Crofting Matters Podcast

Listen in to Shetland Straw Society members, Eve Eunson and Ewen Balfour on the new Farm Advisory Service podcast, Crofting Matters. This podcast covers a broad range of topics and offers bespoke advice for crofters. Check the link below to hear more about the formation of the society, straw crafts and growing aets. Hosted by Osla Jamwal Fraser who is another of our committee members.

Eve was born and raised on her family’s Croft in Fair Isle and is now a designer and maker of Fair Isle Straw-backed chairs. Ewen Balfour is a crofter, quantity surveyor and a master craftsman in Shetland basket making. In the episode they explain the work they and Shetland Straw Society are doing to preserve Shetland’s endangered straw crafts and one of our ancient landraces – Shetland black oats – referred to locally as ‘aets’.

Find the link to the podcast here.