Unless you are a total hermit you can’t have missed that the world is in a bit of a mess - Covid, bush fires, floods droughts and food shortages.

When the price of an iceberg lettuce rises from $2 to $13 then you have to notice. OK the price has now dropped down to $7 so everything is going to be OK - no that is just because they are shipping them in from miles away. Things are bad and are going to get worse.

I thought I would Google to see how much carbon dioxide was emitted in the recent bush fires - 700 million tons - compared that with a total emission from Australia of 500 million tons. My going to the shops on my bike rather than driving my car is not going to have much impact on that - however good it may make me feel that I am making a contribution.

So what can I do that will have an impact, particularly to the food crisis and the wobbly food chain?

Here is my plan and I hope that you will join me.

Some twenty five years ago I started to promote Wicking Beds, not my invention - anyone who has seen a desert oasis will realise that nature invented them first - like many things we think are a technical breakthrough. I just copied nature.

They went viral and now there must be many thousand of people with a Wicking Bed in their back yard happily growing a few vegetables. But there are billions of people who don’t have a back yard, time, skills or even the interest in growing some of their own food.

Before I start on my plan can I just say that food waste contributes 10% of global greenhouse gases and is a criminal waste of nutrients.

So here is my plan, I try and persuade these home gardeners to become community growers. They make two Wicking Boxes, except I now call them Bioboxes because I use them to breed microbes for our gut health - but that is another story.

One is empty the other full of growing plants ready to harvest. The customer (I call them biofoodies from my interest in gut health) loads all their kitchen waste into the empty box, (provide with a lid to avoid pongs). On a regular basis these are swapped for fresh boxes - one empty the other full of fresh food plants.

The community grower now adds minerals and inoculants to the food waste and breeds up beneficial biota in Gbiota beds to make nutrient rich soil which are used to grow really healthy food in Bioboxes for the Biofoodies happily living away in their apartments or wherever.

They don’t have to worry about anything other than a weekly watering.

I have tested the technology, it works fine I just need the cooperation of community growers.

If you feel you may like to participate in this project can you can either email me and we can work though any issues you may have or just go straight to www.gbiota.com read a bit more about the project then hopefully register as a community grower.

You would not only be contributing to the community but you can earn money in the process.

If you just want to be a Biofoodie customer I would like to hear from you too. Customers matter

I want to meet you

If you live in cloud cuckoo land you may believe that there will be a continuous supply of healthy food way into the future. Dream on.

But if you live in the real world you will see we are on a high speed train heading straight for a cliff and that cliff is a major food crisis where the supermarkets are full of food loaded with sugars, fats and carbs which will make us fat and sick.

But no real food.

If you are like most people you will think that the magic 'they' will fix it. They being the Governments, some mega corporation or some techno brain breeding meat in a test tube.

But out there - somewhere - is one person - a combination of paradigm buster and entrepreneur with a bit of spirit who sees that we can have a real food system that will make us healthier and cost less by learning from evolution - and that is the Gbiota system. That person will be prepared to take action to make that happen.

Unlike most people they have a longer attention span than a few seconds and will start by reading about the Anthropocene here.

I would really like to make contact with that person - please email me at colin@gbiota.com

This is a Gbiota Biobox.

The soil is full of beneficial microbes living and breeding in the organic matter in the soil.

These microbes enter the plant which we eat to form our Gut biota, our gut brain, which acts as the intelligent control system for our bodies. It decides if we have have eaten enough of the right sort of food and tell us when to stop eating.

Our modern inert food is why we are so much fatter than our ancestors.

The soil is filled with rock dust which we cannot absorb, but the microbes break it down into complex chemicals we can absorb. These go to replace our body parts as they age and wear.

Our gut brain also controls much of our immune system protecting us 24/7 from infections. Our gut brain is one of the most important yet neglected organs in our bodies.

All you have to do is to turn the swivel pipe drain to drain the box so the compost tea in the box does not go putrid, reapply to the plants and refill the box through the inlet tube.

When finished just swap for a new box. So easy

You need to eat the leaves before the beneficial microbes die, just pick and eat, make into a smoothie, add to a sandwich or roll or just top your normal meal.

Far better and much cheaper than any pill.

To learn more about food and how it affects our health read here

To learn more about how to grow plants that will make us healthy read  here

To learn how to participate in the Gbiota healthy food movement read here

We live in an age where peoples concentration is measured in seconds - for that surviving section of the world who are prepared to sit and read a serious article about how to survive the Anthroprocene read here

We are told that modern food is healthy - and it is true it is full of sugars, fats and carbs which give us energy. But it is dead, sterile, lifeless and we need those beneficial microbes and they are just not there.

This is a bad thing.

Bad things happen when good men stand by and do nothing - Abraham Lincoln

Not having enough real gut health food to eat at an affordable price is a bad thing.

