture practitioners have access to an enormous toolkit, no-dig beds, food forests, biological inputs, ferments, wicking systems, living mulches, intensive annuals, perennial systems, and more. This challenge creates a space where all of those approaches are welcome, documented, and visible, so we can collectively see what works, where, and why.
By sharing methods and outcomes openly, we move beyond opinion and anecdote. We start building a body of lived evidence that helps all of us design better systems, systems that are productive, resilient, and appropriate to their place.
This is not about proving who is “best.”
It’s about learning together, improving together, and celebrating the many ways abundance shows up in different landscapes.
Welcome to the experiment.
FOLLOW THIS LINK to see the proposal document.
FOLLOW THIS LINK to register your expression of interest.
Throughout the year, participants will document their efforts, processes, and harvests. The results will be openly shared for all to see what works, and where, and how. A nation-wide collaboration of food growers everywhere to demonstrate how permaculture can impact your food growing efforts.
This project is a collaboration between Permaculture Australia and Savour Soil Permaculture.
Get in touch to register your expression of interest! You will be contacted with more information before the challenge begins on Sunday 3rd May 2026.
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