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Croft field strips and fallow on the machair, North Uist
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Western Isles - Balranald and western North Uist
Traditional extensive croft field strips on the machair at RSPB Balranald, North Uist, showing strip fields of mixed barley and oats, and a fallow section on the right. Note how wildlfowers have been left rather than killed by herbicides, which provides nectar for insects and seeds for birds.
08 August 2017
Reworked lazy beds, Coll
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Coll Northwest
Traditional lazy beds being reworked, Coll. Lazy beds were used to impove the drainage and increase the soil depth in rocky areas with thin soil.
This is one of few examples in Scotland where the traditional practice is still used, as most crofters have simply stopped growing crops altogether in areas of poor soil.
25 April 2014
Disused lazy beds, Coll
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Coll Northwest
Disused traditional lazy beds on an abandoned field, Coll. Lazy beds were used to impove the drainage and increase the soil depth in rocky areas with thin soil.
25 April 2014
Ragged Robin, Fetlar
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Shetland - Fetlar
Hay meadow with Ragged Robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi), Aithbank, Fetlar. Traditional extensive methods of farming support greater biodiversity than more intensive methods such as monoculture.
16 July 2013
Playing traditional Shetland music
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Shetland - Lerwick
Playing traditional Shetland music in the Lounge bar, Lerwick
17 July 2013
Traditional crofting, Yell
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Shetland - Yell
Traditional crofting landscape on Yell, with an old tractor and haystacks.