Modern food makes us overfull but under nourished. Healthy food is grown in soil full of beneficial biota and minerals.

How do we change things for the better?

It is simply the power of the wallet. One person going into a supermarket has no buying power.

Form a group then you have real buying power and can buy directly from growers who are committed to growing healthy plants in healthy soil.

It is healthier and costs less.

We have the technology of growing healthy soil - that is what this web site is all about but to benefit from this technology people need to join or form their own local food buying group.

First step simply register that you want to buy real food grown in living soil in our community area - it costs nothing and you can make contact with other people who want to eat healthy food grown in real soil - we call them biofoodies and growers committed to regenerating their soils.

You get healthy food and have priority to food when things go bad - growers have a stable customer base so can invest in their soils - everyone wins. Just take the trouble to join and participate in a community food group

The Gbiota teams is here to help you set up and run these groups - we do it because bad things happen when good men (and women) stand buy and do nothing.

If you, and your grand kids and their grand kids want to eat healthy food then join the Gbiota social movement. One person can do nothing - a community of like minded people can make thing happen.

Join the Gbiota social movement here.

Signs of a healthy gut - Good and Bad bugs

Say the words micro-biome, micro-biota, bugs or germs and most people think of bad things that must be exterminated.

The fact is that there are good bugs, they are on a skin, hair, nose, mouth, our gut and even our brain. We are totally dependant on them and simply could not exist without them.

Microbes have a short life and breed like crazy. If we get the conditions right the good bugs will simply out breed the bad bugs.

The basic principle underlying the Gbiota technology is to have a food system where we create the right conditions where the good bugs out compete and out breed the bad bugs so we can have a long and healthy life.

Here are our choices -

Option 1

We can stay with our current food system where we chop down the last bits of remaining forest for land which we destroy with chemicals so we can grow crops to feed to animals locked in cages and covered in their own shit which end up polluting our rivers.

The food is full of fats, sugars and carbs so we get fat and sick and may have a leg chopped off from diabetes and will end up decrepit before we die young.

We destroy the soil so our grand kids never get to eat real food and all this so mega corporations can make mega profits.

Chemical industrial agriculture is a major source of green house gases but far worse - it is destroying the soil on which all life depends.

That is the cost of doing nothing and why ordinary people like you and me need to act.

We cannot leave it to the profit motive for us, our grand kids and their grand kids to have healthy food. It is up to us to act. Bad things happen when good men (and women) stand by and do nothing.

Join the Gbiota community food movement here.

Option 2

Or we can eat fresh fruit and vegetables grown in living nutritious soil maintained healthy by recycling organic waste and manures. We can live a long and active life into old age and our grand kids and their grand kids can eat real food.

But we have to take action starting with just three action points.

First -

we have to read and watch the videos to understand the basics of how food affects our health here.

If we want to develop a deeper we can go to food and videos.

Second -

we must show that we are committed to a healthy and sustainable food system by saying this is me and I am committed to supporting growers that regenerate their soil to give me healthy food by buying from them.

Read more here

If you are a grower whether just a home, community or commercial grower, then you can invest in regenerative growing.

This is the power of the wallet, or many wallets - far more powerful than any mega-corporation.

The solution is just so simple - just form a group and buy directly from growers dedicated to regenerating their soils.

You do this by registering here - it costs you nothing but shows your commitment.

Third-

you must tell your friends so they join the movement for growing food in a sustainable way that will keep us healthy.

I am powerless to change the food system, you and me together will still have little impact but if we can create a social movement of real food for the community we can make that change so our grand kids and their grand kids can eat real food.

What next for community growing?

Join the Gbiota club -

The Gbiota club is a private social media site. You have to be a member to see what other members are doing, post and share information and chat.

It is a totally free community service, your information is confidential within the club and we expect members to respect social norms.

There are four categorises -

Biofoodie - means you just want to buy Gbiota food from a local grower. By registering you are telling potential local growers that you are a potential customer. It costs money and time to set up Gbiota beds so if people don’t register there will be no growers.

Home grower - means you just want to set up your own Gbiota beds or Bioboxes for personal use only.

Community grower - means you are not running a commercial business but are supplying your local community typically with a financial exchange.

Commercial grower - means you want to set up Gbiota beds and sell plants or Bioboxes to your local community.

Our gut health controls our body - it needs to be fed gut food

Bioboxes

You can go to the supermarket and buy energy food, loaded with sugars, fats and carbs at a reasonable price.

But try and buy fresh vegetables, what they call fresh is days or weeks old by which time most of the goodness has long gone.

If you are a keen and skilled gardener you can grow you own and just pick and eat so it is genuinely fresh.

But what happens if you don’t have land, skills or time. That is where Gbiota Bioboxes come in to play. Fresh fruit and vegetables growing at home and buying directly from the grower at a lot lower cost and with a reliable supply chain.

