News & Events

From the Editors’ Desk

Hello! Here we are again with another jam-packed edition of our Ecovillage newsletter, as we enter the first summer Wadandi season of Birak.  In Birak, the Karrack (Red-tailed) and Mannitj (White-tailed) Black cockatoos announce their welcome presence across the village with shrill cries as they look for food to feed ...

Water update – rainwater, dam water levels and usage

What a relief to finally receive good rainfall over the past couple of weeks, after the hottest and driest summer on record! Over the seven months from October 23 to April 24, we only received 40mm of rain at the Ecovillage–this is completely unheard of in our region, which usually ...

Ecovillage founders are getting ready to start building their Ecovillage home!

Michelle and I are very excited to confirm that we’ve finally started site preparations for our new Ecovillage home! We’ve only just felt like we’ve got the headspace for it after the huge amount of work over the past four years of building the Ecovillage. We’ve spent a lot of ...

Thermy Permies: Investigating the Thermal Performance of Ecovillage Homes

Photo: Markus Winkler We had a lot of fun doing the first survey of how well our homes are performing during a 38C day in February, towards the end of a week-long heat wave! We have assembled an awesome team of Ecovillage volunteers for this task, all but me with ...

What makes an Ecovillage sustainable home?

Following the great success of Sustainable House Day in the Ecovillage, with so many visitors getting the rare opportunity to experience the many different types of sustainable homes in the Ecovillage, we thought it would be a good idea to write an article in each our newsletters featuring the various ...

Newest (and cutest) resident moves in!

Photo: Brodie van der Schaaf I was a volunteer possum carer for 5 years when we first moved to Margaret River, and it was always distressing to me that so many Western ringtail possums, or gnuraren, would come in to care with injuries caused by cats and dogs in people’s ...

Edible Gardens Festival

On Sunday, the 12th of May 2024, 21 gardens in Ecovillage Cluster 1B collectively welcomed over 200 visitors from the Edible Garden Festival. Britta and Michael Sorensen, both true Ecovillage pioneers (read their story here), encouraged their cluster to join the festival – with great success!  “We’ve participated a couple ...

The Green Season – Gardening Tips for Autumn

At last, after a long, dry parched season, we’ve had some relieving rain. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, we can get a lot of leverage out of the water that falls from the sky in the wet season that’s ahead of us. Plants, soil fauna and ...

Feed it Forward – Tackling Food Waste in Australia

by Clara Evelyn Fischer Did you know that in Australia, over 7 million tonnes of food end up in landfills annually? That’s an equivalent of roughly 140kg per person!* To combat this problem, Feed it Forward saves huge amounts of surplus food each week from partnering supermarkets such as Coles and Woolworths. Volunteers ...