by Steve Byrne | Jun 23, 2017 | composting toilets
Lackan Cottage Farm (and our compost toilets) have teamed up with Toilet Twinning, to help provide clean water, basic sanitation, and hygiene education to people in some of the most deprived areas of the world. Nearly one third of the world’s population lacks access to even the most basic sanitation, whilst at the same time, nearly one third of household water use in developed countries ends up being flushed down the toilet.Â
by Steve Byrne | Jan 16, 2014 | composting toilets
We love composting toilets. Most of the time. As three quarters of domestic water useage goes to flushing the loo, composters are an easy way to drastically reduce water consumption, and in return you get some useful compost. As a society we have become used to our...
by Steve Byrne | Jun 1, 2013 | composting toilets
When we moved in to Lackan Cottage Farm a year ago, we inherited a variety of concrete and tin sheds, none of which were (or are) terribly pretty. Â Eventually we’ll replace or clad them all in timber, and we decided to make a start with the outside toilet. Â We...
by Steve Byrne | Apr 13, 2013 | composting toilets, low impact living, natural building, smallholding, the farm
Something that we’ve desperately needed since arriving is a decent outside composting loo, if only to save muddy hordes coming in and out of the house in the depths of winter. We inherited an old tin hut of an outside loo, that had the particularly...
by Steve Byrne | Sep 18, 2011 | composting toilets
Well, after two days frenzied activity, here is the new treebog. Thanks to all who helped bring it about – it is truly a thing of beauty, and should settle nicely into its woodland setting. We used sawmill skins almost exclusively to build it, and its the first...
