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<META NAME="description" CONTENT="This website is intended to be an information resource of crofting smallholding and anything related to highland and Island life of Scotland or further afield.Its presented in a simple style so anyone with the simplest of internet skills  can find what they are looking for(we hope).Enjoy browsing,we will be updating the site as we go so hope on each visit you will find more to interest you and maybe hang around in the forum and make friends too.   

The forum is:- 

"A self help group for sharing all your stressful experiences of your self inflicted lifestyle.Swop advice, trade, barter,heckle,make friends(but not enemies)generally talk rubbish or while away hours of valuable time when you really should be getting on with something useful.We hope you enjoy coming here and making a few friends " 

self inflicted life-style is a lighthearted reference to the hard life we subject ourselves to in fulfilling our dreams to live differently to the majority of people, by 'Living off the land' (or at least attempting to!!!) raising Livestock and Poultry,growing vegetables and making our lives generally more wholesome- well-- more interesting anyway!! 
With this choice of lifestyle often comes hardship and frustration, hours of toil and often little money but on the whole we accept that we just would not live any other way. 

Crofting has traditionally been the way to live this 'lifestyle' -more a necessity than a choice in the Scottish highlands and Islands- never a lucrative way of life more a reasonable assurance of survival into the next year! 
Modern living has brought changes to the way people live but the crofting way of life is still extremely important to those that live in the more inhospitable regions of Scotland. 
In other areas of the British Isles smallholdings, market gardening and hobby farming has brought the the same fortunes or misfortune however you look at it. 
Many family farms are being squeezed out of existence in the commercial farming of today and that means many will be forced into the same category as the crofters, smallholders and hobby farmers. 

what unites us though is a common bond to feel responsible for ourselves to grow produce we can be proud of (sometimes!) and our sense of humour,because lets face it if you dont have one you wont survive very long. 
We hope that you will come here often and share with us all your trials and many tribulations and try as we do not to take life too seriously. 
Dont forget to add this forum to your favourites so that you can come back or we will be sitting here waiting a very long time indeed! 

we look forward to meeting you very soon ">
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