Soil Regeneration for Healthy and Sustainable Wicking Beds
This article argues that human health and soil health are intimately linked: modern food often lacks essential minerals and phytochemicals because soils…
Soils to Supply Essential Nutrients
This newsletter explains why healthy soil is fundamental to healthy food and healthy people. It shows how modern processed food is full…
WickiMix Manual: Practical Guide to Soil and Bed Management
The WickiMix system is a practical soil management method designed for wicking beds, sponge beds, and conventional garden beds. By combining living…
Soil Biology — The Key to Healthy Soil and Nutrition
This article explains why soil biology is the foundation of healthy, fertile soil — not just chemistry or texture. Living soil, alive…
Real Soil — Why Soil Life Matters for Our Health
This article argues that true human health begins with living soil. It explains how modern processed‑food systems, intensive farming and sterile soils…
WickiMix: A Practical Approach to Living Soil
This article presents the principles of “WickiMix” soil preparation for wicking beds in a clear and memorable way. It explains how combining…
Soils, Minerals and Biological Health
This article explains why truly “living soil” is essential to good health. It describes how trace minerals, soil biology and proper soil…
The Gbiota Club — Growing Soil, Food, and Human Health
The Gbiota Club helps people grow nutrient-rich food using living soils. Members learn practical gardening and wicking bed techniques, improve soil biology,…
Transforming Parent Soils for Healthy Growing
This article explains how to turn basic soils — like clay, sand, or potting mix — into fertile, living soils for gardens…
How Nature Creates Soil: Understanding the Journey of Soil Formation Across the Earth
Soil is the foundation of life, yet often overlooked. Modern agriculture treats it as inert, managed by chemicals rather than understood as…
Growing for Health: A Community Guide to Nutrient-Dense Food Production
Growing for Health: A Community Guide to Nutrient-Dense Food Production This document is a condensed and reorganised version of the “Xiulan” material:…
The Development of Wicking Beds through Soil and Water Systems
The Development of Wicking Beds through Soil and Water Systems This blog explains how wicking beds were developed and why they work…
Gut Biology from Food
Gut Biology from Food This article explores how healthy soils and biologically active plants support human gut health. The GBiota system combines…
Soils to Grow Food That Will Make Us Healthy
This article explains how healthy soil supports plants that provide essential nutrients and phytonutrients for human health. By understanding and enhancing natural…
Living Soils, Fungal Composting and Health
The food we eat has a dramatic effect on our health. In the modern food system, mega corporations heavily promote highly processed…
How I Grow Wickimix
WickiMix is grown based on the practical observation that good soil is formed in the root zone of specific plants. My aim is…
Why WickiMix?
Modern humans are the end result of millions of years of evolution. Our food was generally low in energy, high in fibre…