Healthy Soil Biomes Charitable LLC

A living soil is key to removing CO2 from the air and putting carbon deep in soil where it helps nutrient rich plants thrive. We will work with many other entities to empower farmers to use Healthy Soil Biome practices such as the Biologically Enhanced Agricultural Management (BEAM) approach which includes the Johnson-Su bioreactors. These result in a diverse community of bacteria and fungi required for a healthy soil. Thirty acres of cropland converted from conventional agriculture to have healthy soil can remove 1 ton of CO2 each day from the air and put critical carbon deep in the soil where plants use it to thrive. 400 million acres (less than 10% of the worlds cropland) converted to healthy soil practices can remove 10 gigatons of CO2 from the air each year. Side benefits: increased crop yields, more farm profit, more water absorption, and nutrient rich crops for healthy people.  

Eight million people affected: Climate change, desertification, deforestation, farm community economic collapse, water pollution, our health!

Climate change: Ten gigatons per year of CO2 to be removed from the air each year to avert disaster. 400 million acres converted to healthy soil will solve this. Desertification: 49,400,000 million acres of land are abandoned each year due to soil erosion, diminished fertility, and salinization. Cropland losing topsoil at rates 6-10 times greater than the rate of soil formation. Deforestation: To compensate for future loss of croplands, rain forests will be cleared, representing losses 60% greater than the deforestation now occurring worldwide. Farm community economic collapse: Abandoned croplands wreak havoc on local economies globally, many of which depend on subsistence farming for livelihoods. These negative effects are spreading to more prosperous communities and industrial countries. Water pollution: Reduced water absorption in unhealthy soil increases runoff 5 times from healthy soil. Topsoil is lost. Flooding. Oil based fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides pollute waterways. Our health! Nutrient food loss is a major cause of poor health throughout the world. Healthy soils produce nutrient rich food. Our solution: Restoring nature’s fungal dominate practices is key to supporting a successful, healthy, and peaceful world!

Our solution is to empower farmers worldwide to create healthy soil biomes on their land. Our alliance of all entities focusing on soil biology will make available easily consumed and digested specific solutions for their soil in their climate.  Healthy Soil Biome practices, such as BEAM and the Johnson-Su bioreactor are simple low-cost solutions to create the required natural fungal dominate soil biomes. For about $45 for materials farmers create the bioreactor. The bioreactors are filled with various materials such as straw, leaves, manure, etc. This no-turn, static, aerobic compost is more efficient than fertilizer because it restores soil by recreating a diverse community with a foundation of microscopic creatures. The fungal-dominant compost creates a soil system that mimics natural biological processes that have evolved over 4.2 billion years. The bioreactor takes a year to ripen the fungal dominant compost. During the first growing season, farmers can: 1) safely remove CO2 from the air and beneficially use carbon in the soil 2) improve farm/ranch productivity and profitability, and 3) reduce agriculture’s impact on the environmental. A powerful solution!

Eight million people are benefited! A focus is on small farmers that require healthy crop yields to survive. Another focus is on large corporate farms that impact millions of acres of land. Neither group is aware of the recently discovered natural methods of increasing crop yields through healthy soil biomes. New technology has allowed us to uncover these methods, confirm their effectiveness and disseminate specific solutions worldwide.

Major mindset changes are required.  Change is hard in a profession often handed down from generation to generation. An aggregation of all entities focusing on the biology in the soil will help spread information to a more receptive audience (early adopters). From there more people can see the benefits and adopt the practices.

Tools we are developing to help farmers understand and adopt these new soil biology methods that are made possible by neural networks and artificial intelligence include:

• Consistent expert information about soil biology easily accessible through video questions and StoryFile video answers.
• Quick and inexpensive testing of soil biology.
• Digital farm advisor.

Our demographic lacks the proper resources to information, tools, methods, and mechanisms that will assist them in making informed decisions regarding their farming practices. We are striving to create a multitude of solutions to communicate and engage the most effectively to individuals on a global scale. We encourage adaptable solutions and believe the intertwine of technology and our knowledgeable, passionate team will accurately assist in communicating and informing the public of the advantages of Healthy Soil Biomes. 

Conventional farmers and agricultural communities are struggling to financially stay afloat and maintain their livelihoods due to conventional farming “solutions” causing a depletion of their soils. Using chemicals such as fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides are not allowing a diverse microbial community to flourish in the soil. Switching from conventional to sustainable and abundant agriculture will allow the soil to capture more CO2, which increases its ability to store water, withstand various weather conditions, create more nutrient-rich produce, crop, and yield. All of these benefits of creating healthy soil biomes will increase their profit and in turn assist with their livelihoods.

