Category Archives: Sales & Marketing

Redink Homes Southwest joins the Ecovillage

We are delighted to announce that Redink Homes Southwest is joining the Ecovillage guild of builders, commencing immediately. Redink is a large project home building company with a substantial presence in the South West. This new offering is a welcome addition to the Ecovillage, giving buyers access to a company ...

WEV office moves to the Community Centre

The WEV team is so excited to have moved our office into the bright and shiny new Ecovillage Community Centre a few days ago. We’ve spent many years swallowing the irony of designing passive solar, thermally efficient homes while sitting on heated blankets and shivering in the perpetual cold and ...

Building Update – Dec 2022

We’re so thrilled with the quality and diversity of homes being built in the Ecovillage to date. Homes are predominantly being built from timber, straw bale, reverse brick veneer and hempcrete (apparently the most hempcrete homes in one suburb in the Southern Hemisphere, and soon to be the world). They’re ...

Ecovillage Lot Sales Update – Dec 2022

Buyers come out of hibernation Ask any real estate agent and they’ll tell you buyers come out of hibernation in spring. That’s certainly the case in South West WA where the end of winter is highly anticipated and celebrated by locals. The Ecovillage sales team has definitely registered a spike ...

From the Editor’s Desk

Taking stock, 13 years in It’s astonishing to look back at how much we’ve achieved since we put our first lot on the market a mere two and a half years ago, after more than 11 years in planning. Capturing a moment in time, here are some fun facts as ...

Ecovillage Sales Office closed for the holidays 

It’s impossible to sum up a year like 2022, other than to say, PHEW! The Ecovillage team, like so many of you, will be taking a good long break to recharge our (solar) batteries and soak up that summer sunshine.  I’m looking forward to lazy days at the beach and ...

Baby doll babies

It’s lambing season and we have babies in our vineyard! But these are no ordinary white, gangly, bouncy lambs: our Ecovillage Babydoll sheep push the cute factor to 11! The Southdown breed, otherwise known as Babydoll or Teddy Bear sheep with a smile, are an adorable, docile and versatile breed ...

Byron Bay Affordable Housing Summit

Shelle and I recently had the great honour of being invited to Byron Bay by their Shire Council as the keynote speakers at its Affordable Housing Summit. It was a wonderful opportunity for us to visit the region and see our oldest daughter Amala, who’s been living and working there ...

Ecovillager Profile: South West dreams come true

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 ...