The grower uses the Gbiota beds to grow soil, using organic waste, manure and minerals to grow the biota and mineral rich soil. This soil is then loaded into Bioboxes.

The boxes are large enough to grew a useful amount of food but light enough to be readily transported.

The key is in the soil, Wickimix is a living soil with microbes, bacteria, fungi and worms specificially grown in Gbiota beds to be used in any Wicking bed.

They are offered at three levels.

Customer can simply buy what we call a clean skin - a box loaded with soil ready for the customer to seed and grow plants as the wish. This costs some $50 per box.

The next level is what we call a swapper. The box is seeded and the plants grown ready to harvest using the tipping system where just the tips of the plants are harvested and allowed to regrow.

After a period the plants become old and the boxes are simply swapped for another box.

This costs some $70 per box.

At the top of the list is the extreme box which is planted with a combination of some 27 different varieties of plants. This is definitely the best way to go as with gut biota variety of plants and microbes is the way to go.

This costs some $80 per box.

The boxes, on any system can simply be swapped for fresh box reloaded with fresh soil and nutrients and that only costs some $20 per box on swap over.

But again logistics come into play. It just makes no sense to have a mega farm producing Bioboxes and shipping them over large distances - it is simply not the way this alternative food system should be moving.

A much better approach is to set up local growers who are geared up to supply the boxes to their local customers - who we call biofoodies.

These would be viable, local independent business not part of some mega corporation.

Iceberg lettuce - was $2 now - if you can find one $13.

The food crisis is here and it is here to stay. Don’t be deluded that after the floods have gone and Putins war is over everything will go back to normal - it won’t.

The Gbiota movement focus is how to grow food, in a sustainable way that we, our grand kids and their grand kids can eat food that will make them healthy.

We don’t sell food, or anything, we just provide the know how - the growing technology for those people want to buy or grow food that will make them healthy.

Food and health is complex and there are hundreds of technical articles and videos on this site so first a simple overview.

The raw facts are that -

- the population explosion and the increasing consumption per person are putting great strain on the earth to grow enough food

- we need food for energy and food for our body.

Energy or fuel is not the problem - we can capture the suns energy using plants, algae and plankton to create carbs, sugars and fats from the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

We can process this to make synthetic food which tastes and feels like real food.

The real problem is food to feed our brains.

We have two brains - one in our head which is human the other in our gut which is made from trillions of cells which communicate with each other to form a super computer.

They communicate with each other through the vagus nerve providing an intelligent control system for our body. Together they regulate our breathing, heart rate, repair and replacement of organs as they age and particularly appetite.

If they are working properly we get signals telling us we have eaten enough so we naturally regulate our food consumption.

In our modern food system we have an abundance of energy food or fuel but we are not producing enough of the sort of food that feeds our brains.

What makes this so serious is if we eat largely energy food our brains sense they are not getting enough brain food and send out signals for us to eat more - and if we eat yet more energy food we are on the road to non-infectious diseases like diabetes, heart attacks and dementia.

This is not some problem for the distant future - it is happening right now. Every twelve seconds someone has a limb amputated from diabetes.

Brain food is complex - if we feed our gut the right sort of food the beneficial biota out breed the harmful biota and if we feed our gut the wrong sort of food the harmful biota out breed the beneficial biota.

We can no more make synthetic gut food than we can make synthetic human babies - but we have made a pretty good job of making human babies by simple observing the conditions in which they thrive.

This is the basis of the Gbiota technology - create the condition of food and water where the beneficial biota thrive.

In practise this means breeding beneficial biota in organic waste, manures and minerals, controlling the moisture level and growing plants which we eat shortly after picking.

This cannot be done with the conventional food system of mega farms and transporting food over long distances. We need a local food system where people can buy and eat plants while still fresh.

The ideal system is the Gbiota Biobox where people buy boxes with growing plants which they nurture in their own home and simply pick and eat.

We provide the technology of growing this gut food to local growers both home and commercial.

Food and health is complex and there are hundreds of technical articles and videos on this site you may like to read an introduction to Gbiota here or watch this introductory video.

This site is about how to grow gut food.

Our gut brain is intelligent, with trillions of cells which communicate with each other working like a super computer. We have no idea of the code that makes if work but we know for sure that it controls our appetite so we don’t over or under eat, replaces our body parts as they age or wear and hosts much of our immune system.

Our gut is the key to health and we need to feed it the right sort of food so it works properly and that means looking after the soil in which our food grows.

Our gut biota has a short life and can be readily changed simply by what we eat, this site shows how to grow this beneficial gut food which really originates in the soil.

You may prefer to start by looking at our video section where there is some hundred videos produced over the last twenty five years looking at soil, water and the basic principles of how to grow food that will lead to a healthy gut.  Also here is a good background read.

Our gut controls our body - it needs to be fed gut food