Poor diet is a main contributor for diseases, death, and micro-nutrient deficiencies in developing countries. These countries lack the transportation and finances to afford proper, nutritious food. Decreasing or eliminating fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides, while using the Johnson-Su compost gives soil the opportunity to work on restoring its microorganism community and allows for more nutrient-rich produce. The livelihoods of impoverished communities rely on the prosperity of produce and nutrition from their local farms, so using the low-cost Johnson-Su compost is detrimental for assisting with developmental deficiencies, digestive systems, and decreasing malnutrition diseases. 

Climate change contributes to the increase in extreme weather conditions such as droughts, heatwaves, blizzards, and flooding. These are all contributing factors to soil degradation and food production. The more CO2 that Healthy Soil Biome methods can capture from the atmosphere means the decrease in climate change and an increase in stable weather conditions. Allowing farmers to produce more nutrient-rich crops and yields. 30 acres of farmland that is using the Johnson-Su compost can sequester 1 ton of CO2 per day. Global experts estimate that over the next 20 years 100 gigatons of CO2 needs to be removed from the air to avoid climate change disasters. Healthy Soil Biomes can achieve this goal with 400 million acres of land using the Johnson-Su compost for the next 20 years.  Although 400 million acres seems like a large amount of land to apply the compost on, it is less than 10% of the 4.5 billion worldwide agricultural land. Healthy Soil Biomes can dramatically reduce climate change by scaling globally, while creating a healthier soil/ecosystem. Helping solve climate change can dramatically affect the lives of farmers and agricultural communities that are affected by extreme weather conditions.

It may be difficult for some people to imagine water scarcity being a global concern, however it is.  People in developing countries are currently experiencing water shortages, which is leading to a lack of nutrition/hygiene, disease, and death. Environmentalists are trying to create solutions to prevent this shortage, but many are struggling due to the need for collaboration between cities, states, and countries. The next contributor to water scarcity is water waste. It is very common for farmers to use an excess of their irrigation systems to help with crop and yield growth, however this is caused by an unhealthy soil that lacks a diverse microorganism community. The soil community can be restored by the aerobic, Johnson-Su compost allowing for 5 times more water storage. This will not only assist with decreasing water scarcity, but it can decrease farmers’ water use and bill. 

We are currently working with a technology company to create a qualitative, narrative system that will allow our online users to receive answers to their specific questions using a keyword search engine and AI integration. The answers will be given by pre-recorded interviews with some of our great team members. These members consist of molecular biologists, soil scientists, farmers, and retired CEO/Executive Directors of agricultural organizations. Many people that are interested in soil health tend to be skeptical of switching from conventional to sustainable agricultural methods due to a fear of negatively impacting their livelihood.. Conventional methods have been promoted and passed down through generations, however due to the decrease in soil health and crop/yield production, individuals are desperate for a solution.  This technology will distribute valuable information to our users through great research results, and data in an engaging, relatable, and conversational method.

To engage with our demographic, we are in the process of creating an informational, interactive, virtual soil health management gaming system. This application will allow users to virtually experience and see the advantages of using Healthy Soil Biome practices compared to conventional farming methods. This system will create another educational tool that will assist with users to make an informative decision regarding the advantages of creating a diverse microbial soil community. 

Healthy Soil Biomes understands there is a huge demographic that can benefit from implementing the Johnson-Su bioreactor, however many might lack the energy and time to create the bioreactor or wait for the fungal dominant compost to be produced. To assure we are able to empower people on a global scale we are currently working on creating an affordable bioreactor kit to sell to farmers as well as the Johnson-Su compost, so farmers do not have to wait a year for the compost to be produced.

Healthy Soil Biomes Charitable LLC is providing an empowerment platform that is continuously finding solutions to reach individuals globally. We are using the science technology from BEAM that recreates diverse microorganism communities in the soil. Restoring soil health affects underserved individuals worldwide that are struggling to find solutions for the effects of soil degradation such as, decline in crop/yield production, water/food scarcity, nutrition, and climate change. Our solution allows for projects to be created with an ability for economic opportunities, financial gains, restoration of ecosystems, carbon sequestration and eventually verified monitoring and data collection.

