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The Witchcliffe Ecovillage is infinitely photographable so beautiful are its rolling lush pastures, brimming clear dams, fauna-filled conservation zones and abundant gardens. Come along on this magical journey with us as we create a new sustainable community and change lives in the process.

WATCH THE WITCHCLIFFE ECOVILLAGE FILM

Released September 2021

Showcasing the magnificent Witchcliffe Ecovillage in all its abundant glory, our 42-minute promotional film is an exploration of one of the world’s most sustainable residential communities, located in Western Australia’s beautiful South West. Discover how the Witchcliffe Ecovillage is so much more than simply a place to live, work, learn and play. It’s the promise of a sustainable lifestyle, presents a pathway to a resilient future and offers a glimpse of a better world.

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"SURVIVOR" Burned, battered and scarred, this 200-300 year-old gnarly Jarrah stump was saved from near destruction in 1996 from its home near York by woodworking artisan Gary Bennett from @jahrocgalleries. Aptly nicknamed "Survivor", Gary saw the value in the majestic, ancient tree stump and carved this magnificent throne. Ecovillage co-founder Mike Hulme couldn't resist its call to sit in quiet contemplation and gave Survivor its new home at the Witchcliffe Ecovillage. Installed today, it now presides over the entryway to the Community Centre. Aren't we lucky? #survivor #community #sustainability #witchcliffeecovillage #wev #ecovillage #sustainableliving #margaretriverregion #margaretriver #witchcliffe #wadandiboodja
STAGE 5 LOTS ON SALE NOW Oh, it's worth the wait! Our last 42 residential lots in Clusters 5A and 5B are now available for reservation. With breathtaking views of the southern dam, forested areas, avocado orchard and vineyard, this is your last opportunity to live your sustainability values and be a part of the incredible Witchcliffe Ecovillage community. #stage5 #community #sustainability #witchcliffeecovillage #wev #ecovillage #sustainableliving #margaretriverregion #margaretriver #witchcliffe #wadandiboodja
STAGE 5 LOTS ON SALE NOW Oh, it's worth the wait! Our last 42 residential lots in Clusters 5A and 5B are now available for reservation. With breathtaking views of the southern dam, forested areas, avocado orchard and vineyard, this is your last opportunity to live your sustainability values and be a part of the incredible Witchcliffe Ecovillage community. #stage5 #community #sustainability #witchcliffeecovillage #wev #ecovillage #sustainableliving #margaretriverregion #margaretriver #witchcliffe #wadandiboodja
TALES & TRAILS LEAD TO THE ECOVILLAGE We're excited to appear (more than once) in the Margaret River region's superb flagship visitor's magazine, Tales & Trails, published by the MRBTA. The Autumn / Winter 2023 edition is out now and available all over the region. Pick one up at the @margaretriver Visitor Centre in Margs on your way to visit us in Witchy! #witchcliffeecovillage #wev #ecovillage #sustainableliving #community #sustainability #margaretriverregion #margaretriver #witchcliffe #wadandiboodja
TALES & TRAILS LEAD TO THE ECOVILLAGE We're excited to appear (more than once) in the Margaret River region's superb flagship visitor's magazine, Tales & Trails, published by the MRBTA. The Autumn / Winter 2023 edition is out now and available all over the region. Pick one up at the @margaretriver Visitor Centre in Margs on your way to visit us in Witchy! #witchcliffeecovillage #wev #ecovillage #sustainableliving #community #sustainability #margaretriverregion #margaretriver #witchcliffe #wadandiboodja
We're pretty chuffed to feature in the latest @reneworgau Magazine where Jo Thierfelder (Communications and Marketing Manager) puts her resident's hat on for a personal perspective of the @witchcliffe_ecovillage
We're pretty chuffed to feature in the latest @reneworgau Magazine where Jo Thierfelder (Communications and Marketing Manager) puts her resident's hat on for a personal perspective of the @witchcliffe_ecovillage "Witchcliffe is a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it sized town, only 10 minutes south of its much vaunted big sister, Margaret River, in WA’s spectacular South West. But times they are a-changin’. This sleepy, semi-rural hamlet is now home to a burgeoning community of diverse, eco-minded folk who are putting down roots in the Witchcliffe Ecovillage. And I’m one of them." Read the full article here: https://www.ecovillage.net.au/.../ecovillage-in-the-media-2/ #community #sustainability #witchcliffeecovillage #wev #ecovillage #sustainableliving #margaretriverregion #margaretriver #witchcliffe #wadandiboodja
