Cromarty Image Library

This farm and many of the others that I have been viewing here today are very large, modern and well groomed operations compared to the old days in the 1830-40s when 18 families with 88 people worked very hard to exist on 20 acres.

What time of the year is shown here - Spring or Fall - as the fields all seem to be neatly ploughed? What kind of crops and animals would be grown and raised on this farm with the picture perfect postcard hills?

Gerald - this would have been taken in the late winter or early spring. Farms around Cromarty tend to be focussed on growing high quality barley - for the malting (whisky) industry, as well as seed potatoes for export. Other farms on slightly higher ground raise beef cattle, and some sheep are over-wintered here, having been in the mountains in the summer time.

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