Category Archives: Witchcliffe Ecovillage

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Autumn Sales in the Ecovillage

By Michelle Sheridan In the wake of our successful round of State and National awards and as we head towards Sustainable House Day, now is a great time to come down, make the most of the beautiful Autumn sunshine, and see everything we have to offer in the Witchcliffe Ecovillage. ...

Deeper water

By Ecovillage Cluster 1B resident, Alex Jolly With increasing housing occupation, spring rains finishing early, and hot spells well underway, it’s a great opportunity to provide fellow Ecovillagers with a high-level overview of how our water system balancing is working against budgets. Precipitation We have a weather station located in ...

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 ...