Solving the food crisis
The world is suffering a food crisis, not in quantity – we are actually producing more food than the world needs – but in the quality that will lead us...
The best pro-biotic ever
What is the best pro-biotic ever, in fact the only one that really works for sure? Answer human breast milk. Puzzled scientists For many ears scientist were puzzled about some...
Food matters
It is well known that our gut biota plays a major roles in our health. Many researchers, such as Tim Spector, Professor at Imperial College, London explains this in his...
Hello
Gbiota Hello Many people know that chemical industrial agriculture and highly processes foods are not good for us. People react in different ways. Some people see this as their mission...
Gbiota 101
Gbiota basics – collecting organic waste to make labile compost – starting a new box – regenerating an old box
Gbiota overview 2024
Gbiota is an evolving technology and when some new bit of technology comes along I write a new article to describe what is new. This has led to hundreds of...
Join help
Explains the various membership levels and how to join
Try it
Just try it – it is neither expensive or difficult I am proposing that you make your own soil from food and organic waste, add mineral and microbes to create...
True Brain
Our gut is a true brain with intelligence. All those trillions of cells are communicating with each other like some super computer. Unfortunately we have no idea of the code...
Fire and food
Homo eructus, our ancient ancestor was a puny little creature that barely survived. But it discovered fire and learned to cook and the extra nutrients led to a bigger brain...
Conflict and aggression
Conflict and aggression or peaceful coexistence – these are the options facing humanity. Just look at what is happening in the world – people killing other people on every continent....
Modern Epidemic
Modern epidemic Food is the root cause of the modern epidemics of diabetes, heart attacks, dementia and feeling hangry. Hangry – angry because we feel hungry and not satisfied.
Help me help you
Help me help you My wife, Xiulan, is a medical doctor. She became diabetic and her foot started to turn black and our medical advisers told us they may have...
Fire, water and technology
Fire, water and technology There is an old saying that fire and water are good servants but bad masters, we must now add technology.
Fat and sick
Across the globe people are getting fat a sick from an epidemic of diseases like diabetes, heart attacks and dementia. Why? Our gut brain has trillions of cells which communicate...
Health starts in the soil
Health starts in the soil
Food and our nature
We know for sure that the food we eat can make us fat and sick, but what if it can affect our very nature, our DNA and make us a...
Try it
I am proposing that you make your own soil from food and organic waste, add mineral and microbes to create a soil teaming with beneficial microbes and nutrients and grow...
Inoculants
It is easy when growing Gbiota plants to become focused on the plants, which you can see, and forget that the real aim is to enhance the gut biota, which...
What science tells us
Let us look at what science can tell us about life as though our lives depend on it – as they do. Back to the start The earth is some...
Gbiota soil
Creating soil is the number two challenge facing humanity, after climate change. We know exactly how to do it, it has been happening for billions of years naturally covering much...
Tribox story
The Tribox is the grandfather of the latest Gbiota boxes. The top box is essentially a normal growing box just like the millions of pots that are used across the...
Survival
I like to know what is going on in the world so I am a bit of an avid news watcher but when I see all the horror that is...
Gbiota meaning
Ask me what Gbiota is all about and I would reply the survival of our species. You may think that I would be talking about climate change, the degradation of...
Gbiota intro
Welcome to gbiota.com the technical web for the Gbiota movement which is focused on improving gut health by growing plants in biologically active, nutrient rich soils. We have tried to...
Gbiota Biobox – practise
The Gbiota Biobox system is about breeding beneficial microbes in organic waste to grow plants as powerful pre and probiotics for your…
Gbiota Biobox Theory
The Gbiota Biobox is designed to do one simple but powerful thing: turn cheap, everyday organic waste into living soil that feeds…
What to Grow (and Eat)
What should I grow? Sounds so simple but it is not. Gbiota is about correcting deficiencies in our modern diet Gbiota is not about total self sufficiency – I have...
Why we need to change
Humans are an intelligent, innovative and naturally cooperative creature. Our very first innovation was when a ferocious beast was eyeing us up for it’s dinner but we found that if...
Our choice
We live in the Anthropocene which is just a flash way of saying that we now have the technology to choose how we live and die. We all have to...
Ecobox – how to
In this post I show how to build and maintain a Gbiota Tribox Growing soil is the key to the Gbiota technology so may I explain how it works. Plants...
