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The landscape around Helen O’Keefe’s Sutherland croft spans ancient woodlands, glassy lochs, rolling hills, wetlands, moors and vast areas of grasslands. Beneath her feet grow rare wildflowers like yellow saxifrage, in the sky overhead soar golden and sea eagles. Majestic Suilven looms over Elphin where she farms her five hectares, cares for her sheep and chickens, and tends to her market garden crops. Covered with a layer of snow in winter, or blooming with wildflowers in spring, it could scarcely be less like Western Australia’s sun-baked Kalgoorlie desert, scared by one of the ...

Helen O'Keefe HELEN O’Keefe, from Elphin, Sutherland, has been chosen as the Scottish Crofting Federation's Young Crofter of the Year. Chair of the SCF, Donald MacKinnon, said: “We got an extremely high calibre of entrants for this round of the SCF Young Crofter Award, which is generously supported by The MacRobert Trust. It is an inspiration to see young folk doing such a very wide variety of activities on their crofts and they all fully deserve to be recognised for their efforts and enterprises. "The judges, representatives of SCF, The MacRobert Trust and the Crofting Commission, ...

by Gemma Mackenzie Helen O'Keefe said she was "delighted" to win the award. Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Sutherland shepherdess Helen O’Keefe has been named Young Crofter of the Year by the Scottish Crofting Federation (SCF). Ms O’Keefe runs a 100-ewe flock of Shetlands alongside running the Elphin Tea Rooms, where she sells produce from her croft, and serving as the grazings clerk for her local township...

Ex-Aussie mining engineer and Elphin Tearooms operator is named as Young Crofter of the Year By Caroline McMorran  |  Updated: 11:54, 27 January 2021 Get the Northern Times sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper An Australian former mining engineer now living in Elphin has been named as the Scottish Crofting Federation's Young Crofter of the Year. Helen O'Keefe emigrated in 2015 after falling in love with the north west Highlands while on holiday in Scotland in 2012 and 2014. Award winner Helen O'Keefe has established a flock of nearly 100 ...

LENA is set to be a star of Christmas telly TEN-YEAR-OLD Lena from the Isle of Harris in the Western Isles knows exactly what she wants for her future – to work with her beloved sheep, learn from her father and older crofters, and continue the traditional way of life that she has been brought up with. Now she is to be the focus of a television programme – 'Lena – An Croitear Òg (Lena – the Young Crofter)' – produced by Stornoway-based independent MacTV, is their first film in a scheme overseen by the European Broadcasting Union. Each year, the EBU supports the production of sho...