We hope you can make time to read The Village Collective newsletter over your long weekend break and catch up on all the news from the Witchcliffe Ecovillage. Enjoy people!
We hope you can make time to read The Village Collective newsletter over your long weekend break and catch up on all the news from the Witchcliffe Ecovillage. Enjoy people!
Witchcliffe Ecovillage leads Australia in EV integration What better way to celebrate the milestone of switching on one of our first five newly-installed Tritium EV fast-charging stations yesterday than simultaneously launching the RACE for 2030’s Australian Strategic EV Integration Project (SEVI). SEVI is one of several priority projects within RACE for 2030, a project aimed at decarbonising Australia, which is Federally funded for 10 years to the tune of $68.5 million. The Witchcliffe Ecovillage is an industry partner in this electrifying project and our state-of-the-art renewable energy system is headlining the case studies in Australia. We were enormously proud to host key stakeholders from Curtin University’s Sustainability Policy Institute, UTS, industry partners and Ecovillage residents yesterday, and it was gratifying and humbling to hear these leading academic researchers positively gush over the strategic importance to Australia and the world of the Ecovillage project as a model for future sustainable communities. “It will be jaw-dropping to people in Europe and America, as what the Witchcliffe Ecovillage is doing is what everyone says will be normal one day in the future. The future has arrived in Witchcliffe.” - Professor Peter Newman AO #racefor2030 #racefor2030crc #ev #renewableenergy #community #sustainability #witchcliffeecovillage #wev #ecovillage #sustainableliving #margaretriverregion #witchcliffe #wadandiboodja
Witchcliffe Ecovillage leads Australia in EV integration What better way to celebrate the milestone of switching on one of our first five newly-installed Tritium EV fast-charging stations yesterday than simultaneously launching the RACE for 2030’s Australian Strategic EV Integration Project (SEVI). SEVI is one of several priority projects within RACE for 2030, a project aimed at decarbonising Australia, which is Federally funded for 10 years to the tune of $68.5 million. The Witchcliffe Ecovillage is an industry partner in this electrifying project and our state-of-the-art renewable energy system is headlining the case studies in Australia. We were enormously proud to host key stakeholders from Curtin University’s Sustainability Policy Institute, UTS, industry partners and Ecovillage residents yesterday, and it was gratifying and humbling to hear these leading academic researchers positively gush over the strategic importance to Australia and the world of the Ecovillage project as a model for future sustainable communities. “It will be jaw-dropping to people in Europe and America, as what the Witchcliffe Ecovillage is doing is what everyone says will be normal one day in the future. The future has arrived in Witchcliffe.” - Professor Peter Newman AO #racefor2030 #racefor2030crc #ev #renewableenergy #community #sustainability #witchcliffeecovillage #wev #ecovillage #sustainableliving #margaretriverregion #witchcliffe #wadandiboodja
LIL’ ECOVILLAGE GROWERS & SHARERS How cute is this little lady with her basket of cucumbers? Summer gardens are overflowing with produce and she, like many in the Ecovillage, are sharing the green love freely with neighbours and friends. And that’s what it’s all about. Pickles, anyone? #organicveg #permaculture #fairshare #selfsufficiency #community #sustainability #witchcliffeecovillage #wev #ecovillage #sustainableliving #margaretriverregion #margaretriver #witchcliffe #wadandiboodja
