A note from the editor
Last year, between lockdowns, I visited North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. I spent a week in a little croft owned by a family who’d farmed there for years and had recently converted it into a holiday home. During that time, I experienced just a taste of how it feels to live in a truly isolated location. A curious mix of barren and breathtaking beauty, this lovely island embraces fast-changing weather fronts that whip across the land day and night, almost always accompanied by wind. According to locals, the windspeed rarely drops below 30mph and that constant battling against the elements brought home to me how tough life is there. In this issue (page 103), we meet a new generation of crofters from the Outer Hebrides. Whatever has gone before, they…