Crofting for the Future In-person Training Course - Griminish; Friday 14th and Saturday 15th March 2025
Fri 14 Mar 2025 9:30 AM - Sat 15 Mar 2025 5:00 PM GMT
St Mary's Church Hall, Griminish, HS7 5QA
Description
This course is suitable for both new entrant AND experienced crofters.
Have you been asking yourself:-
- How can I prepare for changes in agricultural policy?
- How can I make my croft more sustainable:- economically & environmentally?
- How do I adapt to changing weather patterns?
- What resources are available to support me?
Answers to these and other questions in our intensive, in-person, interactive two day training course.
St Mary's Church Hall, Griminish; Friday 14th & Saturday 15th March 2025.
Members:- £50; Non-members:- £80
This includes morning & afternoon refreshments and lunch.
The course will be co-designed with participants choosing modules from the following categories:
(i) Land Management; (ii) Animal Management; (iii) Horticulture/Silviculture/Agro-forestry; (iv) Economic Sustainability.
For more information on the course content, please click here.
Once you sign up for the course, you will have the option of completing a survey to indicate your preferences for the topics delivered.
We can not guarantee that you will get all your preferences, depending on who else signs up, but we will do our best.
NB. If cost is a barrier to you attending this course, please contact us.
Please direct any enquiries to celia@crofting.org
We are delivering this course in other locations throughout the crofting counties between now and the end of March 2025.
Other venues/dates are:- Applecross Community Hall, (31st January & 1st February); An Crùbh, Isle of Skye (14th/15th February); Carloway Community Centre (22nd/23rd February); Isle of Mull (28th February & 1st March) Venue TBC; Ollaberry Hall, Shetland (March 7th/8th) and St Mary's Church Hall, Griminish, Benbecula (March 14th/15th).
This workshop is 75% subsidised through the SRDP Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Fund (KTIF), funded by Scottish Government.
Location
St Mary's Church Hall, Griminish, HS7 5QA