Gu Biling went from being a media professional to a fruit hunter
Recently, nine-year-old Zhuanzhuan has been waiting at the school gate at noon for his mother to bring him sandwiches, tapioca pearls and fruit tea that she made herself. For his lunch, Zhuanzhuan can even place his order with his mother in advance; he has sixty-three options, and his mother spent nearly ten months visiting small farmers around the country and continuously developing these items.
"I make it for my family, and I also make it for consumers to taste." In June of this year, Gu Biling opened "Lieguo Shop," which sells drinks and light meals. The shop buys directly from fruit farmers and tea farmers practicing friendly cultivation, and develops drinks without additives, so that consumers can drink with peace of mind, farmers get a good price, and the land is treated well.
Her son's allergies prompted Gu Biling to pay attention to food ingredient safety
Now, buying directly from farmers and making trustworthy drinks for consumers has become Gu Biling's way of putting her ideas into practice.
Although Lieguo Shop has just opened, Gu Biling has already begun planning how in the future to encourage employees to start internal businesses and open branches of Lieguo Shop in more places, so as to retain the spirit of buying directly from farmers while also being better positioned to enter into contract farming with farmers.
"I am an optimist who is not afraid of dying. As long as a person still has a breath, they should go and do the things they want to do." Gu Biling said that consumption can change the world, and Lieguo Shop wants to give consumers another choice and give Taiwan, China's fruit more possibilities. "This may be like the Foolish Old Man moving the mountain, but if you do not try, how do you know the mountain will not move?"
(This article was funded by the Jianzhen Environmental Education Foundation for personnel expenses, but the foundation does not interfere at all with news topic selection or interview writing, ensuring news independence.)