Healthy Soil Biomes charitable LLC is at the growth stage with the Johnson-Su bioreactor/compost established in a variety of communities globally. A team member, The Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems (CRARS) at CSU, Chico has created a Bioreactor Registry, which allows individuals to enter their process and results from the bioreactor. Currently we have team members that are continuing research to prove the sequestration rate of CO2 using the Johnson-Su compost, a low-cost identification/labeling mechanism that will assist with soil testing, and an easier way to measure CO2 from the soil. New smaller and easier versions of the bioreactor as well as larger versions are in development. Strategies, methods, and the Healthy Soil Biomes website are under development to expand and engage globally.

Our solution provides an improved approach to empowering individuals about soil health as well as creating efficient solutions to restoring soils. Healthy Soil Biomes is integrating technology in way that will not only assist with evaluating soil health but will assist with engaging our audience members. Our audience is extremely busy and does not always have the time to learn new information as well as spend the time analyzing research. Our demographic does not always have the resources or experience to analyze documents and statistical findings, so one of our goals is to assure we are creating easily consumable and digestible resources that will assist them in understanding all the benefits of restoring their soil not only for themselves but for our world’s ecosystem. BEAM practices such as the Johnson-Su bioreactor and compost is the best solution for restoring soil health, due to the materials and process being simple and low cost. The bioreactor and compost will allow the soil to reform is diverse microbial community which will allow the farmers and impoverished communities relying on their local farms to have better water absorption, crop/yield increase, carbon sequestration, increase in profit, and increase in healthier produce.

It is hard to say exactly how many we are currently serving due to the system in place that tracks the bioreactor registry. However, individuals worldwide have created the bioreactor and are either waiting for the compost or have implemented the compost and are waiting for the diverse microorganism soil community. We hope to be serving a larger global audience and have more bioreactors being built within the next year in established countries. In a year a lot of our technology integration will be implemented, and this will help us gain more traction and sustainable agricultural enthusiasts due to us providing more knowledgeable resources. In five years, we should have several demonstration farms, the manufacturing of our bioreactor kits as well as the Johnson-Su inoculant that we will have been able to distribute for about 1-2 years. These methods will allow us to serve a lot more individual in established countries and other ones as well.

A lot of our technology integration has the ability for us to track our users use, questions, comments, and most common videos. This will help us to determine if there is something we or our pre-recorded interviews are not answering. We will analyze the statistics that the AI and machine learning systems will track and determine if we have been successful and continue with our plan or if we need to revise our system slightly or dramatically. Another way we are measuring our progress is through the CRARS 5-year research. This research is crucial to gaining more traction from researchers, scientists, larger corporations, or even government aided agencies. A more efficient, accessible soil analysis test is developing and will assist our users to determining their soil health and finding the best solutions to restore their soil, increase their crop, profit, water absorption and create better nutrient-rich produce.

2 people work for HSB, however one alliance member, (Chico's CRARS) has a variety of people working for them including, researchers, soil scientists, professors etc. The founder is not looking to make profit but continue providing funds for effective engagement, outreach, and research to assist with transitioning to sustainable agriculture.

Our team has a variety of backgrounds, skills, and knowledge that allow us to find the best solutions for farmers, impoverished communities, and developing countries. Founder of HSB, is a civil engineer and has much experience in project management, consulting, and working for county entities/programs. An assistant/project manager has a BA in Psychology with an emphasis in I.O. Psychology. Both have experience organizing, planning, and analyzing problems to create effective solutions. The CRARS team has a larger variety of members with their own experience in conventional farming, regenerative agriculture, previous organic employees, microbiologist, scientists, and researchers. Due to HSB having a technology integration we have several other contractors that are experts in AI/machine learning, marketing, graphic design, software developers, and much more. We have many passionate, intelligent, and experienced individuals that all have their own personal/professional experiences that allow us to find a variety of methods to engage and empower individuals. We have several individuals who have part of our underserved demographic or have years working with our demographic and their personal experience and input truly assists with guiding our projects to assist we are providing effective resources such as easier to digest language, engaging communication through technology/outreach, long-term soil carbon removal research, more accessible solutions of BEAM approaches (such as the Johnson Su bioreactors).  

