Projects

In 2023 ECOSS was fortunate to receive a grant from DEECA- Deer Control Program to install Deer Fencing.

Pollination Place Pollination Place is a cross pollination of innovative projects addressing food security, climate resilient food growing, carbon drawdown and community. Projects

In collaboration with Aunty Kim and her work to share the Creation Story, a ‘soundscape box’ is to be designed, built and positioned at ECOSS

ECOSS plans to bring new life to the performance area on the village green through improvements to the stage area.

‘Crops for Community’ is educating and empowering volunteers of all abilities to create food crops to be available at our weekly produce market.

ECOSS embraced the opportunity to immerse in the Wayapa Wuurrk, and had the chance to ask Aunty Kim Wandin and Michelle many questions.

The third cubby in our Cultural Homes of the World demonstations- funded by The Andrews Foundation, is our Koori Cubby.

Healesville High School year 8 Art Students have almost completed an Earthbag ‘Home of the World’- the first of a series of cubbies that will be constructed funded by a small grant from The Andrews Foundation. 

Mt Lilydale Mercy College Students building a sculpture of Bunjil the creator as part of our reconciliation event.

ECOSS were lucky enough to recieve an Australian Government Indigenous Languages and Arts Grant in 2019. This grant enabled a very special Cultural Audit with HICSA (Healesville Indigenous Community Services Association).

Together with the local indigenous kids from EACH, ECOSS have created a space to prompt conversation about reconciliation.

Native Bee Wall We are committed to looking after our Native Bee’s here at ECOSS.  Wesley Mission clients are attending ECOSS every Monday,

ECOSS working with Cire Community School year 9 students to progress Earth Building Demonstration Walls.

Cire Service year 9 students have built a functional biofiltration system here at ECOSS.  This was funded by Melbourne Water’s Rural Land Program, and some plants donated by Australian Ecosystems.

Three year 7 students from Cire Services will be looking after the ECOSS frog bog one day per week, and joining in on the Frog Census!

ECOSS hosted a Bushfire Safe Building workshop and tour facilitated by Tom Neil in collaboration with local CFA. This involved a presentation at ECOSS on Bushfire Safe building considerations and tours of homes in Warburton built to withstand bushfires. 

Dr Annie Yoffa was a world traveller, surgeon, psychiatrist, philosopher, published writer and student of Freud. She was also the first woman to hike the Warburton to Walhalla trail, across the Victorian Baw Baw Ranges, unaccompanied in 1929. She dedicated her life to the study of nature and was struck by lightning, in Mount Martha, while conducting research in the field of psychodynamics.

ECOSS created a Woi Wurrung creation story mural, depicting the story of how 'Man & Woman' were created.