THE fifth Llyndy Isaf scholar has been unveiled at this year’s Royal Welsh Show.

Teleri Fielden, 26, from Meifod, Powys, will join the scholarship scheme run by the National Trust in partnership with Wales YFC this September, taking on the management of Llyndy Isaf, a 614-acre upland farm in Nant Gwynant, for a year.

Teleri said: “I’m really excited by the prospect of managing my own farm for a year, it’s something I’ve always wanted to do.”

Despite having not grown up on a farm, Teleri has always sought out opportunities to gain farming experience. From an early age she helped out on her grandparents’ farm and more recently worked and studied on a mixed research farm in the French Rhone Alps, which included mountain shepherding at 1,000 metres.

Teleri was also short-listed and interviewed for the National Trust’s Parc Farm on the Great Orme.

Teleri added “I’m looking forward to working for the National Trust, getting short-listed for Parc Farm was a great experience and I’m so excited and honoured to get the chance to farm Llyndy. I’m sure the terrain will be challenging, I’ve been busy training my new dog ready for the job.”

Read the full story in Thursday’s north editions of the Cambrian News