| It's a squitty little island with bad roads and impoverished crofting townships. |
| The entire agricultural output of crofting could be fitted comfortably into a handful of large east coast farms. |
| On the lower ground, choose a line which leads over crofting machair land to a tractor track back to the village. |
| Those estate owners who could be affected by a community or crofting bid have tended to hold back to see what will happen. |
| However, enthusiasm for crofting is greater than it has been for decades, she added. |
| But for those people crofting wasn't just a way of life, it was life itself. |
