Kenny MacKay gathers sheep at Northton, on the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides. The area was the site of prehistoric settlements dating back to the Mesolithic era, which began about 8000 B.C.

Jessie MacLeod and her husband, Bannatyne (not shown), are crofters at Cluer, on the Isle of Harris, where they raise sheep. Crofters scrape out a living on small tenant farms on the rocky edges of Scotland.

Farmer Derrick Campbell rounded up friends from the Isle of Harris, who then helped him round up his cattle on the nearby island of Ensay, where they’d been grazing for the summer. He and others depend on community help for such activities as loading the cattle on a barge for the trip back to Harris—and eventually on to market. (Composite of two images)

Hauling cattle on and off of islands such as Ensay is a regular feature of farm life on the margins of Scotland’s moors, where good grazing land is scarce. Derrick Campbell gets the summer grazing on Ensay for free so figures it’s worth all the hard work.