Birch Cottage has a new website of its own
Visit the Birch Cottage website to bookWelcome to Lackan Cottage Farm
We’re Steve and Claire Golemboski-Byrne, we live here off grid with our daughter, our dog, cats and horses. We make all our own energy using wind and solar, grow as much of our own food as we can (it varies widely) and have used permaculture design principles to help us create a great place to live.
Here on the website you’ll find stories about the projects we’ve undertaken – what works, what doesn’t. You can come stay in our guest cottage – Birch Cottage and we will show you round, or maybe you just want to find out how to do some of this stuff. Either way, welcome.
Days like this are worth waiting for
We may have had the wettest winter for 100 years but days like this are worth waiting for. Perfectly frosty and clear, no noise except for the hens helping me to muck out the stables, and the smell of woodsmoke. It doesn't get a lot better than that. Suddenly...
Want to join in?
If you fancy rolling up your sleeves and coming to be part of a new smallholding, then we want to hear from you. We're going to register as Wwoof hosts, but if anyone wants to come and spend time under the usual Wwoof agreement, ie - we house and feed you in return...
Falling off the woody wagon
I feel like a smoker who is trying to give up and who has fallen off the wagon. Although our range isn't really suited to wood, and is 50+ years old, a few alterations and it has burned pretty well, with one slight snag - the quantities that it consumes. Admittedly...
Poll
It is on this day every year that I remember Poll, my most excellent horse friend of many years. I'll tell Lyra about him.