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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] Effective Microorganisms (EM) - tribe.net
  • Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:27:54 -0400

Effective Microorganisms (EM) - tribe.net
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Effective Microorganisms (EM)
public - created 03/23/06 Share your recipes, questions, uses, and
experiences with Effective Microorganisms (EM).

EM technology has now become a major science, assisting in the creation of
sustainable practices for agriculture, human health and hygiene, animal
husbandry, nature farming, environmental stewardship, disaster relief,
construction, industrial, community activities and more.

EM, aka effective microorganisms or efficient microbes, are a cluster of
beneficial organisms - developed by Dr. Teruo Higa, a horticultural
professor at U of Ryukus, Japan - which ferment organic matter in an
anti-oxidative way.

The essential basic technology of EM is a consortium of five or more
species of microorganisms, from across at least three classes of organisms,
in a synergistic culture (called a consortium) which produces lactic acid
under anaerobic fermentation and which also produces an environment (in the
liquid or plant matter under fermentation, etc.) which is highly
antioxidative and regenerative, or syntropic (aka anti-entropic) and which
contains numerous powerful antioxidants, largely produced by phototrophic
anaerobic bacteria known as purple non-sulfur bacteria (PNSB).

EM has found useful applications in the following areas, and likely many
more:

• agriculture: for conditioning soil, compost and plant wastes. It has been
proven that continued use of EM can convert a soil to a truly sustainable
type of soil, called a zymogenic soil
• agriculture: for feeding livestock, for waste treatment, for odor control
and pest management (e.g., flies);
• manages odors, improves feed utilization, improves health and vitality
• agriculture: for treating or controlling various fungal diseases or pests
of plants
• lawn maintenance: for treating soil and compost or organic fertilizers,
for preventing fusarium and molds
• buildings and architecture: to maintain healthy buildings and building
materials (lumber, concrete, plaster, etc.), to prevent "sick building
syndrome" and extend life of materials
• as a deodorizer for barns, waste treatment areas, homes, etc.
• as an aerosol spray deodorizer for home, agricultural and industrial use
• household: pets, odor control, treating pet wastes on floors, for shower
stalls, kitchen sinks, dishpans, garbage pails, toilets, drains, sinks,
sink drains, compost buckets, etc.
• human and animal use: ingestion of a wide range of antioxidative and
regenerative products made from EM, as a healthful probiotic and
antioxidant supplement
• waste treatment
• wastewater treatment
• septic waste treatment
• for remediation of polluted or unbalanced waterways, streams, bays, ponds
and lakes
• toxic waste remediation
• preparation of waste biomass material for bio-conversion into fuels such
as biodiesel and others

These beneficial phototrophic microorganisms are also used to make EM
ceramics, bokashi, EM-X ceramics, EM salt, antiox brews, fermented
antioxidant brews and many more products.

Please join a young movement and spread the word promoting this Earth
Saving Revolution.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effe...oorganisms<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_Microorganisms>
www.scdworld.com/documents...ndbook.pdf<http://www.scdworld.com/documents/emhandbook.pdf>

www.scdworld.com
www.emamerica.com
www.emtrading.com
www.beneficialandeffectivemicroorganisms.com

University of Okinawa research science paper - a good reference paper on
microorganisms in Organic farming: www.agriton.nl/higa.html

EM Technology Network - Effective Microorganisms Database of articles and
information: www.emtech.org



  • [permaculture] Effective Microorganisms (EM) - tribe.net, Lawrence London, 03/24/2013

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