Category Archives: Community

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, ...

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 ...

From the Editor’s Desk

Sustainable House Day was a huge success – not only for us as the Ecovillage, but especially for our over 100 visitors attending the day. We opened up 8 houses with different building materials, one of them the first ever short stay accommodation in the village located overlooking the central ...

The Green Season – Gardening Tips for Autumn

At last, after a long, dry parched season, we’ve had some relieving rain. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, we can get a lot of leverage out of the water that falls from the sky in the wet season that’s ahead of us. Plants, soil fauna and ...

Sustainable Sanctuary

Offers from $995,000 Rare opportunity to purchase a beautiful strawbale home in the Witchcliffe Ecovillage 48 KULBARDI WAY, WITCHCLIFFE – CLUSTER 1C, WITCHCLIFFE ECOVILLAGE HOME OPEN THIS WEEKEND! It is a privilege for Village Homes Realty to offer for sale, in conjunction with Ray White Stocker Preston, this charming, sustainable ...

Summer garden goodness

By Mark Tupman, Productive Ecology* As another year of gardening draws to a close at the Ecovillage, residents are still busy planting out rounds of warm season vegetables and herbs – tomatoes, beans, pumpkins, zucchini’s, cucumbers, corn, capsicum, eggplant, chillies, potatoes, basil, etc. The weather has been beautiful over spring, ...

What’s going on at Kyloring Housing Co-op?

By Eugenie Stockmann – Development Manager, Co-operation Housing Centrally located within the Witchcliffe Ecovillage, Kyloring Housing Co-operative will be a pocket neighbourhood of shared facilities and 25 private homes, designed to promote a healthy lifestyle, accessibility, and social connections, for successful ageing in place. UPDATE: Members and explorers gathered in ...

Reflections on “3000 Generations” event

Early in November, Michelle and I were privileged to see our dear friends Dr Wayne (Wonitji) Webb and Stuart Hicks present their wonderful slide show on the Wadandi people’s inhabitation of our magnificent region, ‘3000 Generations & the Next One’, at The Margaret River HEART – Nana Bardip Mia (Our ...