LIL’ ECOVILLAGE GROWERS & SHARERS How cute is this little lady with her basket of cucumbers? Summer gardens are overflowing with produce and she, like many in the Ecovillage, are sharing the green love freely with neighbours and friends. And that’s what it’s all about. Pickles, anyone? #organicveg #permaculture #fairshare #selfsufficiency #community #sustainability #witchcliffeecovillage #wev #ecovillage #sustainableliving #margaretriverregion #margaretriver #witchcliffe #wadandiboodja
It seems timely to post this photo (article is on our blog) from our last newsletter welcoming Wadandi custodians the Webb family as future residents of the Witchcliffe Ecovillage. Many Ecovillage residents attended the recent smoking ceremony held by the Undalup Association Inc. at Margaret River's river mouth on 26 January where Zac Webb spoke eloquently about connection to and care for country. #wadandiboodja #community #sustainability #witchcliffeecovillage #wev #ecovillage #sustainableliving #margaretriverregion #margaretriver #witchcliffe
It seems timely to post this photo (article is on our blog) from our last newsletter welcoming Wadandi custodians the Webb family as future residents of the Witchcliffe Ecovillage. Many Ecovillage residents attended the recent smoking ceremony held by the Undalup Association Inc. at Margaret River's river mouth on 26 January where Zac Webb spoke eloquently about connection to and care for country. #wadandiboodja #community #sustainability #witchcliffeecovillage #wev #ecovillage #sustainableliving #margaretriverregion #margaretriver #witchcliffe
REALISING A DREAM It's been a hard slog, realising this @witchcliffe_ecovillage dream, but it's all down to this tenacious couple: Mike Hulme and Michelle Sheridan. The work isn't finished yet but this special place is already changing lives for the better. What better legacy can one hope to leave than that? #legacyproject #changinglives #selfsufficiency #community #sustainability #witchcliffeecovillage #wev #ecovillage #sustainableliving #margaretriverregion #margaretriver #witchcliffe #wadandiboodja
REALISING A DREAM It's been a hard slog, realising this @witchcliffe_ecovillage dream, but it's all down to this tenacious couple: Mike Hulme and Michelle Sheridan. The work isn't finished yet but this special place is already changing lives for the better. What better legacy can one hope to leave than that? #legacyproject #changinglives #selfsufficiency #community #sustainability #witchcliffeecovillage #wev #ecovillage #sustainableliving #margaretriverregion #margaretriver #witchcliffe #wadandiboodja
AN OLDIE BUT A GOODIE We created this mindmap graphic years ago in an attempt to capture, at a glance, all that the Witchcliffe Ecovillage is doing and all the ways in which it's different to your average Australian residential development. Now with a living, breathing, growing community: it's truer today than it ever was. #selfsufficiency #community #sustainability #resilience #witchcliffeecovillage #wev #ecovillage #sustainableliving #margaretriverregion #margaretriver #witchcliffe #wadandiboodja
AN OLDIE BUT A GOODIE We created this mindmap graphic years ago in an attempt to capture, at a glance, all that the Witchcliffe Ecovillage is doing and all the ways in which it's different to your average Australian residential development. Now with a living, breathing, growing community: it's truer today than it ever was. #selfsufficiency #community #sustainability #resilience #witchcliffeecovillage #wev #ecovillage #sustainableliving #margaretriverregion #margaretriver #witchcliffe #wadandiboodja
A wide-ranging 12-page feature article on ecotourism in Margaret River titled
A wide-ranging 12-page feature article on ecotourism in Margaret River titled "Living The Good Life" just wouldn't be complete without the @witchcliffe_ecovillage . We're chuffed to share the pages of the latest @australiangeographic magazine with other wonderful, sustainable Margaret River enterprises such as @glenartyroad , @passelestate , @barnyard1978 @onetablefarm_creeandtim, @capetocapeexplorertours and @cullenwines . Read the full article on www.ecovillage.net.au
OUR COMMUNITY IS GROWING We’re delighted to see our shared vision for a diverse and supportive community of like-minded people coming to fruition. Here’s a little snapshot of life at the Ecovillage.
OUR COMMUNITY IS GROWING We’re delighted to see our shared vision for a diverse and supportive community of like-minded people coming to fruition. Here’s a little snapshot of life at the Ecovillage.

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