Community movement to grow local gut food
The solution
The solution is simple – create a local community movement to provide gut food.
Those people lucky enough to have the land, time and skills – grow living soil – which they put into boxes and seed so other members of the community can benefit from healthy gut food growing in their home – even if it is an apartment with no garden.
People with a garden breed the biology in mother beds to grow plants which they supply to people without a garden who mature and harvest the plants in Gbiota boxes.
Simple and everybody wins.
It is not about selling cabbages (or whatever)
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.
Meaning of life
Maybe not as easy as going around the supermarket like a zombie tossing highly processed products in pretty plastic packaging into the basket.
But is certainly a lot healthier and gives a meaning to life and provides a future for our grand kids and their grand kids.
The problem
But what is the problem? To answer that we have to go a long way back in time.
When the earth was formed some four billion years ago it was just inert barren rock – totally lifeless.
Then various living organisms arrived bacteria, fungi, lichens, mosses etc and they broke down the rocks to form soil and also released oxygen into the air.
That took some three billion years and was really a pretty boring time.
Life explodes
Then with plants for food and oxygen to breath life just exploded on earth with some of the weirdest creatures appearing and vanishing.
But they all had two things in common – they had a brain – a conscious brain so they could decide things like whether to run away from a ferocious beast and a brain in their guts which they had no control over but helped them digest their food, told them whether they were hungry and needed to eat or were full so stop eating.
It also made a whole range of chemicals to replace body parts as they wore out and hosted their immune system so they did not die when the first infection wondered by.
Pre-humans
Then the pre-humans appeared. They lived in trees, as they preferred not to be eaten by ferocious beasts, and largely ate plants, particularly green leaves.
These pre-humans had two things in common with modern man – they needed to eat food to provide energy and food to feed their gut brain.
Living in trees there was a distinct shortage of fast food takeaways or any sort of sugary fatty food which provide energy but there was a total abundance of food to feed their gut biology – they were surrounded by it – growing in nutrient rich biologically active soil.
Lazy evolution
Nature is lazy and does not waste time and energy evolving things that are just not needed, so these pre-humans never bothered to evolve a system of telling them they were short of gut food – it was there in excess – but they did evolve a very effective system to tell them they needed to eat more sugary fatty foods.
It was very effective and we still have it and it is called hunger and if anybody does not believe me just stop eating for a couple of days.
True a few million years ago and still true now
That was true way back in time and it is still true now, we have a highly developed system for telling us when we are short of energy – sugary fatty foods – but no system for telling us that our gut biology is hungry.
Humans have evolved from creatures eating plants grown in virgin soil. There was never any problem in having enough gut food, plants were just there – growing naturally in abundance in biologically active nutrient rich virgin soil.
Humans then had a very healthy gut biota.
How do we know?
Modern day hunter gatherers, communities using traditional agriculture and the blue zones – have far healthier guts biology than us modern western humans.
That is despite all the actors dressed up as doctors trying to sell us some pro-biotic pills.
Why don’t modern humans naturally worry about their gut biota?
We never needed to crave gut food – it was just there – always fresh and ready for the taking so we evolved without the warning signals we have for energy foods.
Why we crave energy foods
Back then there was very little energy food available. So we were short of sugars and fats and we evolved to crave them and will go to great length to get them.
This is a bonanza for the modern food industry, sugary fatty foods are cheap and easy to make and we just love them – buy them like crazy and make the mega food industry a lot of money.
Green wash
They may make a pretence of offering us healthy gut food, like the ever fashionable Kale but by the time it is on the Super Market shelves it is over a week old so the beneficial gut biology will have long since died.
And worse it was probably grown in soil depleted in minerals – but it looks nice and fresh and green but is really just green washing – the curse of the digital age – manipulation of the truth.
Why gut food matters
Infectious diseases like Covid are bad, very bad but there are many, many times more people getting sick and dying from chronic diseases, like diabetes – but we just shrug our shoulders and say well that’s life and carry on as normal.
For every person that dies from Covid there are 100 people who become diabetic – primarily because their gut is not working as intended. They may not die gasping for breath, like Covid victims, but they could well have their limbs amputated, go blind and die younger than needed.
This is serious stuff which arises from exactly the same cause as global warming, greed for money and power from a few resulting in the destruction of our soils.
Well it is not life – it is just plain stupid – and we should do something about it – by feeding our gut brain so it works as it should – and has been doing for millions of years until the world went barmy and put profits ahead of health.
So what to do?
That is where the grow gut food community movement comes in. We actually know how to grow gut food – we have been doing it for millions of years so by now it is well tested and proven.
The key is in the soil. Dirt is inert and wont grow gut food – but turn it into soil with the trillion of creatures from microscopic to the creatures we can easily see with eyes. These will have stomachs just like ours full of gut biology.
The beneficial biology will move from the soil and into the plants and we eat the plants which are natural pre and pro biotics. It is really simple and has been tested over millions of years.
Grow the soil
There are two stages – first we have to grow the soil (or more correctly grow the biology that make dirt into soil). There is no magic about this – there are literally millions of people across the globe who have the skills to grow soil. Every locality will have many such skilled people with land to grow the biologically active nutrient rich soil.
It is described in the growing section on this web.
But there will be many people – the majority – who want to eat gut food but simply don’t have the land, skill, time and energy to grow soil.
The soil growers can load up boxes (Gbiota boxes) with soil and put in some plants for the second group – the consumers.
Grow the plants
This is a local project so there is no difficulty in transporting these boxes to the consumers. All they have to do is pick the plants as they become ready and eat. It is very important that the plants are picked and eaten before the biology dies.
But it is not just a question of the biology. Many people just don’t like eating vegetables and the reason is they think they will not taste nice.
Vegetables that are picked and eaten straight away can taste so much nicer.
So how does all this work in practise?
This has to be a community project. People within the community have to decide to cooperate together deciding who are going to be growers and who are going to be consumers.
This is not the role of the Gbiota team but we can help, using social media and our web sites to link growers and consumers together – but they have to decide how to participate with their local community.
Typically the consumers will form some from of agreement with the growers – such as a subscription scheme were boxes are delivered on a regular basis – but this is purely between the growers and consumers and the Gbiota team is not involved in any such financial arrangements. We dont make money from buying and selling Gbiota food.
The Gbiota’s team job is to provide information on our web site www.gbiota.com on how to set up the Gbiota beds and boxes and answer the inevitable question as they arise.
All of the articles in the food section are published under the creative commons system and are free and can be republished without permission but the source should be acknowledged.
The section on growing will become a subscription site for registered users only.
We expect them to study our publication on growing gut food and we invite them to publish details on how the growing methods they use on our www.pickandeat.shop web site.
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