Croitear Òg aims to give young people experience & help them gain skills in traditional crofting & rural activities. The project is based in Barra and funded by Young Start.

 

The project focuses on introducing young people to activities that are related to crofting in an island environment with emphasis on plants & crops, animal husbandry, fishing, food, craft, wildlife & enterprise.

 

Our project is aged related, the Junior Group being Primary school children the Senior group being Secondary +.

 

The Junior group follow a general agricultural/horticultural programme.

 

The Senior Group are peer led & have total control over the activities they choose. Currently they are working on making creels with a view to fishing them & selling the produce, and are also making Black Pudding for sale locally.

 

We aim to further develop the project with a Skiff Building programme primarily aimed at the young people on the island currently not engaged in any form of education or training.

 

The expertise for these skills are based on the island from the older generation who volunteer as they see that there is the opportunity to keep local traditional skills that are important for the management of the land and fisheries alive.