Rural Business

Adding Value / Maximising Opportunities: Smaller Lambs

This video looks at how a crofter or smallholder can add value to their smaller lambs. Greg Hooker owns and runs Puldagon farm shop and restaurant where he uses some…

Compost and Growing Media

Do you have a horticultural enterprise on your croft or smallholding? Do you buy or make compost or growing media? Do you get variable results?! In this webinar, Audrey Litterick…

A New Start to Agriculture: Tips on Record Keeping

In a new video in our series looking at advice and guidance for people who want to make a new start with agriculture, Agricultural Consultant Hazel Laughton takes you through…

Horticultural Question Time

Horticultural Question Time – in this podcast we posed the questions asked by you the FAS listeners to horticultural expert Audrey Litterick. Lots of topics were covered from the difference…

Sheep Feed Trough: Alternative Designs

A cheap, cost effective, alternative design for a sheep feed trough using waste items on the croft that can help provide tools to manage stock without breaking the bank. Related…

Weed Management: Cost Effective Options

This video explores the more cost effective options to applying weed management chemicals to the croft or small holding and explains the benefits of each method whilst demonstrating them in…

Electric Fencing: A Practical Guide

A practical demonstrative video that covers the fundamental use of electric fencing in a crofting agriculture setup and discusses the benefits or such a system as a cost effective and…

Providing Creep Feed to Lambs

This video looks at a makeshift, low budget, adaptable means at providing creep feed to lambs using items available on the croft. The benefit of the system demonstrate what can…

Lamb Weighing: An Alternative Method

In small scale agriculture where expensive equipment isn’t viable or available, the use of unconventional methods can still be applied to achieve the same goal when on a budget. In…

Poultry Housing: Cheaper Alternatives

This video explores cheaper alternative items that can be used to house poultry where space, cost, and adaptability are required for a croft or small farm setting. Related FAS Materials…

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