News & Events

Update on Kyloring Housing Co-operative

Kyloring Housing Co-operative will be developing the aged and independent living site, centrally located within Witchcliffe Ecovillage. This over 55s community is affordable, not-for-profit and provides the opportunity for future residents to be involved in the development process, including the design. The project is promoted by Co-operation Housing, the umbrella group ...

Hungry for change

Starting out in the field of organic gardening today must be both exciting and somewhat overwhelming. There’s a world of information at our fingertips, and no shortage of options, opinions and offers to follow down the garden path. When I first studied horticulture, we mainly focused on the physical and ...

FREE Ecovillage garden workshops for residents

With spring on the way, we are excited to announce the dates of our first FREE gardening workshops, available exclusively to Ecovillage residents. In these introductory workshops we will be delving into the establishment and management of organic food gardens for the home as residents get geared up to start ...

35 homes under construction: Sep 2021

Home construction activity Our first Ecovillage home was completed last month and the owners are busy settling in and establishing their garden. The Ecovillage is busy with another 35 homes in various stages of construction and the built landscape is really starting to take shape. We are also busy processing ...

Private Facebook Group for Ecovillage residents

With 93 lots either settled, under contract or reserved, we now well and truly have an Ecovillage community. Our first community event was an unmitigated success and so the time was right to connect residents online and launch the Ecovillage Community Facebook Group. This is a private, invitation-only group for ...

Building Update – April 2021

The first concrete slab poured for the home of Rachel and Andy Clough in Cluster 1C in March was an auspicious moment for everyone at the Ecovillage as it marked the start of what will be an incredibly busy building phase. Almost all of the new Ecovillage lot owners plan ...

From the Editor’s Desk: Sales & Marketing Report – April 2021

Are Ecovillage lot sales a steady trickle or are they becoming a flood? Sometimes it’s hard to tell in this dynamic, heated real estate market. One thing we know for sure is that word of mouth has kept our Sunday sales presentations and tours filled with prospective buyers from Perth, ...

Large-scale, no-turn composting for multitudes of microbes

By Pam Gunnell, future Ecovillage resident Those of us at the Friday morning demonstration garden working bee last week were treated to a demonstration by Mark Tupman of how to make a Johnson-Su bioreactor composter. The name comes from the inventors of this method of making compost, Dr David Johnson, ...

Civil Construction Update – April 2021

Civil construction of Stages 1-3 has mostly been completed including roads, carparks, drainage, paths, services, stone walls and the dam crossing. Works to finalise the microgrid in Stage 3 should be completed at the end of April when switchboards have been delivered. The dam crossing across the central dam was ...