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you also change the weather. The trees will change the precipita- tion in the areas to feed the people.” Carlson also understands that people fed with nutritious food from their own land will not only help those societies to live but to flourish. “Any child that undergoes malnutrition doesn't have the mental ability to be as smart as its parents," he says. "If you go in and bring all this food you're going to change the mental abilities thus allowing these people to lead themselves ‘out of the land of Babel’." The Sonic Bloom plan does not end there. Carlson also believes his product can help to cure one of the Earth's most detrimental environmental ailments—deforestation. In Mexico, Carlson has started a tropical hardwood nursery for rare tropical trees. He has also brought Sonic Bloom to Papua New Guinea, where he hopes to help improve the teak, ebony and rosewood harvests while pro- viding slash-and-burn farmers with alternatives to growing food in poor soil. . Carlson even includes the psychological and spiritual well-being of people in his plans. He feels that giving all people, no matter what their age or geographic location, the ability to grow crops suc- cessfully will add to their mental health. "The beauty is watching the twinkle in some 33-75-pound child's eyes when they raise a 400-pound pumpkin,” states Carlson. "We believe that then they will always be involved in agriculture and their self-esteem and self-love will go up like crazy.” Dan Carlson has watched his Sonic Bloom create amazing trans- formations like this for years. Reports of double- and triple-sized harvests came from as far away as Europe to as close as his own nut farm in River Falls, Wisconsin. Oliver Doubleday, a strawber- ry farmer in rural England, consistently reports triple yields with Sonic Bloom. The Circle K Apple Orchard, just six miles from Carlson's farm, also reports triple-sized harvests. In addition, the orchard is reporting an eight-month shelf-life and a vast increase in nutrients. "When we did our analysis we came up with 1750% more zinc, 400% more iron, 326% more chromium, and 126% more potassium, all of these things being kcy ingredients in longevity, health and mental activity." The orchard also finds that the number of apples lost to disease and insects is reduced by over 80 per cent. "This is not an unusual situation,” says Carlson. "The Sonic Bloom system raises the trace element and complex sugar content of plants. Those changes make the plant much healthier and less susceptible to attack by disease and insects." Carlson continues to make discoveries that leave even him in a state of awe. "One of our greatest breakthroughs to make everyone understand how casy it is to feed large amounts of people, involved a sucker on a tomato. A sucker is normally a sterile branch which appears in between a side shoot and the main branch. Our tomato plants grow two inches a day so if we allow a sucker to grow for seven days, it's about 14 inches long. If we then cut it off, put it in the shade and spray it once a day with a 1/4 ounce per gallon solu- tion of Sonic Bloom, in 10-14 days it becomes fully rooted and starts to grow two inches per day. Fifty-five days later it is 7-9 feet tall. Now normal production on tomatoes is 90 days. We're doing this in less than 55, plus we're producing at least twice as much fruit in almost half the time." Carlson's stories have not fallen on deaf ears. Not only are his sales and reputation growing, his international prestige is on the rise as well. “Because of my success in England I am going to be lecturing to parliament and we have a major university that is doing some testing. I have just returned from Japan where I was the keynote speaker for the Bio-Rescarch Committee which consists of 8,000 organic farmers. The day before I lectured, the people who had success with Sonic Bloom told the great body of organic farm- Continued on page 76 FEBRUARY - MARCH 1994 NEXUS¢37 FEBRUARY - MARCH 1994