Category Archives: Witchcliffe Ecovillage

Ecovillage sales updates – Dec 2024

Last lots selling in stage 4 and 5!  As we wind up a busy year of sales tours and presentations, we are delighted to have welcomed 47 new owners to the Ecovillage in 2024! We now have just 10 Family lots for sale in Stage 4 and 5, and only ...

Cluster 3D Ag Lots strata handover

On the 16th of November, the owners of the Cluster 3D Agricultural lots came together for the first time for their strata AGM and handover from the Ecovillage team. There was excellent attendance, a delicious quiche, and much discussion as they took their first steps as an independent survey strata ...

115 Ecovillage households and counting

Looking west across the stingray dam to Redgate Beach ...

Founders build to start in January

Almost 5 years after starting construction of the Ecovillage, in February 2020 (I can’t believe it’s been that long!) we are finally about to start construction of our home.  Our sand pad has gone down and we start construction in late January.  There’s been almost as many iterations of our ...

Water for Life

Some of you will remember my last newsletter article on Ecovillage Water in May ’24, after the driest seven months on record where we only received 40mm of rain at the Ecovillage. I stated in this article that historically, very dry summers are often followed by wetter than average winters, ...

Currumbin Ecovillage visit

Shelle and I had a wonderful working holiday in the Northern Rivers Region of NSW during the second half of August. It’s become an annual trip since our daughter, Amala, moved there 4yrs ago. We’ve fortunately been able to combine each trip with some consulting work there, including being the ...

Energy update: annual returns for majority

Witchcliffe Ecovillage, 2024 The Ecovillage continues to use 100% renewable energy, exports over three times more renewable energy than it consumes, and is very close to being completely self-sufficient in renewable energy from onsite solar and battery. It’s been a wonderful year on the energy front in the Ecovillage with ...

From the Editors’ Desk

Hello! Here we are again with another jam-packed edition of our Ecovillage newsletter, as we enter the first summer Wadandi season of Birak.  In Birak, the Karrack (Red-tailed) and Mannitj (White-tailed) Black cockatoos announce their welcome presence across the village with shrill cries as they look for food to feed ...

Thermy Permies: Investigating the Thermal Performance of Ecovillage Homes

Photo: Markus Winkler We had a lot of fun doing the first survey of how well our homes are performing during a 38C day in February, towards the end of a week-long heat wave! We have assembled an awesome team of Ecovillage volunteers for this task, all but me with ...