The practice or occupation of working small rented farms called crofts, typically involving mixed farming of crops and livestock.
From croft + -ing (a suffix forming nouns from verbs). Crofting as an organized practice became dominant in Scotland and northern Britain during the medieval period and continues today.
Crofting is so important to Scottish culture that the UK actually has special laws protecting crofters' rights—it's one of the few farming systems with its own legal framework and heritage status in modern Britain.
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