From the Editor’s desk

“Excellence in Sustainability & Affordable Housing was awarded to Witchcliffe Ecovillage – a first in carbon negative community living with a holistic approach to reducing ongoing living costs in our South West. If we had a “Hard Won Victory” category, Sustainable Settlements & Perron Developments would have won that too ...

Village Homes Realty expands choice

Village Homes Realty is a real estate agency working in and from the Witchcliffe Ecovillage Sales Office representing Ecovillage owners who are selling their sustainable homes and vacant lots. If you’re driving around the Ecovillage, keep an eye out for Village Homes Realty FOR SALE signs dotted around the established ...

What’s going on at Kyloring Housing Co-op?

By Eugenie Stockmann – Development Manager, Co-operation Housing Centrally located within the Witchcliffe Ecovillage, Kyloring Housing Co-operative will be a pocket neighbourhood of shared facilities and 25 private homes, designed to promote a healthy lifestyle, accessibility, and social connections, for successful ageing in place. UPDATE: Members and explorers gathered in ...

160+ street trees planted in Stages 4-5

Landscape Update – Nov 2023 LD Total successfully tendered to continue on the Stage 4 and 5 landscape and irrigation works, and has already completed street tree planting including 85 WA Peppermint Trees, 17 Pecan, 17 Crepe Myrtle and 43 Macadamia trees. Irrigation pump stations in each cluster are currently ...

Reflections on “3000 Generations” event

Early in November, Michelle and I were privileged to see our dear friends Dr Wayne (Wonitji) Webb and Stuart Hicks present their wonderful slide show on the Wadandi people’s inhabitation of our magnificent region, ‘3000 Generations & the Next One’, at The Margaret River HEART – Nana Bardip Mia (Our ...

Lawn mowing with Babydolls

By Mark Tupman, Productive Ecology Ecovillage residents will be well familiar with our resident flock of Babydoll sheep by now. We (Sustainable Settlements) started the WEV flock around four years ago with some lambs purchased from Tanjar Babydoll stud, and later acquired a few more from the only other available ...

Community management of the avocado orchard

We enjoyed another milestone in October when we held a little community event to hand over several rows of avocado trees to clusters 1A, 1B and 1C from the orchard in the wastewater irrigation zone. It was a fun and informative couple of hours where all who attended received a ...

All systems go! Energy update

We were thrilled to finally receive approval to turn on all of the solar systems in Stage 1 last month. During the summer of 20-21, Western Power experienced a couple of large grid burnout events due to the amount of solar installed in some of Perth’s suburbs. Western Power’s response ...

EV use in the Ecovillage

EV use in the Ecovillage It’s great to see several Ecovillage residents buying EVs, including Tesla Model 3, Hyundai Kona and a Peugeot e-2008. As an early EV adopter, I have often been asked for my recommendation on the best EV to purchase at present. My first two questions are: ...