After spending many years in academic research, Marian founded Highland Boundary, Scotland’s first botanical spirits distillery in 2016, where she is director and master distiller. Award- winning Highland Boundary spirits are produced on her small, re-wilded family farm at Kirklandbank in Alyth, Perthshire where she also manages livestock, holiday rental and sculpture businesses. She is also Enterprise Manager for Affric Highlands and a member of the Scottish Nature Finance Pioneers Group. As a biologist specialising in biodiversity, Marian’s understanding of the need to work with nature rather than against it is fundamental to her way of thinking.

Clare is an independent creative producer, working across the fields of culture, nature restoration and tourism. She is co-founder and co-director of Tayside’s new ‘museum without walls’, the Cateran Ecomuseum and with her sister, operates two micro-businesses in tourism, Vanora’s Cottages and Alyth Craft Tourism. Previously a member of Alyth Community Council and a founding Director of the Alyth Development Trust, she also served on the Local Action Group of the Rural Perth & Kinross LEADER programme from 2014-2021. She is a member of the Scottish Nature Finance Pioneers Group and co-leads The Alyth River-Keepers.

Kevin Frediani is Curator of the Botanic Garden and Head of Grounds at the University of Dundee, leading a team that conserves, educates, facilitates research and delivers a sustainable green infrastructure across the University. His research interests explore how spaces become places imbued with emotion through the actions and reactions of people and environment. Kevin’s previous experience is in the management of complex projects in novel rural landscapes and non-rural places while delivering innovative solutions for the development of heritage landscapes, Botanic Gardens, Zoos and productive landscapes (including Urban Agriculture). Part of the core project team for Urban ReLeaf European Citizen Observatory, he is also a Circular Tayside Ambassador.