Can you help the Happy Pig?
[youtube height=”480″ width=”600″]ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qopqYjIbVM[/youtube] Mark Boyle, known for his writing about living without money, has settled in Ireland, on a 3 acre smallholding, and hopes to create a free space for...
I Am Alive
If you enjoyed ‘Live before you die’, then you’ll love ‘I Am Alive’, again from Dreamtime Films. [vimeo height=”480″ width=”600″]http://vimeo.com/32915202[/vimeo]
A Million Trees in One Day
Last year we took part in the million trees in one day initiative, which very ambitiously hoped to do what it said on the tin. Technically this year it should be called ‘The rest of one million trees in one day’ but the sentiment is the right one. Some...
When you gotta go, you gotta go…
We love composting toilets. Most of the time. As three quarters of domestic water useage goes to flushing the loo, composters are an easy way to drastically reduce water consumption, and in return you get some useful compost. As a society we have become used to our...
The wood fuelled home
It has to be said, our lives revolve around wood, and as a fuel trees are hard to beat. They lock up carbon, are completely renewable, and have multiple uses. Trees are key to our approach, both in providing habitat here at Lackan, and as a sustainable source of fuel....
Custodians of the cottage
It struck me as we work away here that our efforts are incredibly transient – part of a cycle of ebb and flow at Lackan, as occupants appear, make their mark, the place blooms, and then they age, and the place ages with them, falls into disrepair, and is ready...
DIY Living – Just Do It
[youtube height=”HEIGHT” width=”WIDTH”]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_LYefajhk4[/youtube] I saw this today and it really moved me. Enjoy. “Their power comes from our obedience. Disobey”
Here we go again
So much has changed in the last year that looking back to this time last year is like peering at another age altogether. We had no beds to grow food in, a solitary little polytunnel, no pond, no paths, no water anywhere we needed it, there was still a huge pile of...
The end of an amazing year.
Well, the winter solstice is here, and as the shortest day comes to a close, its amazing to look back on everything that has happened over the last 12 months, and all the people that it has been our privilege to welcome to the farm. This time last year we had yet to grow a vegetable here, and without the hard work of all the volunteers, from near and far, we wouldn’t have seen the results that we did. The highlight of our year was surely the time we spent with our permaculture course visitors, and the energy that they brought to the farm.
The Landworkers Alliance
We are members of the Landworkers Alliance – a group of people who work the land, campaigning for the rights of small producers and a better food system. It is part of La Via Campesina international and works in solidarity with fellow land workers across the...