What is EM?
 Can "EM" be a New Miracle Treatment for Old Problems?
EM is shorthand for a powerful and beneficial metabiotic known as Effective Microorganisms, where each organism creates favorable conditions for the growth of the others and creates an antioxidative microbial culture.
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Swimming for Preservation
 Renate Herberger was interviewed at Casa Colina / Santa Teresa after her day in the water. This was Renate's 38th day of swimming every day for 7-9 hours and covering between 15-20 kms each day. When we talked with 52-year-old Renate, the self-styled "Costa Rica Mermaid", originally from Baden-Baden, Germany, she had already swum a total of more than 600 kms in those 38 days.
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Praying Mantis
The Mantis order consists of about 2300 species in tropical and temperate zones world-wide. The most common are the odd-looking "praying mantis", named because of its prayer-like stance - not "preying mantis" because they are predators! The name "mantis" comes from Greek for prophet or fortune teller, and the closest relatives are termites and cockroaches.
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Pesca con Mosca
 Cuando empezamos a hablar de la pesca con mosca (fly fishing), hacemos referencia a uno de los sistemas mas antiguos utilizados por el hombre para conseguir sus alimentos. Actualmente, se ha convertido en un deporte que bajo esta modalidad de pesca utiliza una caña y un señuelo artificial al que llaman “mosca”.
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Planting and Cutting of Grass
Basic rules for the sowing of grass
Very good: during the waxing moon in Leo.
Good: during the waxing moon and in the water signs (Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces)
Unfavorable: during the waning moon.
Very unfavorable: during the waning moon and in the light signs: (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) |
La aplicación del Poder de Uno
 La aplicación del Poder de Uno, es un manual que intenta concientizar a las personas sobre como poder modificar sus hábitos cotidianos, practicando buenas costumbres que permitan el desarrollo y la conservación del ambiente.
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Got Garbage? Need Fuel?
 SO CONVERT GARBAGE INTO FUEL GRADE ALCOHOL!!!
Here's an idea to solve the ever-increasing problem of municipal waste and simultaneously develope an alternative fuel. Two birds with one economic stone!
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Close Encounters with a Jaguar
 Close encounters with jaguars are an increasingly rare occurrence in Costa Rica. Deforestation caused by timber enterprises and developers is shrinking Costa Rica's remaining pockets of primary forest at an alarming rate, even in ´protected' areas.
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Beware of “Hilo Rico”
 "Hilo Rico" - also known in English as "Rich Threat" especially to surfers and fishermen.
This jellyfish really burns if it touches you.
If you get stung, locals advise soaking the affected area
with hot water and don't scratch!
Scratching only makes it worse. Another common treatment is to pee on the burned area. |
Planting with Moon Cycles
Observing the moon and its cycles is a tradition as old as man himself.
In gardening, the moon cycles are very significant. They strongly affect the flowering & fruiting of trees & plants.
The moon has a strong pull on everything liquid on the planet. Since plants also have a circulatory system (sap) they too experience ´tides´ or biorythms.
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