From the Editor’s Desk: June 2020

  This edition of The Village Collective newsletter has been a long time coming! Like many, our best intentions of dispatching a bi-monthly newsletter were thwarted by COVID-19, among other things. But we now have plenty of news that we are excited to share with you. Sales Update After much ...

Riding the wave

  What a crazy few months it’s been navigating the Coronavirus chaos! Like everyone, the Witchcliffe Ecovillage has been impacted by the pandemic fallout, but all things considered, we seem to have weathered the storm relatively well so far. However, we’ve had to change our sales and marketing schedule several ...

Release of Stage 1 Lot Pricing

So much more than a block of land… The Witchcliffe Ecovillage is far from a standard residential subdivision. If you’re considering buying a residential lot in the Ecovillage, we want to ensure you understand you’re buying a lot more than simply a piece of dirt on which to build a ...

Civil construction begins at Witchcliffe Ecovillage

The Ecovillage team is thrilled to announce that civil construction of Stage 1 will start on Monday (17 Feb) after we recently signed Perth-based Wormall Civil as head contractor for civil works of Stages 1-3. “Starting construction is a huge milestone that’s been more than a decade in the making,” ...

Civil construction: a mammoth coordination effort

The design of a new village requires a huge amount of design information. The Ecovillage design team includes engineers and designers across a range of disciplines including electrical, road, irrigation, stormwater, sewerage systems, communications and geotechnical, as well as wastewater treatment chemists, landscape architects and planners. This team of staff ...

Profile: Ecovillage is changing lives already

To say the Witchcliffe Ecovillage has been dramatically life-changing for me, my husband Jeff, and our two sons Henry (10) and Hugo (9), is in no way an exaggeration. How we came to be captivated by its vision, give up both of our businesses to work for its developer, Sustainable ...

Building healthy soil and establishing avocados

As always, it’s been very busy in the horticulture department this season at the Ecovillage. With the vineyard planted out, we turned our attention to the avocado orchard. First up, we sowed a protective summer cover crop of sunflowers, sorghum and cowpeas on the side of the mounds just in ...

Beautiful illustrations give life to the Ecovillage

If you follow the Ecovillage on Instagram or Facebook, you will have already seen two of the three hand-drawn conceptual illustrations we recently commissioned from talented architect, Niall Browne of @coveneybrowndesign. Artist’s impression of the future Village Square The first concept is a street-level perspective of the Village Square looking ...

Ecovillage launch format to change

Open Day to make way for a series of smaller events As the Witchcliffe Ecovillage gathers momentum, more and more people are registering their interest and enquiries are increasing. We are thrilled to have such an active group of prospective buyers but it has prompted a rethink of how best ...