Hanne Bat Finke, from the Danish Centre for Rural Research at the University of Southern Denmark, gave a seminar to the University of Lincoln Rural Research Group as part of her visit this week. Reporting the findings from her PhD, she gave a number of examples of new rural enterprises on the Danish island of Funen which used and enhanced local landscapes in a number of ways. As rural places continue to change, this offers welcome optimism for the future of rural economies based around small-scale entrepreneurship and innovative enterprises.