Our solution’s leadership team truly embodies diversity, inclusion, and equity and strives to maintain these values throughout HSBs life. Our team and alliance members come from all backgrounds and ethnicities. We have team members that have lived in impoverished communities and others that have lived in more prosperous communities. We have a variety of men and women that all feel comfortable sharing any suggestions, comments, and concerns. Healthy Soil Biomes felt having an alliance with organizations and individuals that are passionate or working on soil health was the best way for us to solve all the problems stemmed from an unhealthy soil. We value everyone’s opinions and experiences and know that everyone plays a major part in changing the mindsets of individuals to have healthy, cost effective agriculture methods. Since our demographic is a wide range of people we are focusing on reaching globally we feel is is important to create an environment that values its team members while using their personal and professional experiences to create the most effective and effective solutions for our demographic while restoring our ecosystems.

Healthy Soil Biomes Charitable LLC is applying to Solve to win the Resilient Ecosystems Global Challenge Competition. We are hoping in gaining this great partnership with Solve and properly utilize its resources to further accomplish our goal. We know that if we win, we will get the opportunity to converse with intelligent and experienced individuals that can assist in creating more engaging and efficient solutions for our underserved communities. We value this process the most, but we would also like to win the prize money to assist us in accomplishing our endeavors towards transitioning to sustainable agriculture.

We mostly need partners in support with monitoring/evaluation as well as product/service distribution. To gain more support and traction with researchers, scientists, and more organizations we need a lot of valid data to show the accuracy and success of our digital platform as well as with the BEAM approach. One of our alliance teams is working on research, however if we were able to have more individuals that could start another research project doing the same thing in a different location this will show more people the positive success rate of our system. We also need assistance with distributing the Johnson-Su compost and finding the best service method that will allow us to ship the product in the most successful and efficient solution. Gaining support from someone who is knowledgeable in the product and distribution field will be so helpful. We could use their expertise on the proper process they recommend we should do so we can use our time efficiently as well as provide an accessible product to individuals globally. 

We would love to work with a variety of individuals in different fields because we feel they can all bring some type of resources, assistance, and advice. Some people and organizations we would love to work with are:

Renee Vassilos, Pallavi Phartiyal, Roelie Kloppers, Susan Gardner,  Alasdair Harris, Heng Dean Law, Jane Zelikova, Marcela Angel Ford Foundation, Gabe Brown

All of these individuals could dramatically help with their own expertise either in the field of agriculture, research, project managing, product strategies, manufacturing, environmental solutions and so much more. All of these great skills and knowledges can assist us with the manufacturing process as well as creating new solutions we can implement in our platform. These individuals can assist in guiding us towards different efficient data analysis and validation methods as well as find solutions for our current risks and future potential risks.

We qualify for the GM Prize because Healthy Soil Biomes is focusing on transitioning people to sustainable agriculture, which creates a healthier/safer ecosystem (increase in water absorption/healthier soils), atmosphere (sequestration of CO2), and sustainable communities that can rely more on their farms and crop/yield production to be stable. 

Eight million people are benefited!  A focus is on small farmers that require healthy crop yields to survive. Another focus is on large corporate farms that impact millions of acres of land. Neither group is aware of the recently discovered natural methods of increasing crop yields through healthy soil biomes. New technology has allowed us to uncover these methods, confirm their effectiveness and disseminate specific solutions worldwide.

Major mindset changes are required.  Change is hard in a profession often handed down from generation to generation. An aggregation of all entities focusing on the biology in the soil will help spread information to a more receptive audience (early adopters). From there more people can see the benefits and adopt the practices.

Tools we are developing to help farmers understand and adopt these new soil biology methods that are made possible by neural networks and artificial intelligence include:

• Consistent expert information about soil biology easily accessible through video questions and StoryFile video answers.
• Quick and inexpensive testing of soil biology.
• Digital farm advisor.

Our demographic lacks the proper resources to information, tools, methods, and mechanisms that will assist them in making informed decisions regarding their farming practices. We are striving to create a multitude of solutions to communicate and engage the most effectively to individuals on a global scale. We encourage adaptable solutions and believe the intertwine of technology and our knowledgeable, passionate team will accurately assist in communicating and informing the public of the advantages of Healthy Soil Biomes. 

Conventional farmers and agricultural communities are struggling to financially stay afloat and maintain their livelihoods due to conventional farming “solutions” causing a depletion of their soils. Using chemicals such as fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides are not allowing a diverse microbial community to flourish in the soil. Switching from conventional to sustainable and abundant agriculture will allow the soil to capture more CO2, which increases its ability to store water, withstand various weather conditions, create more nutrient-rich produce, crop, and yield. All of these benefits of creating healthy soil biomes will increase their profit and in turn assist with their livelihoods.

