The wild bunch: Britain's eco entrepreneurs

Fields, woods and beaches are a rich source of income for the growing number of businesses turning a living from nature's harvest. Sanjida O Connell meets Britain's eco entrepreneurs
Published: 10 May 2007

This year, I made my best sloe gin. It wasn't just that 2006 was unseasonally warm and the hedgerows were laden with blossom, so consequently the blackthorn were bowed down with the weight of their glaucous blue-black fruit by early autumn. It was more that when I got home I discovered I had no gin. continue...