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["gil carandang" <gil_carandang@hotmail.com>]

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> From: "gil carandang" <gil_carandang@hotmail.com>
> To: gil_carandang@hotmail.com
> Subject: Fwd: [SANET-MG] Technology Culture of Indigenous Microorganisms
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:29:19 +0000
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> > From: gil carandang <gil_carandang@HOTMAIL.COM>
> > Reply-To: Sustainable Agriculture Network Discussion Group              
> > <SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU>
> > To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU
> > Subject: [SANET-MG] Technology Culture of Indigenous Microorganisms
> > Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 16:20:12 +0000
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> > Hi all!
> > Since I mentioned to my e-mail to Dr.. Elaine Ingham about the culture of
> > indigenous microorganisms for agriculture, a lot of people have e-mailed 
> > me
> > on the booklet.  I am then posting the details on this booklet:
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> > Technology of Culturing Beneficial Indigenous Microorganisms and
> > Bionutrients for use in Agricultural Crops and Livestock
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> > Last January 23, 2003 Gil Carandang of Herbana Farms, a leading organic 
> > and
> > natural farming advocate from the Philipines and who recently completed
> > Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture at the University  of California
> > Santa Cruz, had just conducted a workshop on Indigenous Microorganism:  
> > Grow
> > Your Own at the annual Ecological Farming Conference in Asilomar 
> > (Monterey,
> > California) on full-packed crowd.
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> > Indigenous Microorganisms (IMO):  Grow Your Own
> > The recent interest in building microorganism populations for fertility 
> > and
> > pathogen control has given many farmers food for thought.  Compost teas 
> > are
> > now becoming extremely high in concentrations of beneficial 
> > microorganisms.
> > This interest is not so new in Asian countries, however, where "Nature
> > Farming" and "Effective Microorganisms" or EM Technology has been popular
> > for years.  Buying starter cultures of beneficiaal microorganisms can be
> > expensive for farmers.  Now a relatively new movement is empowering 
> > farmers
> > with knowledge about culturing, increasing and applying local or
> > "indigenous" on-farm beneficial microorganisms.  Learn the basic theory 
> > and
> > techniques for growing these farming companions to help increase yields 
> > and
> > reduce problems.
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> > "The best workshop I had in 18 years!"
> > - Jim Nelson
> >  Camp Joy Gardens
> >  Boulder Creek, California
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> > Learn to culture Lacto Bacilli, the workhorse of the beneficial indigenous
> > microorganisms.  Lacto Bacilli arrest foul odors and improve digestion,
> > nutrient intake.
> > -Forest microorganism.  Culture diversed, powerful beneficial indigenous
> > microorganisms from the forest and apply them to your garden and farm and
> > improve soil fertility.
> > -Beneficial Indigenous Microorganisms produce enzymes and natural 
> > antibiotic
> > that control pathogens like e. coli and salmonella.
> > -Bionutrients.  Fermented plant extracts to improve soil fertilty, control
> > pests and diseases, increase microbial diversity and ecology.
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> > Did you know that you can gather plants in your farm and use them as
> > fermented extracts to improve plant growth serving as natural growth
> > promotants?
> > ... and many more!
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> > The booklet on this amazing natural farming technology is now available.
> > You can organize your own workshop to learn this Asian Natural Farming
> > technology empowering farmers, self-generating their own inputs through 
> > the
> > culture of these Beneficial Indigenous Microorganisms and Bionutrients.  
> > Gil
> > Carandang can be reached through e-mail: gil_carandang@hotmail.com
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