Poor diet is a main contributor for diseases, death, and micro-nutrient deficiencies in developing countries. These countries lack the transportation and finances to afford proper, nutritious food. Decreasing or eliminating fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides, while using the Johnson-Su compost gives soil the opportunity to work on restoring its microorganism community and allows for more nutrient-rich produce. The livelihoods of impoverished communities rely on the prosperity of produce and nutrition from their local farms, so using the low-cost Johnson-Su compost is detrimental for assisting with developmental deficiencies, digestive systems, and decreasing malnutrition diseases. 

Climate change contributes to the increase in extreme weather conditions such as droughts, heatwaves, blizzards, and flooding. These are all contributing factors to soil degradation and food production. The more CO2 that Healthy Soil Biome methods can capture from the atmosphere means the decrease in climate change and an increase in stable weather conditions. Allowing farmers to produce more nutrient-rich crops and yields. 30 acres of farmland that is using the Johnson-Su compost can sequester 1 ton of CO2 per day. Global experts estimate that over the next 20 years 100 gigatons of CO2 needs to be removed from the air to avoid climate change disasters. Healthy Soil Biomes can achieve this goal with 400 million acres of land using the Johnson-Su compost for the next 20 years.  Although 400 million acres seems like a large amount of land to apply the compost on, it is less than 10% of the 4.5 billion worldwide agricultural land. Healthy Soil Biomes can dramatically reduce climate change by scaling globally, while creating a healthier soil/ecosystem. Helping solve climate change can dramatically affect the lives of farmers and agricultural communities that are affected by extreme weather conditions.

It may be difficult for some people to imagine water scarcity being a global concern, however it is.  People in developing countries are currently experiencing water shortages, which is leading to a lack of nutrition/hygiene, disease, and death. Environmentalists are trying to create solutions to prevent this shortage, but many are struggling due to the need for collaboration between cities, states, and countries. The next contributor to water scarcity is water waste. It is very common for farmers to use an excess of their irrigation systems to help with crop and yield growth, however this is caused by an unhealthy soil that lacks a diverse microorganism community. The soil community can be restored by the aerobic, Johnson-Su compost allowing for 5 times more water storage. This will not only assist with decreasing water scarcity, but it can decrease farmers’ water use and bill. 

We are currently working with a technology company to create a qualitative, narrative system that will allow our online users to receive answers to their specific questions using a keyword search engine and AI integration. The answers will be given by pre-recorded interviews with some of our great team members. These members consist of molecular biologists, soil scientists, farmers, and retired CEO/Executive Directors of agricultural organizations. Many people that are interested in soil health tend to be skeptical of switching from conventional to sustainable agricultural methods due to a fear of negatively impacting their livelihood.. Conventional methods have been promoted and passed down through generations, however due to the decrease in soil health and crop/yield production, individuals are desperate for a solution.  This technology will distribute valuable information to our users through great research results, and data in an engaging, relatable, and conversational method.

To engage with our demographic, we are in the process of creating an informational, interactive, virtual soil health management gaming system. This application will allow users to virtually experience and see the advantages of using Healthy Soil Biome practices compared to conventional farming methods. This system will create another educational tool that will assist with users to make an informative decision regarding the advantages of creating a diverse microbial soil community. 

Healthy Soil Biomes understands there is a huge demographic that can benefit from implementing the Johnson-Su bioreactor, however many might lack the energy and time to create the bioreactor or wait for the fungal dominant compost to be produced. To assure we are able to empower people on a global scale we are currently working on creating an affordable bioreactor kit to sell to farmers as well as the Johnson-Su compost, so farmers do not have to wait a year for the compost to be produced.

If we won the GM prize it would assist with our advancement by assisting underserving and impoverished communities create the Johnson-Su bioreactors. This could include finances, communication, transportation for material, and one on one interaction through the process.

Healthy Soil Biomes Charitable LLC is qualified for this prize due to our ability to connect communities through the use of sustainable agricultural methods and the decline of chemicals/conventional farming methods can sequester carbon from the atmosphere and implement it in the soil. This assists in creating a more diverse microbial community that allows for more carbon sequestration and an increase in crop/yield, healthier food, water absorption, and higher profits for farmers. We would use this prize to advance our solution by assisting underserved communities create a bioreactor on their property by giving them the resources they need. Normally this would include finances, communication, transportation for material, and one on one interaction through the process.