HORTICULTURE, DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY: Sheena is on a mission to spice up Scottish taste buds by growing and selling chillies from her home near Wigtown in South West Scotland. She has also branched out into growing hardy herbs, including over 35 varieties of mint.

Most years she plants around 20 chilli varieties, including fiery Dorset Naga, citrusy Lemon Drop, Habanero, Jalapeno and those fabulous Padrons that surely everyone has enjoyed in any Tapas restaurant. These chillies are sold to other businesses across Scotland but mainly in her home region. Due to her experience in this field she is now the 'chilli master' with Killer Sauce (a relatively new chilli business). She also makes sure she keeps back a few Lemon Drops – one of her favourite chillies - to slice into a gin and tonic after a long day in the glasshouses.

Sheena is determined to make her business sustainable, so has reduced her plastic poly tunnels down to one, against eight glasshouses, all of which are upcycled. Her peat-free compost is made from bracken and wool, chemicals are kept to a minimum, and any plants sold are in biodegradable coir pots.

Sheena is a farmer’s daughter and grew up on a beef and game-rearing farm just across the river from her current home. The farm wasn’t big enough to support both Sheena and her dad, so she left home at 17 to go to college and went on to work for the Scottish Department of Agriculture and Harrison and Hetherington, the UK's largest livestock trading company. She was seconded to the government’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs during the Foot and Mouth crisis and later became a wildlife adviser with Natural England.

Sheena took voluntary redundancy from Natural England in order to return home to Dumfries and Galloway and fully commit to her business. Galloway Chillies is part of her business, a consultancy called Food from Farming which seeks to bridge the gap between production and consumption.