Gbiota Tri Box – background
Modern food is full of energy but is low in the nutrients which feed our gut brain which acts as our intelligent control system which regulates, among many things, our...
Future of food
We are the first generation in history which decides whether we are a healthy people living on a healthy planet or let short term greed lead to our destruction. Here...
Making a Gbiota tribox
The flower pot method, using 40 cents flower pots, I described in an earlier post how-to-gpots is the cheapest way I know of applying this method, the stacked boxes I...
Good men
I full understand that there are many problems with our current food system, lack of critical mineral like magnesium, iron for women, zinc for men, B12 for vegetarians etc. But...
The How too
I have written a lot about the theoretical aspect of growing gut food – it is time to get down to the nitty gritties of setting up a Gbiota system....
Diabetes gut food project
We are experiencing a dramatic increase in diabetes. Fifty years ago just 1% of the population were diabetic but this has increased to 14% and is steadily increasing. We think...
Growing Gut food
ou can read latest newletter under new posts (free) The new industry of growing natural pre and pro biotics Background We know that there are trillions of cells in our...
The Gut Brain Revolution: Growing to Prevent Modern Disease
Growing food to feed your gut brain Colin Austin 19th June 23 Technology – benefiting the community The difference between humans and the Dodo is that humans are a bit...
Food waste
‘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...
People over profits
We know that the dominant cause of sickness and death in 1900 was infections disease and now it is non infectious diseases like diabetes, heart attacks strokes and dementia. The...
Real and fantasy
Gbiota is not simply about growing plants. We breed a wide spectrum of microbes in a growing medium calledGbiotamix and then grow plants so the microbes are packaged in the...
Invite to medical research
Excess storage of fat was largely blamed on our modern diet which could, it was optimistically thought, simply be resolved by diet, particularly the restriction of calories. The harsh reality...
Lamborghini and our gut
A dumb drunken driver in control of a Lamborghini is a dangerous combination. Our gut brain is the controller for our appetite. A gut biome which send out hormones to...
The Wickimix story
Chop my foot off – no way My wife Xiulan is a medical doctor, a gynaecologist and surgeon, so I was a bit surprised when she was diagnosed as diabetic....
Feed your brains
Our health span is set by our intelligent control system, our gut and head brains and these must be fed real food which is genuinely fresh before the beneficial microbes...
Unks and Ununks
John is still claiming that the modern supermarket food system is providing a reliable and abundant food supply with hygienic and energy packed food from all over the world regardless...
Upgraded beds Introduction
The world is changing at an incredible rate, climate change, the virus and the polarisation of the political system are immense problems, new technologies like artificial intelligence may seem beneficial...
Upgraded Beds
It is approaching thirty years since I was invited to go to Ethiopia to see if there was anything I could do to help feed people in one of those...
Welcome
Look at the news – fires, floods, draughts, refugees, political extremes, deliberate misinformation, the world is changing really fast – all sounds terrible so what to do? The biggest problem...
Food for Gut Health
The Gbiota club is a community of people that wants to enhance their gut micro-biome by eating plants grown in soil teaming with beneficial microbes, minerals and nutrients. Members can...
The food crisis
In the real world we all have to eat – and getting enough of the right sort of food that will keep us healthy is an issue. We know how...
The side hustle
It seems there are many people who understand the importance of gut health and how the trillions of cells made up from thousands of species talk to each other to...
Our gut
Right now you are successfully breeding beneficial microbes in your gut. That is good because most people want to live a long life, be strong, fit and healthy and avoid...
Our gut brain
The aim of the Gbiota club is to improve gut health by breeding beneficial microbes in a special soil, called Wickimix, to grow plants which act as natural pre and...
What is the Gbiota project
What is the Gbiota project? The Gbiota project is to enhance our gut microbiome by eating plants grown in a medium (Wickimix) where beneficial microbes that enhance our gut biome...
What is it all about
Energy food It varies a bit from person to person but about 80%, certainly the bulk, of the food we eat is just burned off as fuel for energy or...
The story of our guts
Our gut brain, made up from trillions of cells and thousands of species, which communicate with each other and has real intelligence is one of the truly amazing systems on...
Better gut health
Is it feasible that a couple of $8 plastic boxes could contribute to the worlds biggest health issue – excess fat in our bodies which lead to multiple health problems...
Health starts in the soil
For many years now I have been promoting the importance of gut biology and how we can simply and cheaply improve our gut biology by growing plants in soils teaming...
