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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 continent’s largest open-cut gold mines, pancake flat and where, until a few years ago was her home.
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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, certainly found what they were looking for – inspiration, enterprise, commitment and community involvement, in abundance. From the wide range of nominations, all very worthy ambassadors for crofting, we narrowed it down to a shortlist – Adam Veitch from Banavie, Cheryl McIntyre from Skye and Helen O’Keefe from Elphin. But of course there can only be one winner and Helen seems to be some
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