Unless you are a total hermit you can’t have missed that the world is in a bit of a mess – Covid, bush fires, floods droughts and food shortages.
When the price of an iceberg lettuce rises from $2 to $13 then you have to notice. OK the price has now dropped down to $7 so everything is going to be OK – no that is just because they are shipping them in from miles away. Things are bad and are going to get worse.
I thought I would Google to see how much carbon dioxide was emitted in the recent bush fires – 700 million tons – compared that with a total emission from Australia of 500 million tons. My going to the shops on my bike rather than driving my car is not going to have much impact on that – however good it may make me feel that I am making a contribution.
So what can I do that will have an impact, particularly to the food crisis and the wobbly food chain?
Here is my plan and I hope that you will join me.
Some twenty five years ago I started to promote Wicking Beds, not my invention – anyone who has seen a desert oasis will realise that nature invented them first – like many things we think are a technical breakthrough. I just copied nature.
They went viral and now there must be many thousand of people with a Wicking Bed in their back yard happily growing a few vegetables. But there are billions of people who don’t have a back yard, time, skills or even the interest in growing some of their own food.
Before I start on my plan can I just say that food waste contributes 10% of global greenhouse gases and is a criminal waste of nutrients.
So here is my plan, I try and persuade these home gardeners to become community growers. They make two Wicking Boxes, except I now call them Bioboxes because I use them to breed microbes for our gut health – but that is another story.
One is empty the other full of growing plants ready to harvest. The customer (I call them biofoodies from my interest in gut health) loads all their kitchen waste into the empty box, (provide with a lid to avoid pongs). On a regular basis these are swapped for fresh boxes – one empty the other full of fresh food plants.
The community grower now adds minerals and inoculants to the food waste and breeds up beneficial biota in Gbiota beds to make nutrient rich soil which are used to grow really healthy food in Bioboxes for the Biofoodies happily living away in their apartments or wherever.
They don’t have to worry about anything other than a weekly watering.
I have tested the technology, it works fine I just need the cooperation of community growers.
If you feel you may like to participate in this project can you can either email me and we can work though any issues you may have or just go straight to www.gbiota.com read a bit more about the project then hopefully register as a community grower.
You would not only be contributing to the community but you can earn money in the process.
If you just want to be a Biofoodie customer I would like to hear from you too. Customers matter
