News & Events

Private Facebook Group for Ecovillage residents 1
Private Facebook Group for Ecovillage residents

With 93 lots either settled, under contract or reserved, we now well and truly have an Ecovillage community. Our first community event was an unmitigated success and so the time was right to connect residents online and launch the Ecovillage Community Facebook Group. This is a private, invitation-only group for ...

23
Apr
Building Update - April 2021 2
Building Update – April 2021

The first concrete slab poured for the home of Rachel and Andy Clough in Cluster 1C in March was an auspicious moment for everyone at the Ecovillage as it marked the start of what will be an incredibly busy building phase. Almost all of the new Ecovillage lot owners plan ...

22
Apr
From the Editor's Desk: Sales & Marketing Report – April 2021 3
From the Editor’s Desk: Sales & Marketing Report – April 2021

Are Ecovillage lot sales a steady trickle or are they becoming a flood? Sometimes it’s hard to tell in this dynamic, heated real estate market. One thing we know for sure is that word of mouth has kept our Sunday sales presentations and tours filled with prospective buyers from Perth, ...

22
Apr
Large-scale, no-turn composting for multitudes of microbes 4
Large-scale, no-turn composting for multitudes of microbes

By Pam Gunnell, future Ecovillage resident Those of us at the Friday morning demonstration garden working bee last week were treated to a demonstration by Mark Tupman of how to make a Johnson-Su bioreactor composter. The name comes from the inventors of this method of making compost, Dr David Johnson, ...

21
Apr
Civil Construction Update - April 2021 5
Civil Construction Update – April 2021

Civil construction of Stages 1-3 has mostly been completed including roads, carparks, drainage, paths, services, stone walls and the dam crossing. Works to finalise the microgrid in Stage 3 should be completed at the end of April when switchboards have been delivered. The dam crossing across the central dam was ...

21
Apr
Landscape Update - April 2021 8
Landscape Update – April 2021

There’s just so much happening in the landscape office as we head into the cooler weather and gear up for the start of planting. Completed salt-finished concrete footpaths and magnificent stone walls now wind their way through the Village square defining and embracing the space. Boulders and rocks have been ...

20
Apr
Community Gardens Update - April 2021 10
Community Gardens Update – April 2021

Garden soil preparation begins in Stages 1-2 I’m happy to say that initial preparation on the exclusive use areas (EUAs) and community gardens is underway. This is where the soil testing and methodologies that we have been successfully undertaking in the Ecovillage demonstration garden come together to (eventually) bear fruit ...

20
Apr
True Ecovillage pioneers: Michael and Britta Sorensen 11
True Ecovillage pioneers: Michael and Britta Sorensen

Hello, we are Michael and Britta Sorensen and Flot the dog. We will be moving onto a cottage lot in cluster 1B, but we are seasoned locals already having lived in Margaret River for the last 26 years. Michael is originally from Perth and has spent some time in Europe. ...

20
Apr
Who is a Witchcliffe Ecovillager? 12
Who is a Witchcliffe Ecovillager?

It’s been a fascinating process delving into the demographics of our future Ecovillage residents. We’re finding that enquiries and current buyers are originating from Perth and our local South West region in a fairly even split. A dozen or so future residents are joining us from the eastern states and ...

20
Apr