The Gbiota Bed Update
I have written many articles on making and managing Gbiota bed, in this article I want to give a simple description of the state of the art, I do this...
Overview
Grow gut brain food in living soil and restore genuine food health. Half the western population is suffering from some chronic or…
Diabetes trial
Join the diabetes trial
Health span
We are living longer – our life span is increasing, but our health span – how long we stay fit and active is decreasing – why? The answer lies in...
Trench beds
Wicking beds can be modified to breed the beneficial biota in the soil, which enters the plants then our gut brain using the plants as natural pre and pro biotics...
Gbiota boxes – update
Gbiota boxes, as there name suggests are enclosed and separate from any parent soil. They do not have the benefit of access to the life forms which live naturally in...
The W’s
I started to write this as a welcome message for people joining the Gbiota social movement but it got a bit off track, but I had fun writing it and...
The Plan
Here is a plan of how we can make healthy gut brain food readily accessable for all the community.
Food and floods
Floods are making it more difficult to grow any food giving shortages and price hikes – how can we grow food with floods
Crazy world
Has the world gone crazy? Wars, food shortages, floods and droughts, prices through the roof, epidemics, the internet – one of the most important innovations of our era has sunk...
Key Points
Key points When I am creating a project I find it useful to make a list of the key points. I have done this with the Gbiota project but I...
No dumb donkeys
We live in the digital age where we seems to expect that any problems can be solve by a few minutes search on the internet. If you think this is...
Soaker beds
I developed the original Gbiota beds to grow plants which act as natural pre and pro biotics by having a moist, not wet soil. It is very easy to make...
In-Ground Gbiota Beds
Sump beds were developed first as a way of taking advantage of the partial flood and drain cycle. They have been used for some years now and being automated are...
Food for health
Historically four out of every five people died before their natural age from an infectious disease. Both medical science and our food system has responded by finding better ways of...
Community food
Growers breed beneficial microbes in organic matter in the soil, also adding rock dust which is broken down by the microbes into accessible minerals forming nutrient rich biologically active soil....
Welcome to worm pooh
Health and life span We all have to eat and what we eat determines our health and life span. Thanks to medical science our life span has been increasing, no...
How Gbiota beds work
Wicking beds are now very common across the globe. Many have a base filled with some inert material – often stones. These are just self watering pots – nothing wrong...
Food and the gut biome
The bulk of the food we eat is just burned for energy. We are really just a walking talking thermodynamic machine just like any other thermodynamic machine from a steam...
Health starts in the soil
Every day we here stories of doom and gloom about food, price hikes from floods and droughts, problems with the supply chain from Covid, lack of nutrients and beneficial biota...
Health starts in the soil Part 2
Every day we here stories of doom and gloom about food, price hikes from floods and droughts, problems with the supply chain from Covid, lack of nutrients and beneficial biota...
Action plan
Our gut brain is the key to good health. Consumer get fresh veggies which act as gut food which is genuinely healthy at an affordable price, growers get paid for...
Bit of a mess
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...
Community growers
If you looking at this web I assume you are interested in your health and understand that you just cannot be really healthy unless you are eating healthy food. You...
About Gbiota
The Gbiota Community An online community where groups can chat, exchange information – particularly on preferred plant species which are suited to the locality and season. You can share information...
elowyn
Well, it is pretty simple. This is my great-granddaughter Elowen. She has no idea what gut biota is, but she knows instinctively…
Time travel
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...
Why Gbiota boxes
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...
I am a person
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...
Bioboxes basics
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...
The paradigm shift
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...
Gut health
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...
Gut biology basics
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...
Local gut food
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...
Open Letter to the Prime Minister: A Climate Strategy Using Soil Carbon and Wicking Beds
This letter outlines a practical way to strengthen Australia’s climate strategy by pairing carbon trading with real, measurable carbon reductions. The core…
Secure Water in the Murray–Darling Basin: The Facts and the Hard Choices
The Murray–Darling system has been over-allocated for years, and there is simply not enough water to satisfy every user and still protect…
Join the Gbiota Club
I believe everyone in our affluent world should have access to healthy food at an affordable price, specifically nutrient-dense food that improves…
Community food
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...
Making soil in Gbiota beds
The key principle of Gbiota bed is to breed beneficial biology both for the soil and for our guts – creating the conditions which favour the beneficial biology – so...
