Author Archives: Clara Fischer

Kyloring Housing Cooperative update

Many of you might know about the Kyloring Housing Cooperative already. However, we gained quite a few new newsletter readers lately, so it’s a good time to provide an update on this unique project. The Kyloring Housing Cooperative is a stand alone cooperative housing project within the Witchcliffe Ecovillage, developed by Co-operation ...

From the Editor’s Desk

Sustainable House Day was a huge success – not only for us as the Ecovillage, but especially for our over 100 visitors attending the day. We opened up 8 houses with different building materials, one of them the first ever short stay accommodation in the village located overlooking the central ...

Come and join us in the Ecovillage!

After the success of Sustainable House Day, Edible Garden Festival, some great press coverage, and quite a few busy sales tours, sales activity in the Ecovillage has been buzzing. The SHD and Edible Gardens Festival events inspired several Ecovillage visitors to envision their life in the village and take the ...

Feed it Forward – Tackling Food Waste in Australia

by Clara Evelyn Fischer Did you know that in Australia, over 7 million tonnes of food end up in landfills annually? That’s an equivalent of roughly 140kg per person!* To combat this problem, Feed it Forward saves huge amounts of surplus food each week from partnering supermarkets such as Coles and Woolworths. Volunteers ...

Edible Gardens Festival

On Sunday, the 12th of May 2024, 21 gardens in Ecovillage Cluster 1B collectively welcomed over 200 visitors from the Edible Garden Festival. Britta and Michael Sorensen, both true Ecovillage pioneers (read their story here), encouraged their cluster to join the festival – with great success!  “We’ve participated a couple ...

What makes an Ecovillage sustainable home?

Following the great success of Sustainable House Day in the Ecovillage, with so many visitors getting the rare opportunity to experience the many different types of sustainable homes in the Ecovillage, we thought it would be a good idea to write an article in each our newsletters featuring the various ...

Witchcliffe Ecovillage wins top gong at the UDIA National Awards in Melbourne

By Clara Evelyn Fischer Witchcliffe Ecovillage is thrilled to announce its recent triumph at the prestigious UDIA National Awards, where it secured not one, but two esteemed accolades. The Ecovillage, nestled in the picturesque landscape of the Margaret River region in Western Australia, was honoured with the prestigious UDIA National ...