Outer Hebrides: New series highlights challenges facing crofters
Crofting in the Outer Hebrides, it turns out, is far from the peaceful image of rural life that some may think.
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Crofting in the Outer Hebrides, it turns out, is far from the peaceful image of rural life that some may think.
Struan Macdonald, a young crofter from Assynt, has won the Scottish Crofting Federation’s prestigious Young Crofter Award.
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A young crofter from Assynt has been awarded the coveted Young Crofter Award by the Scottish Crofting Federation.
Country Life Trending: June 5, 2021 The Cuillin mountain range with croft farm, sheep and Loch Harport near Coillure on Isle of Skye. Credit: Tim Graham/Getty Images Remote working has a whole other meaning for those passionate individuals still farming crofts in the Highlands. Joe Gibbs takes a look and discovers crofting to be alive and well — though still as tough a life as it ever was. The tiny west Highland township of Elphin, north of Ullapool, stands out from the moorland landscape as a patchwork of bright green. Its rare fertility derives from a seam of limestone ben...