October 2023 Earlier this month, a German TV team came out to Great Bernera to film our life on the island. They were curious to find out why we chose to move from a large town in Bavaria to a small island in the Outer Hebrides. They were also interested in what steps we’re taking
June 2023 Since installing a multi-fuel burner in our living room in the winter of 2020/2021, we’ve wanted to gather peat to use as fuel, to add to the wood and coffee logs we’ve been burning in the colder months of the year. Peat is a traditional, cost-effective fuel which has been cut and burned
We decided in 2022 to start keeping honey bees. Our motives for doing so were threefold: to bring pollinators to our garden to help our fruit and vegetable crops to have a supply of honey as an alternative to less healthy sweeteners to be able to observe these beautiful creatures up close and personal It
April 2022 We’ve been in our home for three years now and our attempts at establishing a productive garden in the Outer Hebrides have been met with a number of challenges which we’re pleased to say we’re learning from. In 2020 we reported on the greenhouse we had built, and in 2021 we gave a
October 2021 We decided this year to try our hand at raising chickens. Back in the spring of 2020, we inherited three adult layers from a neighbour who was moving house, and since then our lovely ladies have provided us with a (somewhat intermittent) supply of fresh eggs. We don’t know how old the hens
The shores around Bernera are awash with a wide variety of seaweeds One of the activities we’ve been engaging in since moving to the Outer Hebrides is gathering seaweed and experimenting with using it in all manner of ways. We admit we’re only now starting to truly appreciate the wonder of this saltwater algae. Did
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