Tag: isle of lewis


  • Beekeeping Update: July 2025

    To Super, or not to Super, that is July… As we entered July the rainfall was still fallin’, the breeze still breezin’ and the temperature still, erm, cool. So much […]

  • The Road to Croft 5 (pt.1)

    The windswept shores of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides may seem like a distant land to those comfortable with living on the mainland, but for me this […]

  • Beekeeping Update: June 2025

    As the Bee Flies Whilst I am bound in an endless loop of waiting encircled by nothing-happening-ness, drawn by the hands of the crofting commission and the islands solicitors, I […]

  • Buckfast Bees in the Hebrides

    Why We Chose Buckfast Bees When discussing beekeeping on the Isle of Lewis people spoke about a “Native Black Bee” or used the term “Hebridean Black Bee”. However there are […]