I am a real person

I am a real person - not some computerised zombie that looks and talks like a real person (like in automated telephone answering machines). I am lucky, I have had a long and good life and seen many changes in the world.

When I was a kid a had a weekend job on a chicken farm - bluntly shovelling shit - but I earned enough to buy a bike. But I learned that our food system was based on manure.

People were generally not fat and I never heard of diabetes although I knew all about infectious diseases - as a toddler if some other kid got one of those childhood infections like chicken pox we were all taken to a chicken pox party with lots of cakes and we all got infected and then immune - that was the way the world worked back then.

Then along came technology with synthetic fertilisers - particularly nitrogen - and food production just rocketed and so did population - but not as fast as food production.

Now we can go to the super market and choose from a wide variety of foods from all over the world - (that is unless there is a bush fire, flood, drought, epidemic or some other crisis which blows away our food distribution system.)

But there is a snag - we evolved with a total abundance of fresh plants grown in young soil but sugars and fats were in short supply so we evolved to crave sugary fatty foods (like ice cream) but not crave the plant foods, with all that live biota and minerals, that feed our gut. That is just the way we are made.

But our gut is really smart and knows that we are missing important parts of our diet so it sends our messages saying eat more and we end up fat and sick with an epidemic of diabetes, heart attacks and dementia that never occurred before.

Now this matters - for every person that dies from Covid a hundred people are sick and die younger from diabetes.

This is not some new discovery, many people understand the importance of organic style food on health such that organics is the fastest growing food segment. What restrict the growth is that organics can cost multiples of chemical industrial produce.

The fact that people with no growing experience in growing can successfully grow fresh food in Wicking Beds at a much lower cost than supermarket food has led to their astonishing adoption.

If we had a Wicking Bed system specifically developed to grow gut food the demand would just explode - and that is exactly what the Gbiota Biobox is.

Technically we know how to solve the gut food issue

It is just a question of eating plants grown in biologically active, nutrient rich soil. Science really understand all the minerals our bodies need. I learned very young about shovelling shit and making compost that biota breeds in organic waste. But there is an issue of water.

If the soil is too dry then the biota does not breed, if it is too wet then the wrong sort of biota out breed the good biota.

To breed the beneficial biota we need just the right moisture level, Goldilocks moisture not too dry and not too wet.

Now I am like everyone else, good and some things and hopeless at others - my spelling is absolootly acchrowshus. But one thing I happened to find out I was good at was computational fluid flow, how fluids move. In fact I set up a company which became the leading exporter of technical software from Australia and a world leader in its field.

And knowing a bit about how water moves through the soil just happens to be particularly useful when trying to breed beneficial biota. I pioneered Wicking Beds over twenty years ago and have consistently refined them up to the latest Gbiota Bioboxes which enable anyone, with no gardening experience to have fresh plants growing on their patio or window ledge.

So the problem is not a technical problem - anyone who has had the delight of a three year old kids knows how difficult it is to get them to eat over boiled Brussels sprouts.

It is a social problem.

Just look at the world today, we have missiles aimed at maternity hospital killing mothers and babies - beyond human imagination that any human being could do that to another human being.

But before we get to tough on autocratic leaders look at our own society. Global mega corporations, with revenues bigger than many countries, cause untold damage by the manipulation of the truth deceiving the public and exercising unwarranted influence on the Governments who are supposed to protect the interest of people like you and me.

So what is the solution. It is not to set up yet another global mega corporation selling gut food across the globe with multi billion dollar advertising budgets.

Food must be in the control of people who eat - it must not be ‘just for profit’ operation.

Local people should control their local food system.

It is just so simple, set up local food groups where growers can produce soils (yes you can make, or rather grow soil). This soil can be put into the latest version of Wicking boxes - Bioboxes - so people, almost anyone, can enjoy fresh plants, full of beneficial biology and nutrients in their home.

Now it is just not possible to set this up overnight throughout the world. We have to start in areas where there is a group of people who understand what needs to be done and are willing to put the effort into making it happen.

I can help here. If you just enrol showing your interest in becoming part of a local food project then I can see where there are the embryos of locals groups and help these groups to develop into fully functioning local food groups.

All you have to do is to fill in the form, costs you nothing and there is no obligation either way - I will feed these into a geomap and look for where these local embryos may be forming.

You will need to provide information on your location which will be treated in confidence, if you don’t trust us just go to Google Maps and click on a location near you and send us the coordinates.

You will also need to supply an email address so we can contact you when we have a group embryo.

Look forward to hearing from you

Colin (the real)

Gbiota bioboxes - the basics

The aim of the Gbiota technology is to replenish our gut with living beneficial biota and the food it needs to thrive.

Gut biota has a short life so it is important to eat plants while there are fresh, which means shortly after harvesting rather than they have not yet gone rotten - very different things.

People with a garden and the skills and the time can set up their own Gbiota beds and have fresh food every day but the Gbiota Biota box system allows almost everyone to have the health benefits of genuinely fresh food with the beneficial biota.

