Horticulture

by SCF | Jul 23, 2021 | Social Crofting Toolkits

Social and therapeutic horticulture, food growing and horticultural therapy are aspects of green care that promote social, health and emotional well being in a horticultural setting. Trellis is the network for therapeutic gardening in Scotland.  Their factsheet...

Placements

by SCF | Jul 23, 2021 | Social Crofting Toolkits

Social crofting placements can be offered in a variety of ways to variety of people with wide ranging needs. Social crofting placements can offer support to people with social, mental or physical needs.  Our case studies have found that placements can range from short...

Publication of long-awaited report welcomed by Crofting Federation

by SCF | Jul 1, 2021 | News Archive

The Scottish Crofting Federation (SCF) has congratulated the Scottish Government for its good sense in publishing the long-awaited report on the deliberations of the Farming and Food Production Future Policy Group, “Recommendations to Government”. The 16-strong...

SCF Members Forum

by SCF | Jun 3, 2021 | News Archive

The members forum on the SCF website has been the subject of hacking attempts in recent weeks. The forum is managed by volunteers and this has proven very time-consuming for them. A decision has been made to remove the forum from the SCF website and instead use the...

Confirmation of unused crofts problem – and solution – says Federation

by SCF | May 26, 2021 | News Archive

The Scottish Crofting Federation (SCF) has welcomed the results of the Crofting Commission investigation into unused crofts and reiterates the call to resource the Commission sufficiently for it to tackle the emergency. “This is a necessary survey undertaken to...