ORFC 2026 8 – 9 Jan
Crofting holds great potential to increase access to land at a time of overheating land markets. Historically, crofting was introduced to keep families on the land from which they had previously been cleared. These days, more than ever, we need people taking stewardship over the land collaboratively, in ways mutually beneficial for human communities and nature. Creating new crofts can facilitate exactly this. In principle, nothing prevents us from establishing thousands of new crofts across Scotland. The panel builds on previous ORFC events on crofting and explores the possibilities as well as the political and legal stumbling blocks along the way.