Harvesting peat to keep my parents warm on a remote Scottish island farm

My parents have been farming sheep on a remote Scottish island for nearly 50 years. For half that time, they've had a flock of North Ronaldsays, or Rollies, an ancient breed of seaweed-eating sheep native to the Orkney Islands. I took a sabbatical from my job as a TV news reporter to help for four months and decided to film a documentary series about their unique lifestyle while I was there. In this episode we weigh some peat to give some factual basis to my claim to be pulling my weight, then we collect the half dried peat to take it home. Plus, we have a mail delivery from the fisherman who has been bringing it to us for more than 40 years.

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- Making the products we sell from the wool    • Making money from seaweed-eating shee...  

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Shot on my Sony A7C (28mm, 35-70mm, 70-180mm lenses)
Plus some shots on the iPhone 11
Audio with DJI wireless lavs and Rode Videomic NTG