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.
New controller – caution off grid nerd alert
In my search for a well made charge controller that would allow me to configure it properly, I came across Karasouli - www.karasouli.com It's easily configurable, and also does proper data logging, for voltage and wind turbine performance, and its made in England,...
New controller – caution off grid nerd alert
In my search for a well made charge controller that would allow me to configure it properly, I came across Karasouli - www.karasouli.com It's easily configurable, and also does proper data logging, for voltage and wind turbine performance, and its made in England,...
A close shave
Nothing quite like an occasional reminder of my mortality, (which used to arrive almost daily in my days as a horse trainer, and which are now fairly few and far betweeen), but which today came when the dumper truck I was driving rolled down the hill I was...
Enjoying being a Power Generator
Our solar may be reliable, and every day I thank it for providing yet more free power without having to go and prod it in any way, but there is something very satisfying about sitting watching the wind generator spinning. Somehow it proves that theres electricity...
We’ve got wind
Today we put up the wind generator - a huge thank you is due to all those who very kindly gave us something towards it - with any luck that gift will keep on helping to make power for us for a long time to come. Thanks also to Sinead, who unwittingly came for lunch...
The Tir Teg crew
It's been a busy month to say the least, but more of that later. Last week we were in Wales, and spent a few days at the PontYGafel farmhouse plotting the building of our empire, and exploring all the local towns. The Tir Teg group is getting well established now,...