Don’t waste good food

‘I will just give these to the chickens.’ How can such a simple phrase lead to a major rethink of how we stay fit and healthy.

You see I was standing at Community Lifestyle Support’s nursery on one of their market days when I heard that phrase and it really got me thinking about the supply system for fresh vegetables.

I know just how important our gut biome is, our modern epidemic of non infectious diseases like heart attacks, strokes, dementia and particularly diabetes all stem from a poor gut biome which forms part of our intelligent control system which manages how much and where we store fat.

Plants are natural pre and pro biotics, our gut evolved over a couple of million years by our predecessors eating green leaves so we know they work.

The snag is that the microbes in and on green leaves have a short life span, one hour for a microbe is equivalent to a human year so plants are the most healthy and taste much better if they are eaten within 24 hours of picking.

Each day after that the beneficial microbes are progressively replaced by harmful microbes until the plant is obviously rotten.

That is why we developed the Gbiota box system so people can have plants full of beneficial microbes growing in soil teaming with microbes and nutrients.

But there was two things that struck me at that market day.

First even though growing plants at home is undoubtedly the best way of improving gut health there is still a lot of people who just don’t want the hassle and prefer to buy the plants directly.

Secondly although there are many successful home gardeners growing their own food for their health there are times when the crops grow so well that there is a total abundance of plants and they have no idea what to do with this surplus other than give it to the chickens.

There are probably millions of tons of perfectly good food, full of beneficial microbes going to waste because these home growers have no easy way of supplying this to people who really need it.

Then it struck me – I am sitting on the solution with my web aptly named www.pickandeat.shop

Home growers can simply advertise, for free on my web, that they have surplus food. If they wish they can make a charge for this food which people pay for on line then just go and pick up at some set time, say between 10 to 11 on Saturday morning.

Even commercial growers could use this system, receiving pre paid orders which customers just pick up at the local market.

This would save millions of tons of food going to waste (and I hate to see food wasted) and mean people would have access to fresh food before the beneficial microbes are replaced by the harmful microbes.

Interested? Just email me at colin@gbiota.com and I will send you details of how to set up your pickandeat.shop advert.