Hedge time

Hedge time

by | Feb 21, 2022 | homesteading

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 militant approach to minimal intervention, which firstly went down...
The same but different

The same but different

by | Sep 12, 2021 | homesteading, off grid

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 then. Ten years ago we were holed up in our truck in Bangor, building...
Summer updates from Lackan

Summer updates from Lackan

by | Jul 4, 2021 | homesteading, off grid

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 where I did a quick walk round. As you can see, we’ve made...
Being prepared

Being prepared

by | Oct 29, 2020 | homesteading, renewable energy, self sufficiency

The typical image of ‘preppers’ is of heavily armed Americans living in compounds in the mountains, with stockpiles of food and ammunition, or their close relatives the ‘survivalists’ who are kitted out ready to live in shelters in the woods,...
There’s so much to do!

There’s so much to do!

by | Oct 29, 2020 | homesteading, smallholding

As we approach Samhain – Halloween, and the midpoint of the latest lockdown or ‘extended half term’ as it’s sold to us, we’ve managed to get busy in the garden. Our apple crop this year was woeful, partly due to some odd frosts at bad...