Category Archives: Witchcliffe Ecovillage

What a year! A 2024 wrap-up of life in the Ecovillage

Orchids in the Ecovillage Commons Conservation Area, images courtesy of Sandra Handy It’s been a busy year for all of us here at the Ecovillage office as we embarked upon the final stages of bringing this ground-breaking village to life, with a naturally smaller, but very focused team. There has ...

SEVI: An exemplar of how electric vehicles can energise communities

Researchers from Curtin University and the University of Technology Sydney are leading a team from across the country to investigate stand out examples of strategic electric vehicle integration (SEVI) as part of the RACE for 2030 Cooperative Research Centre (CRC). The project has selected the Witchcliffe Ecovillage as a world ...

Celebrating a milestone moment for the Ecovillage Commons!

The end of 2024 has seen us achieve a much-anticipated milestone, the amalgamation of the Ecovillage Commons land, which signals to us that we are inching ever closer to bringing the final piece of the Ecovillage masterplan, the Ecovillage Commons Limited (ECL) company, into community ownership. Community Avocado Orchard on ...

Short Stay Cottages available for bookings

We are excited to let you know that the three beautiful BirdNest holiday homes in Cluster 4D are open and taking bookings for short stay visitors. It is lovely for us to see their twinkling lights across the oval from the Community Centre when we work back at night, and ...

What 2025 holds for the WEV founders

Almost five gruelling years after starting construction in February 2020, Michelle and I are ready to start stepping back from full time work in the WEV office.  This is being made possible due to our fantastic Admin team, Karen & Michelle, book keeper, June, and the appointment of a new, ...

Ecovillage Profile : Karen Majer & Boyd Wykes

The first time I heard about the Witchcliffe Ecovillage was in November 2012 when Mike Hulme presented the idea for this innovative settlement to a Transition gathering at the (then) Tingrith meeting house. Over the years Boyd and I followed the Ecovillage from a twinkle in Mike and Michelle’s eyes ...

A visit from Narara Ecovillage founder

It’s been a year of unexpected and serendipitous connections for Mike and I with other Ecovillage developers in Australia. It’s a bit of a niche what we do in this space as creators of truly sustainable, community focused human settlements, and despite our different locations, we share many unique challenges ...

Buzzing with excitement: The Witchy Bee Collective

Early on, a number of us expressed an interest in keeping bees or wanted a way to be a part of bee keeping, without the overwhelm of doing it all ourselves! So together we have started a Witchy Bee Collective. There are about 12 interested residents so far who have ...

Ecovillage Waste Reduction Initiative launching in 2025

As the year was coming to an end, a group of keen Ecovillage residents with an interest in all things waste and recycling held a preliminary meeting to explore creating a hub at the  Ecovillage Community Centre for waste-reduction education and activities in 2025.  Waste accounts for a huge part ...