Meet Minou

Meet Minou

Something that was on my list for last year and which got moved to this year is to visit some of the many folk that I’ve supplied with energy systems, or simply advice, or met along the way, and record their stories, in writing, in pictures and maybe video, with...
Round(ish) house project update

Round(ish) house project update

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 thought would never end. After a quick start, the thought of...
Celebrating our tenth year with new courses

Celebrating our tenth year with new courses

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 things that were relatively ‘fringe’ back in 2012 are...
Tour and talk at Lackan -24th April 2022

Tour and talk at Lackan -24th April 2022

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 from people to come and look around and ask questions, and this is...
The same but different

The same but different

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...