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Brae is the main settlement of the north Mainland parish of Delting, sitting at the head of Sullom Voe on the isthmus of Mavis Grind where the Mainland narrows to barely a hundred metres between the Atlantic and the North Sea. The village grew significantly with the development of Sullom Voe Oil Terminal to the north — Europe's largest oil terminal — bringing a more varied population to this historically remote area. The Busta House Hotel, a seventeenth-century laird's house with a sheltered walled garden, is a notable landmark north of the village. The landscape around Brae is a patchwork of sheltered voe sides, improved pasture and extensive heather moorland; the long fingers of Sullom Voe and its surrounding waters provide a distinctive maritime framing for the agricultural land.

Heather is the dominant forage plant of Shetland, covering the vast majority of the island landscape with bell heather and ling running from mid-July through September; the heather honey of Shetland has a distinctive strong character from the pure moorland sources. White clover on improved croft land in the valley bottoms and the more fertile western Mainland parishes provides the main June-to-July summer flow. Gorse — whin — is exceptionally abundant throughout Shetland from March into June, flowering earlier than most mainland sites thanks to the Gulf Stream influence, and providing critical early pollen and nectar for spring colony build-up. Sycamore in the sheltered town gardens and policies of Lerwick and Scalloway gives a productive May flow where trees are established. Bramble on disturbed ground and croft edges from July to August. Dandelion on roadsides and improved grassland in April and May provides early pollen. Ivy on older stone buildings in the more sheltered settings around Lerwick closes the season into October on mild years.