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Browsing Archive: September, 2010

One for the pot - 4th Sept 2010

Posted by Barry Shelby on Saturday, September 4, 2010, In : Crofting 

Well, with little relish but clear resolve, we culled a Welsummer cockerel last weekend. We will do one a week for the rest of the month. That night it made a decent roast bird, served alongside all our own croft produce: broad beans mashed with fresh ‘green’ garlic, boiled Stroma second early potatoes, peas, shallots, and some of those funny ball-shaped Paris variety carrots. The bird’s liver was a succulent highlight. In the future, we will probably go the slow-cooked, braising route ...


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The envelope please ...... - 3rd Sept 2010

Posted by Barry Shelby on Friday, September 3, 2010, In : Crofting 

Bernera Community Association came home with four ribbons from the annual Horticulture Show in Stornoway. The best result was 1st place for a trio of lovely onions (variety: Sturon) grown from sets. Strawberries (Florence) came 2nd and two 3rd place certificates were earned for the volunteer horticulturalists’ rainbow carrots and display of 18 veg. As for 1 Earshader croft, 1st place was bagged in the growing herb category (rosemary, sage, and comfrey).

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 Colin Macleod - Local Lad + Landscapes:

Again in the music-videologue-of-Lewis-vein: this one features the rather frightfully handsome lad, Colin Macleod. Pal of Dotjr, apparently. New CD (on Geffen) due out soon.

 

 

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Barry Shelby Barry Shelby, American-gone-native-Scotsperson, Journalist , Photographer, Author and....Crofter located now at Earshader on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Barry, based for years in Glasgow, is now with his wife Elizabeth on the Islands off the North-West Coast of Scotland.

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Lewis (Scottish Gaelic: Leòdhas,  also Isle of Lewis) is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island of the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides (an archipelago) of Scotland. The total area of Lewis is 683 square miles (1,770 km2).

Lewis is, in general, the lower lying part of Lewis and Harris, with the other part, Harris, being more mountainous. The flatter, more fertile land means Lewis contains the only town, Stornoway and three-quarters of the population of the Western Isles. Beyond human habitation, the island's diverse habitats are home to an assortment of flora and fauna, such as the golden eagle, red deer and seals and are recognised in a number of conservation areas.

Lewis is of Presbyterian tradition with a rich history, having once been part of the Norse Kingdom of Mann and the Isles. Today, life is very different to elsewhere in Scotland with Sabbath observance, the Gaelic language and peat cutting retaining more importance than elsewhere. Lewis has a rich cultural heritage as can be seen from its myths and legends as well as the local literary and musical traditions.

 

(source Wikipedia)

So where is Earshader?

 

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