Why Gbiota boxes

I am a great believer in technology, over hundreds of thousand of years it has enabled us humans to survive and become the dominant creature on our planet.

But technology must work for the benefit of the community and not just make a few people very rich.

I was a pioneer in the computer revolution and for my pioneering work on computer aided engineering I was selected by the Institute of Engineers as one of Australia’s top one hundred innovators, but when I look at the food industry and how it is digitally promoted the technology I see it is missing the point.

I see very sophisticated data on how much carbohydrate, sugars, fats, minerals and vitamins we should be eating. I can look up and see how many micro-grams of selenium, zinc and magnesium we should be eating on an average day.

But the point is that over hundred of thousands of years we have evolved a gut brain automatically do that for us, without us even thinking about it – and it does it much better than weighing micro grams of minerals. Our gut brain consists of trillions of cells which communicate with eat other and send out signals saying we need to eat more of this or that or simply stop eating as we are satisfied.

It automatically monitors our bodies so it knows if we have had a couch day to reduce the amount of food, if we have been out in the hot sun it knows we need some extra salts and if we have been on a long hike we need to get the sugar levels up. Our gut brain is a very clever organ.

pend many years of my life writing computer code, I understand how code works but I have absolutely no idea how the code works in our guts – and neither does anybody else. All we can do is marvel how well it works.

Unfortunately our modern food system does not look after our gut brain so we suffer many diseases related to poor diet but instead of fixing our gut brain we spend all this time and energy on creating an artificial process to control our diet.

The Gbiota box – making life easy

That is why I developed Gbiota beds – to feed our gut brain. These large in ground bed work well and are well suited to commercial of skilles growers – but they do require some skill and understanding to make them work. So I have now developed the Gbiota box so anyone can grow their own Gbiota food – even if they live in a flat and have not growing skills.
I am setting up a network of local suppliers who can manufacture and supply these Gbiota boxes so people can buy one or more boxes directly and have fresh gut food growing at home.