Gbiota Blog

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.

In the wonderful world of food the established paradigm, based on chemistry, has been incredibly successful. In my life time, incredibly short on a geological time scale, we have increased food production by a factor of 4.3 – just totally stunning. At the centre of this success is nitrogen – we learned the chemistry of how to capture nitrogen from the air to make fertilisers and whoom! food production just went through the roof. But there is a problem ….

We have two brains, one that lives in our head and another we can call Gertrude that lives largely in our gut.
They both work in the same way with trillions of cells which can communicate with each other like a super computer so they have intelligence and can learn.

The purpose of the Gbiota local food movement is to help people set up viable, ethical, and sustainable businesses supplying their local community with gut food.

To understand why this is important we need to understand about gut biology or Gbiota.

It is about breeding beneficial biology in the soil and in the guts of the creatures that live in the soil. This biology enters the plants which we eat together with a plentiful supply of the food to feed the biology.

These may all be packed inside a cabbage but the cabbage is purely the packaging for the biology.

It is not about selling cabbages, or selling anything for that matter, it is about showing people how they can grow the beneficial biology by recycling waste.

Recent heavy rains, and the accompanying crop damage, has shown us the need to modify our growing systems to adapt to extreme weather.
A much more serious issue is that in the midst of the saturation bombing of the digital and social media era we seem to think that we can happily live in a world of virtual reality divorces from actual reality.

Let me tell you a story about food. In our modern society all we seem to want as adults is a catch phrase ‘Make plum pudding tasty again’ or better a photo on their smart phone with a catchy caption.