Lackan Cottage Farm – Low impact and off grid smallholding

Something we learned the hard way is that it’s great to let some things grow wild, but that others really do need managing. In particular, hedges. Our early years here were marked by a pretty m...

https://lackancottage.co.uk/hedge-time/

After two years I’ve finally succumbed to covid, so am waiting out my quarantine by updating some of the information on the website. First up is the roundhouse – a project that at one point I...

https://lackancottage.co.uk/roundish-house-project-update/

2022 marks our tenth year here at Lackan Cottage Farm, and a lot has changed, both here at the farm and in the wider world. Much of what we’ve done here seems very relevant in 2022, and many th...

https://lackancottage.co.uk/celebrating-our-tenth-year-with-new-courses/

This is our tenth year here at Lackan. After two years when we’ve basically been closed down, and the world has changed in many ways it is time to open up again. We’ve had lots of requests fr...

https://lackancottage.co.uk/tour-and-talk-at-lackan-29th-may/

This is our tenth year here at Lackan. After two years when we’ve basically been closed down, and the world has changed in many ways it is time to open up again. We’ve had lots of requests fr...

https://lackancottage.co.uk/tour-and-talk-at-lackan-24th-april-2022/

Five years ago now we started building the strawbale roundhouse, which has been a slow affair, mainly due to not having any good clay with which to make earth plaster.  The roundhouse has sat th...

https://lackancottage.co.uk/finishing-the-roundhouse/

***Sorry we have sold out of tickets for this one. We will run another so click here to leave your contact details and we’ll let you know when the next date is **** We’re offering a guided to...

https://lackancottage.co.uk/guided-tour-of-lackan-cottage-farm/

It’s nearly ten years now since we landed here at Lackan and in some ways the world has changed very little, and in others we live in an utterly different universe to the one we inhabited back ...

https://lackancottage.co.uk/the-same-but-different/

I get asked about heating a lot. What’s best, the most cost effective, simplest, efficient. All that. So this is a collection of my thoughts based on all the various things we’ve tried (and w...

https://lackancottage.co.uk/thoughts-on-heating-systems/

July already, how did that happen.Needless to say we’ve done a fair bit since my last post back in December, so I’m not even going to try and cover it all, as its mostly in a recent video whe...

https://lackancottage.co.uk/summer-updates-from-lackan/