Looking forward to 2026 at Lackan Cottage Farm
Aaaand – we’re back. Let’s just pretend that the yawning gap between the last post and this one didn’t happen. A lot has happened here at Lackan and now that 2026 is upon us, it feels like we are moving into a new phase. Anyone who has followed...
Hedge time
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...
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
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 – 28th May
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...
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...
Finishing the roundhouse
Five years ago now we started building the strawbale roundhouse, which has been a slow affair, mainly due to not having any good clay with which to make earth plaster. The roundhouse has sat there full of junk – a wasted opportunity that has nagged at me each...
Guided tour of Lackan Cottage Farm
***Sorry we have sold out of tickets for this one. We will run another so click here to leave your contact details and we’ll let you know when the next date is **** We’re offering a guided tour of Lackan on Sunday 26th September, where we will be looking...
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...
Thoughts on heating systems
I get asked about heating a lot. What’s best, the most cost effective, simplest, efficient. All that. So this is a collection of my thoughts based on all the various things we’ve tried (and we’ve tried quite a few). So far we have (or have had)...
Summer updates from Lackan
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...