Why I started this business:

I have selfish motives.

I want to to buy food grown without chemicals.

I want to buy clothes made by people earning a reasonable wage in decent working conditions.

I want to buy reclaimed and recycled materials to renovate my home.

I want my money to support people who are doing interesting, unconventional things that they love.

I figure the best way for me to have all that is to use my skills to help the people who are running these businesses.

Other things about me (at random):

My name is Kim Wood.

I trained to be an air traffic controller (trust me – you’re safer without me in that job).

I started and managed a LETSystem.

I’ve been loudly ‘SHOOSHED’  by a guard in Lenin’s tomb, in front of Lenin himself. (That’s Lenin, not Lennon. The one in Red Square, Moscow.)

I was CEO of a not for profit for seven years.

My formative years were the hippie / counterculture and punk years of the seventies – my beliefs largely stem from these times.  Consequently, I’ve long thought of myself as a visitor to the system, not an inhabitant.

Music – lots of it, every day please.  When I was 15 I planned to be the female equivalent of Jimmy Page and played guitar for hours every day. Then I stopped.

Stand out live musical experiences in my life have been The Clash, Bob Marley and Youssou N’Dour.

I’m a lapsed permaculturalist just finding my way back (urban food forest at planning stage).

I live in Australia and plan to be location independent within two years.

I love the world wide connection technology that we have – it reinforces my belief that the world is full of amazing, creative, wild and wonderful people. Now I can connect with lots of them. And that is awesome.