Crofts & Small Farms
VLOG – Hypothermic Lamb
Do you know what the temperature of a normal healthy lamb is?* Dealing with chilled lambs can be a regular occurrence if you are lambing outside and the weather…
Read More >VLOG – A New Entrant’s Journey
Join us as we follow new entrant crofters Aoife Gould and Jake Sayles through a year on their croft near Edinbane in the north of the Isle of Skye. Find…
Read More >KPI Tool
A KPI tool has been developed that will allow farmers and crofters to input data they have already available to them in order to benchmark their farming enterprises and make…
Read More >Crofters Duties
Both tenant and owner-occupier crofters have duties they must comply with, by law. If crofters fail in these duties, then the Crofting Commission has the power to terminate a tenancy…
Read More >Polyproduce Marketing
The surge in crofters and smallholders interest in growing fruit and vegetables as well as an elevated demand for locally sourced foods by current consumers has meant an identification of…
Read More >Living off the land: expert help to support self-sufficient croft
Listen to our latest podcast interview with Mark Foxwell, a successful crofter based in Sutherland who applied for business development support through FAS to improve his crofting business. Mark and…
Read More >Podcast: The Thrill of The Hill – Common Grazings for Common Good
In this episode Alex Pirie chats to agricultural and crofting consultant, Janette Sutherland (SAC), about a range of topics and issues, including the lessons conventional farms can take from crofting,…
Read More >Podcast: The Thrill of The Hill – Lime & Soil Health
In the eleventh episode of the Thrill of the Hill podcast series, agricultural consultant Alex Pirie talks to Dr Bill Crooks (SAC), about the current state of Scotland’s soils, the…
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