Ex-Aussie mining engineer and Elphin Tearooms operator is named as Young Crofter of the Year
By Caroline McMorran
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Updated: 11:54, 27 January 2021
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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 Shetland sheep. A portion of the flock are crossed with a Beltex ram.