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Gbiota soil
Creating soil is the number two challenge facing humanity, after climate change.
We know exactly how to do it, it has been happening for billions of years naturally covering much of the earth in a layer of fertile soil.
Then mankind had this idea that the only purpose of soil was to hold the plants upright and we could supply all the nutrients the plants needed.
This idea is not just wrong, it is one of the biggest goofs mankind has ever made,
Tribox story
The Tribox is the grandfather of the latest Gbiota boxes.
The top box is essentially a normal growing box just like the millions of pots that are used across the globe. It is filled with soil or if no soil is available commercial potting mix, and then seeded and watered on a regular basis.
It has holes in the base to drain any excess water away.
The difference between a regular growing pot and the top Tribox is that a conventional pot is watered with fresh clean water while the top Tribox is watered with a brown liquid full of nutrients and living microbes which we call soil blood as it does the same job as our blood – circulates nutrients and living cells around the system.
Survival
I like to know what is going on in the world so I am a bit of an avid news watcher but when I see all the horror that is happening – wars across the globe, the Middle East, Africa, Myanmar and the one we have forgotten about Ukraine I get real upset.
I see young mums being killed, their children being crippled – how can people do that to other people?
Do regular people in Israel really hate the Palestinians that much, do the regular people in Russia really hate the Ukrainians that much?
I think not. Just look at my home country Australia – it is a total mix of people from all over the world yet we all seem to get along – true we do terrible things to some people but that is not the people it is prejudices in small cavities within our Governments.
Gbiota meaning
Ask me what Gbiota is all about and I would reply the survival of our species. You may think that I would be talking about climate change, the degradation of our soils or even some new plague.
And certainly I will talk about those – but later. First I have to talk about what Gbiota is really about.
Charles Darwin and the survival of the fittest
And to start I will talk about Charles Darwin – one of the worlds great lateral thinkers.
Gbiota intro
Welcome to gbiota.com the technical web for the Gbiota movement which is focused on improving gut health by growing plants in biologically active, nutrient rich soils.
We have tried to make the actual growing of the plants as simple and inexpensive as possible so virtually everyone has ready access which you can do by following the practical guide lines on this web.
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What to Grow (and Eat)
What should I grow? Sounds so simple but it is not.
Gbiota is about correcting deficiencies in our modern diet
Gbiota is not about total self sufficiency – I have tried that and it is not easy, actually it is just plain hard work and boring.
Gbiota is about filling in the holes left by our modern food system.
This is dominated by shelf life. We get food from all over the world by a highly complex distribution system which may be effective but takes time from harvest to table.
Microbes deficiencies – they breed and die fast
Why we need to change
Humans are an intelligent, innovative and naturally cooperative creature.
Our very first innovation was when a ferocious beast was eyeing us up for it’s dinner but we found that if we all worked together and threw stones at the beast it would just nick off and chase some less smart creature.
Innovation is good, if we had not made that first innovation you and I would not be here.
But there is an other side to human nature, there are a few humans who put their short term benefits over the long term benefits of the community.
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