Alison Hastie Editor & Author

Alison Hastie is a shoemaker who co-founded Green Shoes, a women’s collective shoemaking business, in Totnes, Devon, in 1981. This unique enterprise attracted national attention and a following of dedicated customers, interested in the ethos of the group and the comfortable, long-lasting and repairable shoes that they made by hand. For nearly fifty years Alison has lived on Dartmoor, where she raised her family and was involved in radical community activities, including The Dart magazine and the multigenerational MED Theatre.