Wildlife Croft Skye

15/08/2026

Dinner time! These Sawfly caterpillars (of Euura papillosa) were busy munching this Aspen leaf today.

03/07/2026

Join us for an inspiring afternoon exploring how the wildlife on your farm or croft can provide opportunities for food, business, conservation, and

22/06/2026

Join us this Saturday for a Bioblitz at the Broadford Community Woodland! All welcome - we will have expert naturalists on site and will endeavour to record as many species as we can, from the biggest birds down to the tiniest ants!

Kick off at 10:30am at the Growers Hub with a look through the moth traps with Phil before exploring the different habitats. We have so few biological records from the woodland site - come along and make a real difference, and learn from the experts! We will be here until around 3pm, light snacks and refreshments provided.

Please note this event is weather permitting - please double check on our page on Friday evening. All children must be supervised when on site. All queries to [email protected]

Photo - Garden Tiger moth from Broadford

11/05/2026

Orange-tips are very common on the croft here. They have very simple requirements in order to thrive, with a diversity of native flowers to nectar on and stands of Cuckoo-flower or Ladies Smock plants allowed to flower and seed. Well managed livestock or cutting regimes are an excellent tool for creating the ideal habitats for this most beautiful of butterflies.

10/02/2025

Croft grown trees 🌳🌳🌳

Please check our website www.drumfearntrees.co.uk for our full list of available fruit and native trees!

We have hundreds of Birch, Alder, Rowan, Hazel, Oak, Willow, Dog Rose and many more native trees and shrubs.

Still over 30 different varieties of Apple left for sale, 2 types of Pear and a few Medlar too! Do get in touch if you have any questions!

29/01/2025

Chips, chips and more chips! Our own ramial chipped wood for the first time, mostly Alder, with a bit of Willow and Birch. This will make a super moisture-retaining and w**d suppressing mulch, all while slowly feeding the soil biology! This happy Bramley apple tree will hopefully have a great summer, regardless of the vagaries of the Scottish weather!

18/10/2024

October sunrises

06/11/2023

📷 Asad Iqbal, The Highland Collective

05/11/2023

Stonechat Bothy, October 2023
📷Asad Iqbal, The Highland Collective

31/10/2023

🐞 We’ve had some really exciting wildlife firsts this month! A male Black Grouse dropped in one Sunday afternoon, there’s been a Water Shrew, and this cool looking Spiked Shieldbug.

🐝 We’ve been quiet on Facebook recently, but we’ve both been keeping busy with lots of projects, including sprucing up Stonechat Bothy, making willow baskets, and growing native trees and fruit trees to sell.

🌳 You can follow Phils tree business (Drumfearn Trees) and my basket making journey over on instagram.

🌄 We’ve also set up an instagram account just for Stonechat Bothy too!

🍏 Food has taken a bit of a back seat lately, but we did make a wee batch of apple and quince chutney, and a really delicious medlar crumble! We’ve a good supply of jam and potatoes to keep us going, and chard, kale and spring onions happily growing.