Managing Director of Microbz
Katie Ward
Biography
Katie is the Managing Director of microbz, a family-run business based in Wiltshire that makes probiotics from organic soil. She is an advocate for a probiotic life and an expert for anyone looking to use probiotics in place of the chemicals and antibacterial products. Katie grew up learning about fermenting soil microbes and how to use them in various aspects of life, from gut health to cleaning to growing plants and vegetables. She has seen many problems solved using natural soil-based probiotics and beneficial microbes and now uses these in all aspects of her life with her young children.
Katie is passionate about the heart of the business—trusting nature, bringing nature back into our lives, and rewilding our guts and environments with the invisible microbial life that we rely on to survive and thrive. More recently, microbz has been working with regenerative farmers, providing solutions for soil health and livestock health with the aim of bringing nutrient density back to British foods.
Katie oversees the hand-brewing of all products in a small factory in Wiltshire with a brilliant team of microbe enthusiasts.
Speaking Session
From Soil to Self: How Microbes Support Life to Thrive
Katie Ward from Microbz discusses the link between regenerated soils, nutrient dense food and gut health.
There is a world of microorganisms that lives inside you and all around you and these microbes do a lot of essential jobs for your health and the health of the planet.
Join Katie to find out how microbes in the gut are essential to digest food, improve immunity, reduce inflammation and produce hormones and essential chemicals for the brain. We will also widen this lens to include discussing how microbes work in soil and how essential they are for our food and farming systems.