Final stage of the Witchcliffe Ecovillage selling now!

This is your last chance to be part of this unique, sustainable, innovative development. Reserve a lot in Stage 5 now. The WEV sales team is excited to launch 42 new Residential and Short Stay lots to the market in our highly anticipated release of Stage 5 of the Witchcliffe ...

From the Editor’s Desk – April 2023

The morning cool of Djeran has arrived and clever gardeners are frantically busy in this season preparing soil, propagating, germinating, planting and staying up late making tomato passata and pickles from the last vestiges of vegies picked from spent summer gardens. A lovely problem to have, I’m sure you’ll agree. ...

Sales update – April 2023

Clusters 5A and 5B on sale soon Interest in and awareness of the Ecovillage continues to grow and while lot sales have understandably slowed from their earlier peak, we have fewer than a dozen lots left in Stage 4. Groupie lots have proven to be popular, and we have been ...

Building nesting boxes from reused materials

By Didi Dyer, 8-year-old resident of Cluster 1C The latest home to be built in the Witchcliffe Ecovillage has a small footprint, but it’s a very important place for small animals who live in trees. It’s a nest box. What is a nest box? A box made of wood (preferably ...

Witchcliffe Ecovillage Leads Australia in EV Integration

You may have seen our recent Facebook post, celebrating the milestone of switching on one of our first five newly installed Tritium EV fast-charging stations while simultaneously launching the RACE for 2030’s Australian Strategic EV Integration Project (SEVI). SEVI is one of several priority projects within RACE for 2030, a ...

Ecovillager Profile: Dream run

By Jan & Laurence Hansen, residents of Cluster 1C We were both born in the UK, Laurence in London and I was raised in North Staffordshire, in the Midlands. Although Laurence was very much a city boy who loved sports, he joined the scouts and went on every outdoor activity ...

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 ...

The Green Iguana

One of the most important parts of the Witchcliffe Ecovillage development is its sewerage treatment plant, or water recovery facility project, as it is described by its licensed operator, Tony Johansen of TMC Witchcliffe. Without this, WEV simply would not be able to achieve housing density in the Ecovillage, which ...

A strong food growing culture

Garden Update – April 2023 It’s still early days, but already, a strong food growing culture is well and truly emerging at the Ecovillage. Gardens are popping up everywhere as new residents get their EUAs (Exclusive Use Areas) underway. It is a joy to behold the ever-changing vegie patches, in ...

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