Stories from our intentional community
Narara Ecovillage was a Finalist in the 2024 Banksia Sustainability Awards: Place Making. This category celebrates sustainability through innovative design and practices, resource conservation, energy efficiency, circularity, renewable energy and biodiversity, as well as social sustainability, inclusivity, mobility, well-being, and community engagement. Narara Ecovillage has been named as a Finalist in the 2024 Banksia Sustainability Awards in the category of Place Making. …
On September 6th, our Members Lounge glowed with the warmth of good food and plenty of yellow as we gathered for a Turmeric Potluck Dinner. Everyone was invited to bring a dish featuring fresh turmeric – and the creativity was inspiring. From turmeric tofu curry and creamy turmeric chicken with chickpeas, to chickpea and lentil curry, savoury turmeric pancakes, turmeric …
Trevor and Scilla became members of Narara Ecovillage in 2014 – very soon after their partnership began. For Scilla, at least, an understanding of the challenges presented by establishing an ecovillage, knowing the history of Narara and the awareness that Deep Ecology had a presence were all factors in her decision to join. From the start, Scilla and Trevor were …
Rosemary and Rafaele are referred to in the village as R and R, not for Rest and Recreation but for Recycling and Retrofitting. They met a few years ago at a stage where they were looking for a lifestyle that would support their wellbeing in retirement, while offering avenues for helping the community and environment. Coming from backgrounds in academia …
Over the past years, we’ve been transforming a patch of clay and gravel under an old metal pole domed structure, known as the TripleSpan, into something special. What started as a bare space is now 500 square meters of thriving garden beds, thanks to the dedication of volunteers who run it as a community garden. It has become a real …
Guy and Suzie with their school-aged daughter, Lila, moved from Victoria to the ecovillage in 2021 to rent from ecovillage-founder friends who own a townhouse here. They liked it so much they decided to buy a block and build! Their 8.5 star home was completed in 2025 – a split-level home at the top of the hill, made from aerated …
The team from Everything Electric Show came to visit and interviewed our Jon Ellis, Head of NEV Power which operates the village’s microgrid and community battery.
THE SWIFT PARROT (Lathamus discolor) is a brightly coloured bird native to Australia. It is known as Swift “Waylitja” in the indigenous Tasmanian language. This parrot is recognised for its vibrant green feathers, scarlet forehead, and bright blue flashes. The Swift Parrot is critically endangered, primarily due to habitat loss due to native forest logging. Narara Ecovillage is actively involved …
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Kate and Mike were the very first people to move on site along with Linda Scott. The Ecovillage Co-operative took ownership of the property in 2013 after a long settlement with the previous owners. The existing Managers Cottage, quickly renamed ‘Heritage House’, had been vacant for a while and the house and garden needed a lot of work to make …
As Linda enters her 80’s, she looks forward to enjoying more recreation and social life when her time-consuming building project is completed. She’d like to get back to writing and enjoying more art and books. Linda has been building an extraordinary house, with her passion for natural building that was sparked when, as a WWOOFer volunteer in UK, she experienced …
Tanya was drawn to Narara Ecovillage because of its intention to be a demonstration village with a focus on education, the credibility that came from the connection to the Global Ecovillage Network with proven experiential resources and the need in our world for examples of regeneration and sustainability. “I realised the village had all my passions rolled into one. I …
The original and key aim of Narara Ecovillage was, among other things, to: ‘research, design and build an intergenerational, demonstration ecovillage’. Currently of the two hundred or so Nararians, 37% are under 50 years of age (20% of these are children); interestingly, few in their 20s, perhaps for very explainable reasons. We recognise the importance of intergenerational living as embedding …
Heidi found the Ecovillage community a few years ago. The appeal to be surrounded by a village while raising children was strong. It was a way to live the homestead lifestyle without the isolation. There was a lot to consider with juggling finances, shared access for the boys and work commitments. Heidi dipped in and out for 2-3 years until …
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