Meet the Crew...

Meet The Crofts

Joseph and Lorie Croft, Owners of The Celtic Croft

Joseph got his start 16 years ago selling bagpipes as The Shetland Piper. Now we sell bagpipes, kilts, accessories, Scottish, Irish and Welsh clothing, gifts, and lots of other stuff. Eight years ago Lorie married Joseph and joined the business. Joseph quit his job, and together  they run the business full-time. January 2004 they changed the business name to The Celtic Croft. Kaurina, our daughter joined us full time in 2007 after graduation and her husband Luke joined us full time in 2008 after their wedding. We also have Nathan, Denise, and Steve, our all around office guy, who runs the office when we are traveling to Highland Games and Irish Fairs throughout the summer.

We travel many weekends throughout the summer each year attending Highland Games and Irish fairs around the country (sometimes with the seven children), but primarily our business is based in mail-order sales from the catalog and website. We currently have a showroom and warehouse at our home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, and welcome visitors by appointment. Be warned though, we have 7 children 4 cats, and 5 dogs (2 ours, 2 Kaurina's, 1 Nathan's). If you are allergic to cats or kids, please let us know, and we will arrange an alternate meeting place. We have decided to wait until the childresn are all grown before opening a retail store. We have discovered that thirteen year olds need as much, if not more, supervision as they did when they were three.

Meet the Family

This is a family picture taken the summer of 2006, on a family vacation after the Wyoming Highland Games.

This is a family picture taken the summer of 2004, in the South Dakota Badlands on our way to the Wyoming Highland Games.