News & Events

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 ...

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 ...

Kyloring Housing Cooperative update

Many of you might know about the Kyloring Housing Cooperative already. However, we gained quite a few new newsletter readers lately, so it’s a good time to provide an update on this unique project. The Kyloring Housing Cooperative is a stand alone cooperative housing project within the Witchcliffe Ecovillage, developed by Co-operation ...

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 ...

From the Editor’s Desk

Sustainable House Day was a huge success – not only for us as the Ecovillage, but especially for our over 100 visitors attending the day. We opened up 8 houses with different building materials, one of them the first ever short stay accommodation in the village located overlooking the central ...

Picture Perfect! SOLD

22 YORNITJ GROVE, WITCHCLIFFE – CLUSTER 1B, WITCHCLIFFE ECOVILLAGE SOLD SOLD It is a delight for us to offer for sale such a charming, beautifully finished home in the unique, sustainable Witchcliffe Ecovillage community. Designed by Seiber Design and built by the owner (a New Zealand qualified carpenter with 20 ...

Sustainable Sanctuary

Under Offer Rare opportunity to purchase a beautiful strawbale home in the Witchcliffe Ecovillage 48 KULBARDI WAY, WITCHCLIFFE - CLUSTER 1C, WITCHCLIFFE ECOVILLAGE ...

Witchcliffe Ecovillage wins top gong at the UDIA National Awards in Melbourne

By Clara Evelyn Fischer Witchcliffe Ecovillage is thrilled to announce its recent triumph at the prestigious UDIA National Awards, where it secured not one, but two esteemed accolades. The Ecovillage, nestled in the picturesque landscape of the Margaret River region in Western Australia, was honoured with the prestigious UDIA National ...