Gut health
Our gut is one of the most important organs in our body – made up of trillions of cells that communicate with each other – it has real intelligence –...
Mother bed
Gbiota beds were developed to grow plants to feed our guts. Technically they have been successful but may be a bit complex for many people, particularly pregnant ladies and mums...
Action plan for gut health
People don’t get fat and sick simply because they just happen to eat too much, they get fat and sick because their gut brain is not working as it should...
Alice
Our gut is not strictly part of us and we, or rather our mum, has to make it for us from the food she eats and feeds us as a...
ecobalance
Why our gut brain is so important Our gut is one of the most important organs in our body. It contains trillions of cells which communicate with each, like in...
Get started
Life, even our modern sophisticated life, is totally dependant on the microscopic biota that are virtually everywhere on earth – but particularly in the soil making inert minerals available and...
Gbiota box story
Over hundreds of thousands of years we have evolved a gut brain that automatically looks after us, without us even thinking about it – and it does it much better...
Opportunity
We all have to eat and the way we are currently growing our food is slowly but inevitably destroying our planet’s ability to grow the food we need. We are...
Introduction to Gbiota
This web is a bit different. We are not trying to sell you something – there are not special offers – buy now before prices jump – or any of...
Gbiota boxes
The purpose of GBiota beds is to breed beneficial biology in the soil. This biology enters the plants growing in the soil so when we eat the plants they act...
Immune
There are many plants in traditional medicine which are claimed to strengthen our immune system. There has been genuine scientific research into some of these plants which support these claims...
Delta
I am urgently looking for people or organisations to help improve the communities gut health and hence immune system by manufacturing and distributing Gbiota boxes. This delta virus is a...
updateAug21
This is an update on the practical side of making and managing Gbiota beds. I assume you are familiar with the previous publications and videos available under videos, blogs and...
Anthropocene
What should I eat so I am fit and healthy – what can eight billion people eat so they are fit and healthy and what will my great grand kids...
Overview
How gut food will enhance our gut biology and immune system – overview
Gut Biology Sources
Technical references on food, health and gut.
Index
post written to link to key articles on growing plants to feed our gut
What food does
I start with what food does which explains the various jobs that food does in our bodies and how innovation has dramatically increased the overall supply of food – far...
Food and innovation
food and innovation which has led to the wrong development of the wrong sort of food and a two tier society of haves and have nots – which is intrinsically...
Principles of Gbiota beds
Gbiota beds grow plants to enhance our gut biology – here is the basic principles of how they work
Spreading the benefits of Gbiota beds
how to implement this technology – spreading the benefits of Gbiota beds so that the whole of society can benefit
Changing the food system
In my life time the worlds population has increased three fold (actually 3.47) and they all those mouths have to be fed. We have seen the massive increase in agricultural...
Community Supported Agriculture
The Gbiota club is a community-supported agriculture movement where growers and eaters work together to restore soil health, support our gut biology,…
The Gbiota story – continued
We know how to grow food with these essential minerals and biology and there are plenty of regenerative farmers willing to grow using these methods – but they need a...
Food and becoming adult
Our bodies have an inbuilt intelligent control system which regulates all aspect of our bodies including our appetite. The wide variety of species of micro biology in our gut is...
Greta Foodberg
In this article I show how Greta Foodberg and I are going to change the world’s food system. The good news it you only have to read the first and...
Making soil 101
Gbiota beds are not simply a watering system to grow cabbages – they are to breed the biology to grow plants as natural pre and pro biotics.
Feed your gut brain
Feed your gut brain My interest is how to grow plants that improve our gut brain – one of the most vital organs in our bodies and the key to...
Our gut brain
Modern food contains a surplus of energy food (fats and sugars) but is sadly lacking in the complex chemicals needed to regenerate our bodies. Our bodies sense this lack, sending...
Adapting to the food crisis
Learning how to adapt to the food crisis is the most important skill we can teach our kids. That means understanding how the world is changing then helping them change...
School Garden Project
In our gut are a huge number of micro organisms which talk to each to create an intelligent system – our gut brain. This gut brain controls our appetite, supports...
Health and life span
how food affect health and life span
Gbiota Videos
This video library covers the core ideas behind Gbiota—how microbes shape soil, plants, appetite, energy, and long-term health. These short explanations help…
Minister’s Reply on Water Reform and Water-Saving Innovation (2006)
In May 2006, Malcolm Turnbull MP replied to Colin Austin’s letter about Australia’s water policy and new technologies to harvest more rain.…
Aquaponics by Igor
This is a post from one of our users Igor Grossman in Melbourne about his aquaponics systems. Although a different technology the…
The essence
Our guts do much more than help us digest our food. Our guts are part of the system which acts as an intelligent control system regulating our appetite, what and...
