My parents have been farming a rare breed of seaweedeating sheep on a remote island in Scotland called Auskerry for nearly half a century, but age and ill health is forcing them to face a future away from our island home. With so much still to do on the farm, I left my job as a TV reporter in Cardiff, Wales for four months in order to help. I took a camera and some lenses and decided to make a YouTube series to show what life is really like on the island where I grew up, and was named after.

In episode 7, we encounter a major problem with the petrol pump we use to collect drinking water from the natural spring that flows through the cliff, plus mum shows off her vegetable garden that's taken decades of hard work to cultivate, and then we unpack all the food we need to sustain a life on an island with no shops!

Please share and subscribe for future episodes. I'd love to see your comments on the series so far as it's the first time I've done something like this.

Shot on my Sony A7C (28mm, 3570mm, 70180mm lenses) + iPhone 11
Audio with DJI wireless lavs and Rode Videomic NTG
Drone shot by ​⁠‪@RoryOnAir‬

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