Author Archives: Nicola Anastas

Community gardens and southern entry

Landscape & Civil Update – April 2023 The WEV landscape team handed over the Cluster 2A and 2B community gardens to their communities at the inaugural AGM of their Strata Councils in March. With all the landscape and infrastructure work now completed in these two clusters and the tally of ...

Orchards, trees and stonework

The landscape team has been working on Stages 4 and 5 in the office and the sales plans for Stage 4 are now live on our website. We learned a lot from the Stage 1 to 3 works and are very excited to see how the community gardens and landscaping ...

Putting the finishing touches on Wolghine Square

It has been a VERY WET WINTER and our landscape consultant team, LD Total, has been out in the elements finalising Wolghine Square in readiness for her spring fling. It looks spectacular! In addition to LD Total, we want to thank Nutrien Water and Uralba Stone for all their hard ...

Landscape Update – April 2021

There’s just so much happening in the landscape office as we head into the cooler weather and gear up for the start of planting. Completed salt-finished concrete footpaths and magnificent stone walls now wind their way through the Village square defining and embracing the space. Boulders and rocks have been ...

Landscaping comes to the fore

We’re now at an exciting point in the landscape process and have awarded a significant contract to reputable local firm, LD Total South West. LDs will start work in two weeks, planting throughout the Ecovillage public open spaces, community gardens and street trees. We have ordered approximately 100 fruit trees ...

Landscape takes shape

The landscape team is close to awarding the landscape contract, which includes street tree planting, soft landscaping, mulch and turf. Street trees have been ordered from Ellenby Tree Farm and Small Tree Farm and will be planted in winter 2021. They include peppermints, nut trees such as macadamia and chestnut, ...

Stone walls and tree selection

Landscape Update: October 2020 Over the winter, we have been finalising the concept plans for community garden clusters 2A and 2B, which were released on the Ecovillage website in late September.   I’ve been working with Permaculture designer Byron Joel from Oak Tree Designs who has been assisting me with ...

Places and spaces take shape

  Landscape Update – June 2020 We have had a very busy six months finalising the landscape drawings for construction of Stage 1, which includes community garden residential clusters 1A, 1B and 1C, streetscaping and entry statements along the main road (Road 1) into the Ecovillage, the Piazza and adjoining ...

Community gardens: The heart of daily life

I recently joined the Sustainable Settlements team and have been involved in developing the Stage 1 community gardens from original concept plans to a much higher level of detail. There were a lot of design parameters that needed to be met for each community garden, such as: providing an exclusive use ...