1. Have a high diversity in microbes
2. Have a good carbon content.
3. Have a cover not to be exposed by direct sunlight.
4. Support any type of living plants.
5. Feed humans without the need for synthetic inputs.

They include bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists, some green algae, and viruses. They are of microscopic size with a very high diversity. They are living all around us. Microbes are everywhere.

Qualities of a distributor

1. Needs to be aligned with nature conservation to micro level.
2. Wants to live a healthy life and have a healthy family.
3. Must be a farmer with a conscience.
4. Must have his/her own organic garden.
5. Wants to be a farmer or have his/her own Bio organic garden.
6. Must love animals.
7. Must have communication skills.
8. Must be organized.
9. Must have a suitable place for storage that's cool and breezy.
10. There must be sufficient place to turn a 10 ton truck.
11. Have internet access.
12. Have farmer network membership.

A healthy crop is a crop that:

1. Have NO significant diseases or pests.
2. Have a extended root system.
3. Produce satisfactory yields.
4. Have high sugar levels (Brix).
5. Produce nutrient dense food.
6. Produce food that have exceptional taste.
7. Have significant soil aggregation around the roots.

A soil that can produce a healthy crop must have healthy microbes. There must be diversity in the microbes, mainly bacteria and fungi. In the beginning there should be diversity in the plants growing on top of that soil in order to generate diversity below. SBM creates that diversity instantly below and with the incorporation of organic materials in the form of crop residue or cover crops, food for the microbes are provided. So, inorganic fertilizers are not needed at all from day one. Crop residue is needed when the Carbon

The following bacterial groups in the subsoil provide most of what is needed for most crops.:

1. Streptomyces sp.
2. Bacillus sp.
3. Lactobacillus
4. Bradyrhizobium sp.
5. Rhizobium sp.
6. Bifidobacterium sp.
7. Glucoacetobacter sp.

Healthy soils have:

1. Diverse microbes from the top up to 1 meter deep.
2. Sufficient water penetration tempo.
3. Good water holding capacity.
4. The ability to sequestering carbon, by having the relevant bacteria present.
5. Proper nutrient cycling capacity, again by having the right microbes present.
6. Zero applications of inorganic fertilizer as it affect the sensitive microbes and thus diminish diversity.
7. Cover (dead or alive) and are exposed only for the minimum amount of time in a year.
8. We prefer a soil that have a Fungi to Bacteria ratio of less than 1, like 0.6 is good.

Want to do away with expensive inorganic fertilizers? Think about a 1000 year old Baobab tree! How does it get so big, or the missive Maroela tree in the National Park? There is not much around the base of the tree as all the baboons, Impala and elephants hang about eating the fruits and leaves. Sometimes it is very dry with little rain. So compost does not play a big role. Then it must be something deeper that feed the tree. It is all about the microbes, mainly bacteria deeper than the topsoil. It is cooler there. Hair roots die and regenerate with the change of seasons. Microbes turn the dead roots into organic nutrients (Humus). When the rain comes the tree absorb it again and grow new shoots, flowers and fruits without applications of inorganic fertilizers. The difference with row crops is instead of 364 days that the tree have, the row crop have only 3 to 4 months to complete the growing cycle. SBM speed up the cycle to suit the crop by adding high populations of microbes in the beginning of the growing cycle. This convert the organic material (dead roots) into organic nutrients (Humus), not compost which is mineralized organic material. Soils with low carbon content needs more organic materials incorporated to fulfill in the needs of the crop. No less than 5 groups of bacteria are needed to fulfill in the crops nutritional needs.

Microbes is a group of bacteria, fungi, algae and protozoa that lives in the soil and around us. Viruses are sometimes classified as microorganisms.