just joined your organisation, mebees by accident, but glad to be amongst like minded people.my wife and i have a wee croft on the nw coast of the Isle of Skye, 3+ acres, now for 20 year. We have large gardens created with the help of pigs, meadows for grazing our wee flock of sheep, one of which had twins the day, deliberately late. Cut and turned the hay by hand today , cut with a finger mower, a lovely sward of grasses, speedwell, buttercup, pignut, plantain and a few nettles.....this is what crofting , to me is all about. Being on the coast, the raised beaches have now become, in the modren parlance re-wilded, a “millenium wood” planted 20 year ago now has a canopy and an undergrowth of bluebells. We take no grants believing it makes you do the wrong things to your land, use seaweed manures, that is ,if we can get to it before the endless plastic comes in from the Minch. Off the grid, with a micro hydro and solar panels we installed ourselves with “wombled “ pipes and cables........thanks for having us.......