News flash 30 Oct 20
News flash for Gbiota club members When the virus has gone, as it surely will, the world will be a very different place. People will understand that the best protection...
Gbiota easy
This is the easiest way I know to grow Gbiota food, it is dead simple and works fine but lacks the automated flood and drain features of a full blown...
Dis-enabling
Yesterday the world changed. New Zealand has an explosion of new Corona cases. NZ was a beacon of hope. This shows just how contagious this virus is and how we...
Choosing a Gbiota smoothie
The main aim of a Gbiota smoothie is to improve gut health but they also contain the minerals, vitamins and phytonutrients essential for health. The plants in all Gbiota smoothies...
Alernative food
Nutrition must be one of the most controversial, topics on the planet. Go on line and an ocean of confusing and contradicting views fuelled by inscrutable scientific data, dogma powered...
Creating an Alternative Food System
Nutrition must be one of the most controversial, topics on the planet. Go on line and an ocean of confusing and contradicting views fuelled by inscrutable scientific data, dogma powered...
Creating an Alternative Food System
Nutrition is among the most controversial, opinionated yet critical topics on the planet. We are suffering from an epidemic of diabetes, obesity with it’s associated heart attacks and dementia which...
Nundah cafe
Your meal should feed more than your taste buds—it should also nourish the trillions of cells in your gut that quietly look…
Gbiota club home
The aim of the Gbiota club is to make Gbiota food readily and widely available at an affordable price. Gbiota food is essential to feed our gut biology which forms...
About the Gbiota Club
When you join the Gbiota club you get a stronger gut, immune and hormonal system by eating real food grown in nutrient rich biologically active soil. We are a social...
Making soil work
We have the technical ability to grow food, which is convenient, taste good and is cheap in a way totally divorced from the conventional methods of food production, no longer...
Q&A15April20
I now live in Bundaberg, Queensland, the latitude is about 25 ° which is in the band of deserts around the world. The winter climate is as near to perfect...
Q and A
My specialist expertise is in how the way we grow our food affects our health. Eating fresh vegetables grown in specifics ways can improve gut health and strengthen our immune...
Germination
Wicking beds are highly productive and water efficient, the reason why they were so water efficient is that the surface soil was dry so there was minimal loss of water...
fresh food revolution
For consumers it will mean fresh produce full of the essential mineral, phytonutrients and beneficial biology which leads to a healthy gut biology which controls our appetite and immune system.
Pioneer
Colin Austin, recognised as among Australia’s top innovators, is using the internet to fight the diabesity epidemic with Gbiota food.
The Gbiota Movement
I want my grandchildren to live in a society where everyone, regardless of their financial state, have access to food which will make them healthy. It is simply not a...
Soil destruction
Soil is created by biological action but the wide spread use of chemicals and mechanisation is slowly but persistently destroying the soil on which human life depends.
Tipping
We know that the current ‘fat in the wrong places’ epidemic (diabetes, dementia and obesity) has only occurred in the last fifty years and there was no such epidemic when...
Micro farms
I get angry about the way a few wealthy people manipulate the truth for their benefit leading to health and climate catastrophes. But not Auntie Maud, if she were alive...
Why We Need a Biofoodies Group
For thousands of years life has been getting better, we live longer, are fitter, taller and stronger and we have gradually been overcoming infectious diseases. The graph of quality of...
Xiulan’s story
Xiulan was not particularly concerned when she was first diagnosed with diabetes. She was a doctor, actually a surgeon and gynaecologist and had confidence in the health system.
Truth vs Misinformation About Food
We live in an age of unbridled information, much of it conflicting so how do we know what it true and what is false – and why does it matter?...
Changing the Diabetes Paradigm
This post looks at the paradigm shift needed to change the way we treat type 2 diabetes.
Gbiota beds – manual
living manual for building GBiota beds
Food for health
Do we really want our kids to grow up fat and diabetic, mums need to be eating food that feeds their gut biology, that’s what this story is all about.
Food basics
Do we really want our kids to grow up fat and diabetic, mums need to be eating food that feeds their gut biology, that’s what this web site is all...
