Dr.Teruo Higa’s
Living A Dream

The pandemic caused by the coronavirus forced us to make changes in our EM promotion activities. Various lectures and conferences have changed from in-person format to using Zoom, which has significantly reduced costs and time, but also gave us the opportunity to engage in fundamental changes.

EM can be quite versatile if its quantum properties are utilized, but common sense persists in believing that the “all-powerful" does not exist” and is a fake idea.

EM is now used all over the world in the fields of agriculture and the environment. The unimaginable EM bashing of the past, which insisted that EM is "pseudo-science,” has disappeared.

The key to taking advantage of EM’s quantum mechanical versatility is to use it in a way that improves its functionality throughout the year. In other words, we must not only provide lectures and training sessions, but also provide on-site demonstrations of its use.

The creation of the Universal Village model being promoted by the EM Research Organization and United Networks for Earth Environment (U-net), a nonprofit organization, is an advanced development of EM activities. This is based on the vital need for a Copernican-level reform, a change from the conventional use of EM in conventional farming methods to a method of farming that is adapted to the versatility of EM.

The most important thing is that the soil microbiota must be EM-enhanced and managed in a stable manner over a period of time. To do this, spread a thin, wider layer of organic matter such as weeds, leaves, kitchen waste, etc., over the soil, and then spray activated EM liquid diluted with water to 1:50-100 and apply it on top until the entire area is moistened. At the same time, continue no-till continuous cultivation. Even in cold winters you still can improve the microbial flora by applying 50 to 100 kg of salt and 10 to 500 liters of activated EM liquid per 10 ares before the snow piles up.

At Blue Sky Palace, as I previously introduced (see No. 182) I have created a permanent planting squares with a barrier function and I am continuously growing tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, etc., and am committed to no-tillage. Potatoes and other crops can be cultivated by simply applying EM Bokashi and activated EM liquid in the furrows and putting potatoes in, then covering them with about 5 cm of weeds.

Photo 1 shows the tomatoes introduced in article No. 189. I have already harvested over 500 of them, and they have grown into a hedge of tomatoes.

Lettuce is planted at the base of tomato plants, and as shown in Photo 3, old leaves are removed and spread on the surface as shown in Photo 3.

Photo 6: The center row in Photo 6 is an experiment in self-seeding potatoes. At the same time as planting, I applied a 5-6 cm layer of weed mulch.

Photo 7 shows the condition after one month. This method can be applied as an intercrop after harvesting sugarcane, and as with the cultivating method of simply putting potatoes on the soil with covering mulch without digging holes, you can harvest them without digging them.
 

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I have already reported on Typhoon No. 6 and how the all the plants recovered very quickly afterwards, and there are many realities that, based on past experience, should be impossible (since it usually takes 2 to 3 years for recovery), and here I would like to introduce some of them. As always, a variety of stray birds are coming to Okinawa this winter. Groups of cormorants are also gradually growing larger, proof of abundant food sources here.