“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: ...
The hardest aspect of the project has been dealing with the stress of ongoing uncertainty dogging every milestone. While it has been an incredibly difficult 14 years, I’m very pleased to say that Michelle and I finally feel we are through the toughest days, and we are starting to feel ...
Our dear friend, Ross Mars, passed away on 9 November 2023. There’s only a small handful of people who I can say truly changed the course of my life, and Ross was one of them. Ross introduced me to Permaculture in 1993, 30 years ago. I’d never met Ross before ...
The morning cool of Djeran has arrived and clever gardeners are frantically busy in this season preparing soil, propagating, germinating, planting and staying up late making tomato passata and pickles from the last vestiges of vegies picked from spent summer gardens. A lovely problem to have, I’m sure you’ll agree. ...
When Michelle and I started the journey of exploring the potential for building an ecovillage in Witchcliffe we consulted extensively with the local community. We made it very clear from the outset that we had no intention of proceeding with the extensive planning process to rezone the land unless there was ...
By Alex Jolly and Georgie Holbeche, residents of Cluster 1B It was while camping at Mike and Michelle’s place in Margaret River in Jan 2017 after a concert that we first heard of the Witchcliffe Ecovillage. Mike and Michelle had an amazing property and over the weekend we had the ...