The key is in the soil. A grower, either a professional grower or friendly neighbourhood home grower can set up an in ground Gbiota bed to grow the soil. This requires organic material, minerals, inoculants and most important careful control of the moisture level.

The beneficial biota will simply not grow and out compete the harmful biota if the soil is either too wet or too dry.

This Goldilocks moisture level is achieved using the principle of partial flood and drain using a leaky dam.
Gbiota bioboxes are an extension of Wicking Beds with a few extra tweaks.

As in a Wicking Bed the bed is watered from underneath by a pipe which has to pass over a leaky dam. This floods the base of the bed to the height of the leaky dam. Any excess water simply returns back to the water reservoir so the bed is never flooded.

Water wicks up from the flooded base to dampen the rest of the bed.
But after a period the water leaks out through the leaky dam and back into the reservoir for the next pulse.

The bed is initially loaded with selected organic material where the beneficial biota can breed, but this needs to be continuously replaced.

Bins are placed on the surface and filled with organic material, manure and minerals. Water is regularly flushed through the bins creating a compost tea which soaks through the soil and eventually ends up in the reservoir for recycling.

The water, or rather compost tea, in the beds is always moving and never becomes stagnant which will lead to the harmful biota breeding in the compost tea going putrid.

These beds can be used for growing edible plants but their prime purpose is to grow the soil to go into the Gbiota Bioboxes.

These work on the same principles as the in ground beds with a drain pipe to regulate the maximum height of the water. But instead of having a leaky dam there is an a restricted outlet so there is never any stagnant water.

The Gbiota Bioboxes only need watering and topping up the compost reservoirs so can be supplied to people who don’t have a garden, time or skills for gardening but can still benefit from be able to eat plants, full of living biota and essential minerals, which can be picked and eaten without the normal inevitable delays in the normal food distribution system.

While the obvious focus is on gut health, this is an extremely economic way of providing food without the normal costs in distribution and marketing and is a convenient way of recycling food waste which would otherwise end up in land fill contributing to green house gases.

At this moment we are setting up groups of consumers and growers but while we are setting these up you can put your name on a waiting list will will accelerate the establishment of groups in your area.

Hubert is so busy on a pet project that he wont bother to eat so Gertrude has to send a message saying you are hungry and need to eat

Hubert knows we need energy so he goes to the shop and buys a giant cheese cake which he starts stuffing in his mouth.

Gertrude knows this is very bad but she controls taste so after a bit the cheese cake does not taste so good.

Gertrude understands that our bodies are made up of trillions of cells which die so we need to replace them.

She has learned which minerals are needed and which foods contain them - so she makes Hubert crave that food.

This is pretty smart but it only works if she is healthy herself from eating the right sort of food that suits her.

There are trillions of microbes in our gut comprising thousands of species, feed it right we get the good species - feed it wrong we get the bad species.

The microbes in our gut do not live very long - may be just a few days, they are continuously eating and breeding. The species that dominate depend on what we feed them. If we feed them sugar we end up with sugar loving microbes.

But we also get new microbes in the food we eat. Microbes live in the soil and particularly in the guts of creatures that live in the soil. They can move into the roots of the plants that we eat then into us where they replenish our store of microbes.

There are beneficial and harmful biology in the soil, which survive depends on the conditions in a natural Eco-system.

The biology and creatures in the soil have short lives and breed rapidly. If the conditions favour the harmful biology they will out breed the beneficial biology and we will become sick.

If the conditions favour the beneficial biology they will triumph leading to better health for us.

Moisture and minerals are critical and are a key part of the Gbiota technology.

 

We are not the person we used to be - every three months much of our body is rebuilt.

Our bodies do not stay the same, from birth they are continuously growing but even when we reach maturity the material in our body is continuously being replaced.

This requires much more than calories and protein but also minerals,vitamins and beneficial biota.

These comes from the food we eat, either directly but our gut reprocess this food into the highly complex chemicals our bodies need.

That is why we need to supplement our diet with plants grown in soil rich in beneficial biota and minerals.

 

We have to rely on people who believe that their health and the sustainability of our food system is more important that short term profits.

It just takes on local person to say I am going to be a local gut food leader. Just one person can contact their friends and ask them to contact their friends, tell them the story of gut food and form a group.

Once they have a group they have the power of the wallet, the group leader can then recruit local growers and organise shopping trips to go around the various growers and either deliver to the homes of group members or set up a local pick up point.

They can obviously expect the group to support the group leader financially, everyone needs money, but the motivation in the health of the group and the sustainability of our food system.

Please note in the Gbiota system consumers buy directly from growers and we do not become involved in the commercial transaction, we provide support for both local leaders and growers and we expect growers to subscibe.  We may not be a 'for profit' operation but we still have costs to cover.

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You can read about food and the Gbiota technology by going to the menu item food here  If you want to lean about the Gbiota technology for growing gut food then you can go to the menu item growing here

If you are interested in becoming a local leader please send for our local leader.pdf here  where we can help you set up your local group.

If you would like to join, either as a consumer or grower, you can go to account here and register.