Become a Gbiota supplier

Limitations in our current food system

The modern chemical industrial food system is highly productive producing large quantities of standardised energy food at economic prices.

But the food is inert lacking the essential microbes to feed our gut brain so our control system, which regulates our bodies, does not work as it should.

The Gbiota aim is not to replace the existing food system but to supplement by growing gut brain food to feed out gut brain – our control system.

It is just a fact of life that there are beneficial microbes that power our gut brain but there are also harmful microbes that make us sick or even kill us.

Chemicals can kill microbes but they kill both good and bad microbes.

Key features of the Gbiota technology – ecological balance

A key feature of the Gbiota technology is to create the conditions – moisture, air, and nutrients – so the beneficial microbes simply out breed the harmful microbes, a process of Ecological balance.

It is again a fact of life that microbes breed incredibly fast but they also die at an equally fast rate.

Microbes, even in plants grown under the best possible conditions, but harvested and sold conventionally, will have died well before they are consumed – even though the plants still look perfectly healthy.

There is a fundamental difference between living and not gone rotten.

Provide living plants in Gbiota boxes rather than harvested plants

A further key feature of the Gbiota system is that plants can be grown at home in Gbiota boxes full of living soil so they can be harvested and eaten straight away – pick and eat.

There are home growers who can manage the whole process of making boxes, breeding the beneficial microbes in organic waste to create living soil, and finally growing and harvesting the plants but this only represents a small proportion of the population and everybody has a gut-brain that needs feeding.

To make the full benefits of the technology available to as many people as possible we need Gbiota suppliers to become an essential part of the food supply chain.

Gbiota services

A Gbiota supplier can provide a range of services from simply making the Gbiota boxes to a complete service of making the boxes, right through to delivering and swapping boxes with a selection of growing plants so their customer has an ongoing supply of fresh boxes.

Gbiota suppliers are independent businesses and it is up to them what services they decide to offer but we certainly encourage Gbiota suppliers to offer a full spectrum of services.

This is creating a new element of local specialist growers in the food supply chain.

Becoming a Gbiota supplier

Creating Gbiota soil is a critical part of the Gbiota process. Under natural conditions, it can take centuries to create soil. In the Gbiota process, the time is reduced to months rather than years.

Dirt into soil

It is turning dirt into soil.

It may start with clay, which is a pretty horrible material unless you are into making pots.

When it is dry it is hard like concrete and when it becomes wet it turns into a yukky glue which defies management.

But the Gbiota process can turn clay, or other soil into a beautiful growing medium with a good porous structure full of beneficial microbes, and bio-available nutrients.

This is done using a variety of techniques.

Organic waste is added which provides food for the microbes.

Both microbes and humans need minerals so rock dust is added. Rock dust is insoluble and not readily available but the microbes, particularly the fungi will break the minerals down and make them bio-available.

But microbes don’t just live in the soil, they also live in the guts of larger creatures, like worms, beetles and soldier flies. These larger creatures play a significant role in turning dirt into soil.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, is the role of plants in turning dirt into soil.

This needs energy and the plants provide this from photosynthesis capturing the energy of the sun which is contained in both the plant material itself but also in the sugars that plants exude from their roots to feed selected species of microbes.

Turning dirt into soil means the management of a complex ecosystem.

We know how to do this, that is what the Gbiota technology is all about, but it is far from trivial and is best done in raised beds with careful management of the nutrients, air, and water to create the beneficial Eco-system.

Humans and Jelly fish

Most people can tell the difference between a jellyfish and a fellow human being (I would worry about their sex life if they can’t). A jellyfish is like a bag full of squishy stuff while a human body is rigid with a structure.

But they are not really that different. We have a heart which is pumping blood all around our bodies.

It takes up oxygen from our lungs and distributes it over our entire body. It takes up nutrients from our gut and distributes this to muscles all over our body.

It picks up hormones from various organs and distributes these to our brains, making us feel tired or hungry or whatever.

It is distributing the components of our immune system around our bodies ready to deal with unwelcome guests.

It is learning from all these activities what seems to work like some giant artificial intelligence machine continuously self-learning and adapting.

Like the Jellyfish, it does this by transporting squishy stuff around our bodies.

Soil blood

This is analogous to what is happening in the soil. Soil is hard and solid and nutrients are simply not available directly to the plants.

But the soil is full of fluid, water containing a load of dissolved chemicals, microbes, and other living creatures.

This is doing a similar job to our blood so I call it soil blood and is central to how Gbiota beds work.

We flood and drain the boxes so the soil is breathing, we are allowing the organic material to decompose and form part of the soil blood (compost tea) which we circulate through the boxes from top to bottom.

Maybe not as sixty times a minute like our heart but certainly several times a week.

This concept of soil blood is fundamental to the Gbiota technology and the way Gbiota beds and boxes work.

It all may sound high tech but in reality, it means collecting soil blood in a milk bottle from a swivel tube and flooding the top of the box.

Technology transfer

All this is described in the many posts on the web and certainly, we can coach any Gbiota supplier through the many posts.

But a consumer, who probably just wants to avoid having their leg chopped off from diabetes probably will not want to go through this learning process but would be delighted to have a local Gbiota supplier demonstrate how to properly care for their Gbiota boxes.

Gbiota suppliers can play a critical role in this important function of technology transfer.

Two groups in a win win coupling

All this is the daily life for regenerative farmers. They have decided to step aside from conventional chemical industrial agriculture and focus on regenerating their soils so they have a viable and sustainable farm into the future.

They certainly don’t so this for short term financial gains, they do it because it is the right thing to do for the future of humanity.

But their skills and knowledge in understanding soil and the trillions of creatures which inhabit the soil are of immense value to the second group.

These are the people whose gut brain is not working as it should simply because they are not feeding their gut brain with the food which will provide them with an effective control system.

They certainly would want to live a long and health life but they may well have short term pressure like having their leg chopped off from diabetes (which globally happens every eight seconds).

They would be more than happy to reward the skills of the regenerative farmer in providing gut brain food.

This is a win for the thousands of regenerative farmers and the many millions of people (actually eight billion) who need a healthy gut brain.

How to make it happen?

If you are a regenerative farmer simply join the Gbiota social movement by registering as a local grower. If you just want to find out more tick the box expression of interest (just looking) and also click on the notify me of new posts at the bottom of any post.

We write a new post most weeks so you can sit back and watch if this if for you or not.

If this is for you then when you are ready edit you account to ‘ready to go’.

If you want to buy Gbiota boxes then register as a consumer and again tick the box notify me of new posts and again if you just want to look and see then tick the box expression of interest.

Again if this is for you then when you are ready edit you account to ‘ready to go’.

Then the process of linking growers and consumers starts using our social media site Gbiota.club and our shop site pickandeat.shop aided by geolocation so you can find a grower or consumer near you.

This is a direct relationship between growers and consumers so it is up to you both to decide how you can best work together.

We just aim to get you to say hello.