News & Events

Ecovillage Profile : Karen Majer & Boyd Wykes

The first time I heard about the Witchcliffe Ecovillage was in November 2012 when Mike Hulme presented the idea for this innovative settlement to a Transition gathering at the (then) Tingrith meeting house. Over the years Boyd and I followed the Ecovillage from a twinkle in Mike and Michelle’s eyes ...

A visit from Narara Ecovillage founder

It’s been a year of unexpected and serendipitous connections for Mike and I with other Ecovillage developers in Australia. It’s a bit of a niche what we do in this space as creators of truly sustainable, community focused human settlements, and despite our different locations, we share many unique challenges ...

Buzzing with excitement: The Witchy Bee Collective

Early on, a number of us expressed an interest in keeping bees or wanted a way to be a part of bee keeping, without the overwhelm of doing it all ourselves! So together we have started a Witchy Bee Collective. There are about 12 interested residents so far who have ...

Ecovillage Waste Reduction Initiative launching in 2025

As the year was coming to an end, a group of keen Ecovillage residents with an interest in all things waste and recycling held a preliminary meeting to explore creating a hub at the  Ecovillage Community Centre for waste-reduction education and activities in 2025.  Waste accounts for a huge part ...

Ecovillage sales updates – Dec 2024

Last lots selling in stage 4 and 5!  As we wind up a busy year of sales tours and presentations, we are delighted to have welcomed 47 new owners to the Ecovillage in 2024! We now have just 10 Family lots for sale in Stage 4 and 5, and only ...

Cluster 3D Ag Lots strata handover

On the 16th of November, the owners of the Cluster 3D Agricultural lots came together for the first time for their strata AGM and handover from the Ecovillage team. There was excellent attendance, a delicious quiche, and much discussion as they took their first steps as an independent survey strata ...

115 Ecovillage households and counting

Looking west across the stingray dam to Redgate Beach ...

Founders build to start in January

Almost 5 years after starting construction of the Ecovillage, in February 2020 (I can’t believe it’s been that long!) we are finally about to start construction of our home.  Our sand pad has gone down and we start construction in late January.  There’s been almost as many iterations of our ...

Water for Life

Some of you will remember my last newsletter article on Ecovillage Water in May ’24, after the driest seven months on record where we only received 40mm of rain at the Ecovillage. I stated in this article that historically, very dry summers are often followed by wetter than average winters, ...