Community Owned. Working Together: Cha sheas coimhearsnachd air a lèth-chois.
The Estate are pleased to announce the launch of two new annual awards that are open to crofters and households on Keose Glebe.
These are for ‘best village croft’ and ‘best village garden’, and the winners will be announced at the fun day in August.
The winners will be chosen by independent referees to ensure that no bias or favouritism is shown, so while some in the village are maybe showing an early advantage, there are almost three months available to see what can be achieved!
Good luck!
Ian Cairns has carried out a survey and assessment of the estate land, to help us develop an estate/grazings management and development plan.
Ian is formerly of the Scottish Agricultural College here in Stornoway, and now works with Agrifood Technical Services Ltd while running his own farm in Northumberland.
He has looked at the common grazings here, village parks and crofts, to assess their current condition. The Management Plan will help us get the best out of the estate land, to the benefit of both crofters and the estate, and it will also guide us as to how improvements can be planned, delivered and funded.
Hopefully with this information, we will be able to address issues such as drainage, rush and heather control, equipment, stock management, infrastructure and other issues that impact on crofting and land management in this area.
The findings of the study will be shared in a future consultation exercise, and will be the groundwork for the development of a sheep stock club, should that be taken forward.
Members results were:
27 (90%) for and 3 (10%) against – 30 votes in total
Crofters results were:
8 (89%) for, and 1 (11%) against – 9 votes in total
In addition, 4 current non-member residents voted (3 for and 1 against).
The Directors noted both the overall support from members and crofters for these proposals. They also noted the concerns raised, and agreed to seek ways that these could be minimised or mitigated.
Continue reading “Clay Pigeon Shooting Ground Consultation”
Community Consultation packs 3 and 4 have now gone out to Keose Glebe members and crofters for consideration.
Please get in touch if you have not received a copy.
Responses are requested by the 7th of February, and we would appreciate as many comments as possible.
The Muaitheabhal Trust are organising a Safe Use of Pesticide course (PA1) and associated supporting courses in using Hand Held Applicator (PA2) and Ground Crop Sprayer (PA6) and a Sheep Shearing course.
We are keen to assist anyone who wants to take part in these courses in any way we can, and to hopefully get some Keose Glebe people onto the courses ourselves.
The Muaitheabhal information is as follows:
Continue reading “‘Safe Use of Pesticide’ and Sheep Sheering Training”
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