Bill and Sukie's Good Life. Making a living on a Highland Croft.

In 2004 we gave up the remorsless grind of running a small hotel and bought a 3 hectare croft in the loch side villiage of Strontian.

A house was needed for the family and a further property required for self catering to provide an income.

We also planed to produce much of our own food so establishing a veg garden, a large poly tunnel and housing for livestock was another priority.

Six years on we are running low on children, with six gone and just two left, but other livestock has flourished with our house cow Daisy and three followers, a pair of pigs fattening, and flocks of geese, chickens and ducks.

With plenty of muck and compost veg and fruit gardens have done well and so Billandsukieatbluebellcroft has become Bill and Suki eat Bluebell croft helped, of course, by family, friends and guests.