News & Events

Warming up the garden 1
Warming up the garden

Garden Update: October 2020 Over the winter months, the Ecovillage horticulture team has been consolidating its existing projects in readiness for the next phase. It’s good to have the nutrition, weed and pest and disease management programs in place and working well. Much of my focus in the last year ...

Preferred Supplier Deals 2
Preferred Supplier Deals

We have always wanted to use our community’s bulk buying potential to negotiate some great deals on products that we’re all going to need, like PVs, heat pumps, rainwater tanks, pumps, etc. We’ve also always been of the view that we only want to recommend the best and most sustainable products, ...

Stages 1-3 civil works resume 3
Stages 1-3 civil works resume

Construction Update – October 2020 Construction work on the Witchcliffe Ecovillage paused over the winter months and we are now looking forward to work getting underway again on 19 October. While site conditions over winter don’t suit civil works, the stonemasons have steadily continued in the Village Square and the ...

Energy at the Ecovillage 4
Energy at the Ecovillage

After many years investigating various battery options for the Ecovillage we have chosen the Tesla Powerpack. Our decision was based on its success, performance and warranty, and confidence gained from the sheer number of Powerpacks that have been deployed worldwide. The Powerpack battery provides 232kWh, with up to 130kW of ...

Subdivision and creation of lot titles 5
Subdivision and creation of lot titles

The subdivision of land has many steps and can take considerable time. For a project of this complexity, there are also many layers to coordinate and the bureaucratic protocols of a variety of government departments to navigate. With the receipt of formal subdivision clearance letters from the Augusta-Margaret River Shire ...

Building Update: October 2020 6
Building Update: October 2020

Long-awaited Ecovillage house designs After much ado, we have now publicly released our suite of pre-designed, tailormade Ecovillage houses. They comprise 16 separate designs that are correctly oriented and sized for each of our three block types (six designs for Groupie lots, five for Cottage and five for Family lots). ...

From The Editor's Desk: October 2020 7
From The Editor’s Desk: October 2020

Sales, Marketing and Communications Update From where we’re sitting, the view is pretty amazing at the moment, both literally and figuratively. Largely removed from the ongoing Covid turmoil that continues to engulf parts of the world, the general consensus from Margaret River locals seems to be that there’s absolutely nowhere ...

Ecovillager Profile: Paradise Found 8
Ecovillager Profile: Paradise Found

By Rachel Clough, future resident of Cluster 1C Around four years ago, we put our Perth Hills home on the market in the hopes of leaving our office jobs and living a simpler life. We’d hoped to build a small eco retreat in Tasmania with some friends but alas the ...

Ecovillage street names approved 9
Ecovillage street names approved

Ecovillage street names honour the Wadandi/Pibulmen cultural heritage of the Witchcliffe area We are excited to announce that the Ecovillage now has official street names for Stage 1, 2 and 3 roads approved by Landgate. We have chosen names that refer to the Wadandi/Pibulmen words for various local flora and ...