GoodMicrobes Digest
Volume 1 Issue 1, March 2013
Welcome to the first edition of the GoodMicrobes Digest.
In this issue,
1. The new goodmicrobes.org website
2. An Introduction to EM (Effective Microorganisms)
3. Tips and Tricks
4. Reading the website, bit by bit: Why EM
5. Announcements
1. The new goodmicrobes.org website
The goodmicrobes.org website has been completely redone. It's almost all text-only with lots more to be done: photos, videos, articles, references, etc. Goodmicrobes.org focuses on EM (and some general information on microorganisms) except for the recycling of food waste, which is done as a separate but connected site at recyclefoodwaste.org. Both websites will continue to be maintained by volunteer(s).
Visit goodmicrobes.org for Events, Why EM, How To's, etc.
2. An Introduction to EM (Effective Microorganisms)
Microorganisms are the core of life and the natural geoengineers that helped form and condition earth for life. Even though other vital organisms, such as, earthworms are essential to the life of soils, without microorganisms, earthworms will not function well, if at all. Earthworms, worms in general, insects, larvae, and really all plants and animals, macro-scopic and other microscopic organisms, either eat or rely on microorganisms. As we continue to negatively rely too much on chemistry, rather than biology, understanding and using microorganisms become crtical to re-sync with nature and to restore our polluted world.
Continue reading online ...
3. Tips and Tricks
After you have experienced making Activated EM and the different EM-5 recipes, you should see a pattern in the ingredients. With the base ingredients being EM-1 and blackstrap molasses, and in some cases using an alternative to molasses, you can experiment with a wide variety of additional ingredients. Go kitchen-grade, and you can start Fermenting with EM for Human Consumption.
4. Reading the website, bit by bit: Why EM
Why EM (Effective Microorganisms)
When there is a solution that does so much, beyond current reasonableness, it must be questioned. And it must be questioned not only by the measures of others, but by one's own personal, direct observations and experiences, particularly over the course of time.
Since its discovery in 1982 by a professor of horticulture, the use of EM has evolved from a way to stop relying on agricultural chemicals to resolving the problems of environmental contamination and understanding our connection of health with nature at the microbial level.
EM has gradually become a significant connector, or re-connector, to life and nature by people everywhere, especially the "non-experts", as society still continues in the direction that tries to wrestle and control nature. EM has shown, and continues to show in new areas, to be a low tech, low cost means with quality outputs with energy coming from nature itself (the interactions of microbes with other life and the elements). "Money does not grow on trees, but edible nuts and fruits do, freely provided by nature." With minimal human management and caring, and with the understanding and use of such things as EM, abundance can be achieved without having to fabricate and control the input and output (GMO's, chemical additives, chemical manipulations, geoengineering, etc.)
Click here to see the whole webpage this reading part is from.
5. Announcements
Mark your calendar for March and April:
March 15, 2013 Friday 7-9 pm
Introduction to Effective Microorganisms and Pickling Food Waste
at The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS)
155 Avenue C (between 9th & 10th St), New York NY
Free/Suggested Donation
morusnyc.org
March 21, April 18, 2013 Thursdays 6-9 pm
Sustainable Jersey City Green Drinks + ART
There will be an EM Bokashi tabling at this event.
at the Culinary Conference Center at Hudson County Community College
161 Newkirk St, Building E (by Sip Ave), Jersey City, NJ
$10.00
SustainableJC.org
March 23, April 6 & 20, 2013, Saturdays 12-2:30 pm
Recycling Food Waste Using The Bokashi Method
Workshop Series presented by Sustainable Jersey City
in partnership with the P.E.A.C.E. Community Garden & St Paul's Center for Caring
at St. Paul Lutheran Church
440 Hoboken Ave (off Five Corners), Jersey City, NJ
$10.00 per person (includes materials)
SustainableJC.org
For further details and updates, visit goodmicrobes.org/events.html
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