The weather gods smiled on the Edible Gardens Festival organisers this year as more than 500 punters came out in force to visit a diverse array of gardens across the Margaret River region. Read the organisers’ wrap-up here: https://ediblegardensfestival.au/edible-gardens-festival-2023-a-huge-success/ There is so much edible garden goodness going on at the ...
When we talk about modern intergenerational living, one extended family within the Ecovillage instantly springs to mind. We couldn’t be more thrilled to have welcomed five individual adult members of the Dunlop / Moore tribe who have each bought lots in various stages of the Witchcliffe Ecovillage. Setting an example ...
Sometimes it feels a little challenging to answer the question: “What’s life like in the Ecovillage?” Primarily, I am afraid of sounding like a cliché! And secondly, we’ve met so many people who are waiting to move into their Ecovillage homes, or are just starting their design journey, and we ...
By Paul Jurjevich, Cluster 1A resident and Ecovillage Vineyard Manager My family own a table grape vineyard in the Swan Valley and I was brought up working on the farm. I have always had a strong passion for horticultural practices and aquaculture since I was a child. I remember developing ...
As every gardener knows, having a garden is like being part of another world. There’s something about spending time with the plants, animals and microbes that just makes you feel connected to the whole thing. ...
It was 1983 and I was just 21 years old when I first fell in love with the Margaret River region. I’d just completed my summer holidays after finishing three years of teaching study and was told to be in Margaret River by the start of the second school week. ...
By Nick Macpherson, Resident of 21 Kulbardi Way (Cluster 2B) Over the last 15 or so years, my life has been very much based on the ocean through delivering yachts, teaching sailing, skippering vessels involved in eco-tourism and environmental monitoring. I have a passion for the natural environment, and love ...
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 ...
I know I say this all the time, but the excitement really IS building (literally and metaphorically) at the Witchcliffe Ecovillage. Nowhere was it more evident than at our very first Ecovillage Community ‘Meet Your Neighbours’ Sundowner, which we held on the lawn our front of the Ecovillage office on ...
