The open days are great on 2 fronts. It allows people to come and visit the Narara Ecovillage, have a tour of the site and hear about the history of the project mostly from the founder Lyndal Parris. After the village tours / talks the Narara Ecovillage Network host a topical talk on the month. We’ve seen sustainability officers from …
Next open day on Sat 28th Nov.
Our next open day is coming up! Saturday 28th of November. Come along to hear a presentation on the history of the project, a guided tour around the land, some light refreshments then stick around for our monthly talk from Mark Donohoe on “Sustainable Environments and Optimal Health.” Dr Mark Donohoe is one of Australia’s most experienced and best known …
Many hands make light work.
At the village we have at least 2 working bee’s a month. With so much land to maintain, council requirements for use and to get ready for building there’s always something to do. The major working bee’s normally tackle the hard work. The type of work is determined by our Site Management team and could involve: Chainsaw work from any of members that …
The Project – Oct 2015
The Project – October 2015 Organisation – the People We have a Project Director; a Construction Project Manager for Stage 1 infrastructure and the Bower Cluster; a Community Architect who liaised with the firm Hill Thalis to produce our Masterplan and about 20 other consultants. We have a Project Team, a Community Development Team, a Land Team, Buildings & Infrastructure Team …
Our trial Sunday open day.
We trialled a different format today and for those that came along we’d love to hear your feedback. What did we do differently? Well for one we held the Narara Eco Village open day on a Sunday instead of the usual Saturday. We brought the start time forward to 11am and ran the project presentation first. I think this last …
October open day on Sunday 25th.
Some folk have told us that Saturday’s can be tough to get to our open day! So this October we’ll hold the open day on Sunday. Sunday 25 October Open Day tours and our Network Talk of the Month 10.30 a.m. Registration, tea and sandwiches. 11 a.m. Presentation on Narara Ecovillage Project, followed by questions. 12 p.m. Site tours. 1 …
Project updates are on their way.
We’ve heard feedback from many folk that we need to get more information on this site. Particularly in relation to the project status but also things we are seeing with other Ecovillages around the world! As we start to pull together the content we’d love to hear what you’d like to see. Comment below and see what we can do! …