News & Events

Our first residents get comfortable

It’s given Michelle and I so much enjoyment to see the Ecovillage coming to life over the past year. It’s a great feeling walking and riding around the streets and footpaths seeing the stormwater swales and basins working, dams overflowing, and so many homes under construction. It is also lovely ...

Ecovillage energy systems update

As you’re all aware, an abundance of cheap fossil fuel energy is the main reason for the explosion in population, consumption, destruction of our environment and global warming. As we’ve wanted to completely separate ourselves from energy produced from fossil fuels, our challenge has been to provide 100% self sufficiency ...

To Stage 3 and beyond…

Marketing & Sales Update: September 2021 With the way lot sales are tracking and the number of houses under construction, we’ll have a thriving, bustling community in no time. As I am about to publish this on 2 September, we have nine residential lots still available for sale across Stages ...

Planning and design begins on Stages 4-5

Even though the project site is a flurry of construction activity, there is still a lot to design and planning work to do for future stages. Here’s an update on recent milestones and future planning activities: Community Centre We have now achieved Planning Approval from the Shire for the proposed ...

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 ...

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 ...