The Team

Joanne Williams
Brought up in Yorkshire, Joanne moved to Central Scotland in 2001. In 2005 Joanne went to Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh to study Nutrition. After graduating she spent a number of years working as a Nutritionist before moving on to work for a local small artisan food producer as a project assistant. After a move to Shetland in 2017 she carried on working with food producers in Shetland and sharing their love for the local food movement.

Mary Andreas
Mary worked within the Downstream Oil Industry in London for 25 years in various accounting roles before returning to her native Shetland in 2006.
A mother of two children, two step children and two grand children (with another on the way), she has run her 4* Bed and Breakfast in Bigton whilst working from home as an Operations Manager for a Lancashire based company providing Merchant Services to Petrol Stations across the UK. She has also been Chair of the Bigton Hall Committee since 2008

Marian Armitage
Marian Armitage is a native Shetlander who was educated at the Anderson High School then trained as a teacher of Domestic Science in Edinburgh in the early 70s. She taught Food and Nutrition in state secondary schools initially in Norwich then in Inner London, for almost 35 years.
In 2014 she wrote Shetland Food and Cooking published by The Shetland Times. Her book won the top prize in the Food Promotion category at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards held in Yantai, China in 2016.
In the following year, Marian became Chair of Shetland Food and Drink - the organisation she set up with Jill Franklin. Initial funding from Shetland LEADER, Shetland Islands Council and Highland and Islands Enterprise facilitated the launch of Shetland Food and Drink and Taste of Shetland in November 2017
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