More than a millennium ago, Norse settlers brought native sheep to Faroe and Iceland, and their wool and meat has become part of a long tradition. The sheep are proving to be as valuable today, with new markets being opened for meat and a revival in patterned sweaters and other wool products.

Dorthea Joensen works for the Faroese Agricultural Agency which collects the wool, and also works on her own family farm.

Jens Ivan í Gerðinum is an agricultural researcher, with degrees from Aberdeen and Copenhagen, and a farmer and sheep breeder and a judge in the national tup ring.

Hafliði Halldórsson is a master chef and managing director of the Icelandic Lamb cooperative, which recently took part in a project which highlighted the nutritional levels in the meat.

“They seek the highest mountains and the steepest cliffs. If you think about fully utilizing the natural resources in as sustainable a manner as possible, they fit quite perfectly.”
– Jens Ivan í Gerðinum in Land of the Faroes’

Organised by the North Ronaldsay Trust and supported by the OIC Nordic Atlantic Fund