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Making the most of the light

by Steve Byrne | Nov 11, 2020 | off grid

We’re into the part of the year that is hardest for those living off grid, when the days are getting increasingly short, the sun doesn’t appear that often, and when he does, he’s pretty low in the sky. Having been terribly casual about the whole...

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by Steve Byrne | May 15, 2020 | media, off grid

Subscribe We’re in the process of creating more video content so that you can take a look around, and find out about all the projects and systems here at Lackan. We’re also going to be moving a lot of our course content online over the coming months as it...

Barra on the Bann

by Steve Byrne | Dec 30, 2019 | media, off grid

One of the best aspects of life here is that we get to try our hand at things that we’d never thought of. Filming is one of them, and over the last few years we’ve been involved in quite a few programmes. They’ve been great for introducing what we do...

Wood pellet boiler adventures

by Steve Byrne | Nov 22, 2019 | off grid, renewable energy, self sufficiency

Sometimes we’re just cruising along doing our thing and a project arrives out of the blue. In this case it came in the form of our largest freecycle ever, courtesy of Leo, who had spotted it and decided it was too big a thing to deal with. ‘It’ is a...

Tidying up the power station

by Steve Byrne | Sep 9, 2019 | off grid, renewable energy

I actually did this work earlier in the summer but never got around to posting it. We decided to install another 4kw of solar pv, principally to allow us to run immersion heaters in both cottages over the summer and thus almost completely remove the need for lighting...

Making headway in the garden

by Steve Byrne | Aug 30, 2019 | off grid, permaculture

Every day now it feels like we are making headway in the garden, this week we’ve brought in 4000 litres of compost to put on the newly manured beds, and that gives us a really nice fine surface to sow and plant into. It’s pretty late now, but we’ve...