Adrian’s Croft

This is a place shaped by seasons, attention, and care.
Food is grown, systems are tested, and decisions are made in response to what the land — and life — asks.
It is not a finished design, but an ongoing conversation.

Adrian’s Croft is both a home and a working landscape.
Over the years, it has evolved through growing food, keeping animals, adapting infrastructure, and responding to changing capacity and context.
What you’ll find here is not a model to copy, but a place to observe, reflect, and experience what it looks like to work with nature rather than against it.

 Spend time here through simple, low-impact camping or occasional open days.
A chance to slow down, notice, and experience the rhythms of a working croft.

→ Plan your visit

From time to time, opportunities are available to join in with seasonal work and ongoing projects.
This is hands-on, practical learning — rooted in observation, participation, and shared responsibility.
→ Volunteering and involvement

The croft is a place where ideas are tested in real conditions.
Decisions around food, animals, energy, and land use are shaped by observation, limitations, and changing priorities.
→ See how permaculture is applied here

The thinking behind this place sits within a wider body of work.
Living Lightly Worldwide explores how we think, see, connect, choose, and act within living systems — supporting others to design responsibly in their own contexts.
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Small shifts in awareness lead to different decisions over time — this is permaculture in practice.

This month’s Small Shifts in Practice, recorded from real situations on the land and in everyday life.

A few observations and decisions — showing how how we think shapes how we see, and how that informs what we do in practice.