Crofts & Small Farms
Common Grazings Development – A Common Approach to Drive Change
Following the successful Farm Advisory Service / Crofting Commission development meetings held across the Isle of Lewis in October, we ran a practical development day for Common Grazings in January…
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Women in Agriculture, Inverness-shire: Social Media Presence
Social Media Presence – How to tell a positive farming story In today’s digital world we can use social media to tell our own story, engage in debate and win…
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Women in Agriculture, Balivanich – Personal Resilience for Business Success
Agriculture, like many industries, is facing a number of challenges at present. How you react to these challenges will determine the success of your business. Could what you believe about…
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Breacan-Beithe croft – feeding the local community (podcast)
Listen to our latest podcast interview with new crofter, Catherine Mitchell, owner of Breacan-Beithe Croft. In this podcast, Catherine recalls how she got started in crofting and the help she…
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Crofting delivers important social, economic and biodiversity value say Highland and Islands’ SAC Consultants
Scotland’s crofting community has spoken out about the social, economic and biodiversity value of small-scale, and almost invariably part-time, way of life to Scotland’s Highlands and Islands. Crofts can range…
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Crofting & the Uist Machair (video)
Cultivations will be underway soon on the Uist machair, growing crops and managing the land for high biodiversity. This lovely video explains how and why traditional crops are grown in…
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Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill – Muirburn
You may have seen recent reports of the banning of muirburn as part of the recent cornoavirus bill which has now passed through the Scottish Parliament (Burning moorlands banned in…
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Animal Health Planning for Crofters (advertorial)
In the Scottish Farmer published, 21st March 2020, we published the advertorial below to promote advice to crofters around animal health planning. Animal Health Planning (advertorial)
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Women in Agriculture: Case Study – Dawn Destor-Mackinnon
Find out how Dawn built up her contract shepherding business here
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