1 EAGLETON NOTES: Crofting

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Showing posts with label Crofting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crofting. Show all posts

Sunday, 15 May 2016

Shepherding: Lewis style.

We were having lunch yesterday when Gaz pointed out that in a croft several over from my house sheep were being moved. We see few enough sheep these days and most of the crofts are too overgrown and often too boggy for a quad bike to be used but here were sheep being moved using an ordinary two-wheel drive family car. It says a lot for the good husbandry of that croft (the car was driven from top to bottom) but also says something about the driver: that is not flat land by any means.
 



 



Saturday, 21 July 2012

The Farming of Fences - Revisited

In October 2009 I posted on crofting being called 'the farming of fences'.  CJ and I went over to the West Side (of Lewis) yesterday.  In Ness I suddenly saw another photogenic reminder of the phenomena:


Monday, 19 October 2009

The Farming Of Fences


Crofting is often described as the farming of fences.  This is part of the view from my Study window.  I can understand how the description came about!