Gavin Fiorina

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🌱 Over a decade ago, I embarked on an unforgettable sojourn as a live-intern on an organic farm. After long days in sun-soaked fields and the hum of nature, I sat down each night to write a journal entry about the day's events. Despite the exhaustion, I was fairly consistent at penning my thoughts.

It's wildly entertaining to read about this time in my life ten years on. Revisiting this writing reminds me of where I was, how I thought, and how I became who I am today. As a long held belief that writing things down makes them real - in this case I'm glad that I did.

I invite you to take a glimpse into my past life with the very first entry of my Farm Notes:
https://borninthedirt.blogspot.com/2013/07/farm-one.html

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3 months ago
Appreciate that Jeremy! It's a worthwhile exercise for cottage industry start-ups!
3 months ago
Permies are entrepreneurs at heart. We are constantly innovating, testing, and refining ways to live in harmony with the Earth while building sustainable livelihoods.

That’s why I built the Experience Builder—a tool designed to clarify your business value, the core promise of your product, so you can discover your most engaged customers. Defining what your customer truly wants can be complex, and organizing this knowledge is even trickier. The truth is, the only way to understand what your customer needs is to ask, listen, and refine based on real feedback.

The Experience Builder streamlines this process by helping you collect, organize, and distill your most valuable customer insights. It turns what might feel like a confusing process into a focused outline toward understanding your audience, so you can create a business around what people truly need. Will it be a cobb outbuilding, natural burnished floors for their upscale bathroom, an up-cycled mobile chicken tractor, or a food forest? Only the customer can answer that.

I’m excited to share this tool with all of you in the Permies community first. It’s my hope that the business ideas to come from this tool will be from passionate, earth-conscious, and circular economy-minded individuals like yourselves—people who see the potential to balance profit with planet.

Learn more about the Experience Builder here:
https://dlightning.org/experience-builder.html

Or jump right in:
https://dlightning.io

I’d love to hear your thoughts. Does this tool help you better understand your market? Does the process make sense to you? And what additional resources or tools do you feel would help you plan and execute your business ideas? Your feedback will be invaluable as we continue to improve the Experience Builder and make it even more helpful for purpose-driven entrepreneurs.
3 months ago
Hello!

We are a designer and an engineer who help landowners establish their forest as a reliable, resilient, long-term source of non-toxic food.

How? Positive forest management based on observation and special forest knowledge! We design and implement plantings of native fruit and nut producing species.

Skilled mechanical invasive plant management initiates the change and provides us the opportunity to experience the composition of your woodland. We use managed plants to shape the forest and a new human experience. Our customized planting will increase food production and biodiversity. Your Woods of Plenty will grow and provide for generations.

Head over to our website to learn more about how we work with the forest. Got a question about your woodland? Email us! We encourage you to work with us and experience the transformation first hand.

Jeff and Gavin
http://www.woodsofplenty.com

9 years ago
Hi,
Would really like a permie to fill this position.

Remove invasive plants in Murrysville parks for $10 an hour.
Part time work. You will learn plant identification, make a difference by planting native species, and enjoy the outdoors.

This work takes persistence and human energy. Plants will fight back, thorn bushes, poison ivy, or dirt in the eye are some of the hazards of the job.

Post below for more information.
10 years ago