Food for health
Gbiotafood was developed to provide the trace minerals and beneficial biology essential to health but missing in our modern food system.
GBiota Green Smoothies
Dietary advice can appear to be totally confusing with so many different opinions low fat, low carb, low meat, low eggs etc. Some people will never get fat and sick...
Why you Should Join the Gbiota Movement
Our bodies naturally self regulate (Homeostasis) we don’t need to think about breathing or our heart rate. A healthy gut biology leads to natural self regulation so we don’t need...
Gbiota food for gut health
The Gbiota bed growing system was developed to provide an alternative to the high fat and sugar, low nutrient modern foods system which is leading to major health issues.
Rock Dust & Why Soil Biology Matters
Why Not Just Add Rock Dust? The amount of micro-nutrients humans need is tiny—often just a few micrograms. Meanwhile the planet holds…
Gbiota – Technology for the Benefit of Society
Humans are by far the most successful animal on earth for a simple reason: we have tools (technology) and we form cooperative…
Letter From China: Fermented Food, Gut Health, and Why We Age So Differently
I came to China to look for better ways to make fermented foods that support gut biology, because gut biology is a…
What an Ordinary Chinese Town Reveals About Diet, Gut Health, and Aging Well
This article describes careful observation — “gawking” — in Jiangkou, an unremarkable town in inland China, and what it reveals about health,…
Diabetes and the Eco-Village: Wicking Beds, Minerals, and Practical Recovery
Type 2 diabetes is when insulin struggles to move sugar out of the bloodstream and into the muscles and organs. This article…
Reversing Type 2 Diabetes the Yangtou Way
Many people are told Type 2 diabetes is permanent and will only worsen, but that message is often wrong. This article explains…
Stay at Our Gbiota Village: Practical Support for Diabetes Recovery
Spend a few weeks at our Gbiota village and improve your chances of reversing Type 2 diabetes. You will be supported by…
The Coach Scheme for Wicking Bed Technology
This article explains the Coach Scheme for wicking bed technology: why it exists, how it works, and what coaches do. It traces…
Healthy Food Association: Registry of Coaches
This registry is a simple public list of coaches connected to the Healthy Food Association. Coaches provide their own details by email,…
De-Boggling China: Food, Farming, and Health in a Rapidly Changing World
Halfway through a trip to China, Colin Austin is “de-boggling” — trying to separate real insights from quackery while looking for Chinese…
Gin Gin State School Wicking Bed Project: Educational Gardening for Schools
This community project at Gin Gin State School in Queensland brought teachers, students, parents and local volunteers together to build outdoor wicking…
The Future of Agriculture: Adapting Farming to Climate Change
This article is based on a talk Colin Austin — inventor of the wicking bed — gave during a China tour in September 2009.…
The Healthy Food Association: Growing Together for Better Health
This article introduces the Healthy Food Association, a non-profit community focused on improving health through nutrient-rich, biologically active soil and home-grown food.…
Intelligent Control
Why is it that we are in the midst of a health crisis? What I call the fat in the wrong places…
How Life Works
The Two Great Synergies Life is powered by the sun. Plants use sunlight to combine carbon from the air and hydrogen from…
Three Functions of Food
We often classify food by nutrients — carbohydrates, fats, proteins — but it is more useful to understand what food actually does…
Food and Innovation: How Modern Agriculture Changed Our Health
Innovation is often associated with digital technology — phones, electric cars, and automation. But one of the largest shifts has been…
The Principle of Gbiota Beds
The aim of the Gbiota system is to restore and maintain a healthy gut by growing plants that act as natural pre-…
Spreading the Benefits of Gbiota Beds
Home Gardeners There are already many local growers who could supply their neighbourhood with gut-healthy food. There are also many people displaced…
Adapting to the Food Crisis
The food crisis is not about empty shelves; it’s about food that’s energy-dense and nutrient-poor. That mismatch makes us heavier, sicker, and…
Choosing a Gbiota Smoothie
Minerals, Vitamins and Biology in Gbiota Smoothies The main aim of a Gbiota smoothie is to improve gut health, but they also…
Sugar Blockers
Gut Biology is Ever Changing Our gut biology shifts depending on what we eat. A typical modern diet encourages a gut biology…
History of Food
From Rocks to Soil About a billion years ago, microbiology began breaking down rock, releasing mineral sand forming soil. Plants grew, provided…