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On Your Farm: Crofting in the Hebrides

07/11/2021

Crofting in the Hebrides

BBC Radio 4 - On Your Farm, Crofting in the Hebrides

Nancy Nicolson meets crofter Donald Macsween on the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides.

Nancy Nicolson is on the Hebridean island of Lewis, meeting crofter Donald Macsween. She finds out about crofting in this remote windswept location on the edge of the Atlantic.

Nancy Nicolson visits the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, where windspeeds can reach more than a hundred miles an hour. She meets crofter Donald Macsween who's lived here all his life, and farms cattle, sheep, pigs and hens. He sells his produce locally - meat, eggs, sheepskin and wool - and this year has missed the customers normally brought in by visiting cruise ships. Nancy meets Donald's mother Annie, who was born and brought up in a crofting family - like her father and grandfather before her. Donald also has his own television programme on BBC Alba, the BBC's Gaelic language service. He tells Nancy about the challenges of trying to look after livestock in this windswept location on the edge of the Atlantic, as he chats to his animals in Gaelic. 

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