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only do the lettuces taste better, but they are getting at least double the supermarket shelf-life. Everyone wins from this, of course, but the big winners are the consumers. Ron Mitchell, sprout grower on the Big Island, has been using the method for some time now and reports faster maturity and superior sprouts with an incredibly extended shelf-life. “We are getting up to three-and-a-half-weeks’ shelf-life, which is unbeliev- able. Lettuces are just great, too. We provide a credit and buy- back offer with our clients, so shelf-life is real important to us." Suzanne Farrow, of the multi-award-winning Keopu Mauka Lani Coffee Company, visited Ron Mitchell's complex, saw the small black Sonic Bloom sound generator box and became really excited. In her words, “the skin on my arms and legs just jumped, and the words of Jeanne Dixon came flooding back". (Jeanne Dixon is one of the world's greatest psychic predictors, and was a friend of Edgar Cayce. Among other things, she is the person who called President Kennedy and warned him not to go to Dallas. He doubled his guard—and the rest is history.) Suzanne tells how she went to a Jeanne Dixon talk in Phoenix back in 1974 where Jeanne predicted the invention of a black box which would revolutionise food production throughout the world. Abundant, healthy crops would be able to be produced on a frac- tion of the land normally needed, Jeanne had prayed that it would be invented in America. Could the Sonic Bloom generator be the black box that Jeanne Dixon had prophesied? Suzanne thinks so, and her enthusiasm for coffee-growing has been given a new lease of life. Other coffee-growers around the world are also keen to use Sonic Bloom after Dan Carlson spoke at the recent Specialty Coffee Association meeting in Minneapolis. This worldwide association represents 26,000 square miles of coffee plantings, and almost everyone is searching for sweetness and fullness of flavour in their coffee. We are truly grateful for those wonderful pioneering growers who were prepared to embrace what, to many, seems a radical new technology, and then share their experiences with Sonic Bloom for the benefit of all, They can see its promise for the world and feel that more people should know about it. Dan Carlson has refused to sell his patented method and secret recipe to, any corporation in the belief that the concept would be squashed or put on the shelf, never to be seen again. Being an inventor and not having the backing or advertising budget along the lines of Coca-Cola or McDonalds means that, up until now, Sonic Bloom has not been seriously marketed in the US, let alone the rest of the world. With the politics of the US being such that many growers are being paid by the government not to grow, and- with the requirement that agricultural products be registered at great expense on a state-by-state basis, Sonic Bloom is likely to be more widely used and accepted everywhere else in the world before it gains its rightful place in the country where it was invent- ed. The good news is that Sonic Bloom appears to be on the verge of being an overnight 20-year success story, as people around the globe are becoming more open-minded to this type of technology while others are demanding better quality food and less environ- mental damage. Even governments around the world are taking notice of what Sonic Bloom has to offer (a sumary of its benefits was recently tabled in the Australian Parliament). Thanks to the support of a dedicated bunch of crusaders, includ- ing NEXUS Magazine, Sonic Bloom may indeed help save the planet and its inhabitants. 60 For more information on where to find Sonic Bloom in your country, please refer to the inside back cover of this issue. After Australia, I felt compelled to visit Hawaii where Sonic Bloom lias also made its mark. The Hawaiian Islands are indeed a tropical paradise, yet most of their fruit and vegetables are brought in from mainland USA while vast tracts of land lie vacant—some- thing which I find astounding given the climate and rainfall. Sonic Bloom has made its presence felt here in several ways. Years ago, Dan leased land here and trialled the technique on a wide range of fruit and vegetables with astounding success, Most of my time was spent on the island of Kauai where. escapist movies like Jurassic Park and South Pacific were filmed. To balance that out, a reality by the name of Hurricane Nicki came along and totally devastated the entire island in September 1993. People were homeless and without electricity for months. Hardly @ power pole was left standing, and those trees which weren't blown over lost all their branches. You don't need to see the video of that hurricane or imagine the 220 mph winds that swept the island to know Kauai got hit really hard. Evidence of that real- life horror story is‘ still present today with unrepaired buildings, shipping containers on front lawns, and Norfolk pines with short new branches from top to bottom trying desperately to reclaim some dignity. It was wonderful to see the considerable number of organic farmers and the variety and high standard of fruit and vegetables being grown, proving that Hawaii could and should be producing most of its own needs. One of the major lettuce-buyers is now urging his supplying growers to use Sonic Bloom after one of the growers began using the system on his speciality lettuces. They have found that not A record citrus crop for this farmer! 28 « NEXUS A record citrus crop for this farmer! DECEMBER 1995 - JANUARY 1996