High on our list of under-utilized resources in the world today is the wisdom, insights and skills of Keenagers who were forced to ‘retire’ from businesses, people who have skills in growing businesses.

I always try to also think ‘from the other side of the table’, from the other person’s perspective. If I were in that position, I sure would welcome an opportunity to use my skills, knowledge and insights, and invest some of my own accumulated capital, to make this a better world, including being really appreciated for my being a key team player.

If you are a Keenager (Senior Citizen) who has a wealth of knowledge, skills and resources; and you would like to create a legacy, can you imagine teaming up with some others who have cutting edge technology, to provide massive value to society and our environment, and earn a nice return as a byproduct of providing that value? Even if you haven’t reached "Keenager" status, you may be interested.

I have the illusion that some of these people crave the opportunity to use their talents and some of their accumulated resources to help provide massive value to society and our environment, particularly in sustainable ways that will save everyone money, and earn a nice profit. As a team leader, creating team synergy, cultivating people, is a priority. The world needs the best that we can collectively co-create. "TEAM" means Together Everybody Achieves More.

"Waste" is a major problem, and a human invention. There is no waste in nature. Furthermore, much of our ‘waste’ is organic, food waste, which can be responsibly composted, creating Magic^bioSoil, which can then be used to restore life and vitality to our soil, so that re-vitalized soil can yield healthy, nutrient dense organic food, without any of the devastating affects caused by ‘modern’ industrialized agricultural practices. We’ve had corn grow to over 12’ tall in compost amended soil.

Composting can be done responsibly, and profitably, utilizing technologies that we’ve developed through over 15 years of hands-on research. Sadly, most composting has been problematic, and possibly also not profitable, because it has not given due consideration to the needs of the naturally occurring microbes that do the composting. We take a holistic approach, in part, thinking like microbes. Could that be the reason I am also known as "Dr. Mike Robe"?

Over ten years ago we started developing our compost research silo lab, which has gone through many enhancements over the years. On April 2^nd, 2010, we put into service our first "Super Tall Compost Research Silo" which can hold compost over 8' deep, to give us first hand data, facts, on compost that deep. If you Google search: "compost research silos", you’ll likely find that 7 of the top 8 search results point to our work. Our research has focused on getting answers to practical questions on how to improve the composting process, which has given us major competitive advantages.

If you believe you have major skills in building a startup, and would like to make this a better world, and know how to raise capital, we invite you to contact us and see how we can create a double win. And you may know others who have a proven record of growing startups and can get them to contact us.

As quickly as the first facility is up and running, we envision replicating it many times over, all over the world. There is a massive need for our technology, as much to rebuild soil quality, as to solve the waste problem. We’ve got to rebuild the soil quality as step one of creating a sustainable supply of nutrient dense food that will make for healthy people.

We’ve approached composting holistically, science, business, environment and recognizing that we’ve got to be a good neighbor. We learned back in 1995 that many of the popular beliefs in the composting industry simply did not stand up to scientific testing, and that led us on a quest for facts, to figure out how to transform ‘food waste’ into Magic^bioSoil and earn a nice profit at the same time.

Since one of our finished product target markets will be golf courses, can you imagine having a meeting on a golf course that is using our Magic^bioSoil , showing a potential business client how nice our Magic^bioSoil performs on golf courses, enabling the golf courses to eliminate the use of carcinogenic turf chemicals? Claims are cheap, but for the business associate to play the course, to see that Magic^bioSoil delivers, is demonstrating the magic in our product.

Can you imagine business meetings on a floating office / conference center? Fine tuning the composting process, harnessing natural resources like the microbes, is a bit like trimming the sails to get the best performance from the wind. Would it be rough having a week long brain storming meeting in the Caribbean in January or February?

Working Together to Create a Sustainable World,
John Crockett, CEO
Mother Nature’s Farms
Carmel, New York
jac@magicsoil.com
http://www.magicsoil.com
http://www.magicsoil.com/success
1 (845) 225-7763

Enlightened, visionary people recognize that our long term health and prosperity depends on our being socially and environmentally responsible in everything we do. In business, it is also the key to long term profitability.

Too many businesses and people have been putting short term monetary profit as their top priority, failing to recognize that any negative impacts on society and/or our environment will, in the long run, will cost us dearly.

Growing healthy, nutrient dense foods, requires that we become stewards of the soil.  Compost is a great way to restore health to the soil, both organic matter, and a diverse array of microbes that build "The Soil Food Web", the tiny critters, many microscopic, that cycle nutrients for the plants, and provide natural pest and disease suppression.

We’re working toward a new regional food composting facility that is designed to divert over 1,000 tons per day that is currently going to incinerators and landfills, and we’ll turn it into Magic^bioSoil, premium compost that will restore life, health to the soil. Clearly, our success will be the result of our commitment to society and our environment. We’re talking about building a concrete composting pad, with aeration veins built into the concrete pad, all under roof, utilizing our Dynamic Bio-Filter technology for eliminating all foul odors. We’ve also got many other technological advantages that we’ve developed through over 10 years of hands-on research; that are critically important to success. While this requires significant capital, it can also be financially sustainable, providing a reasonable Return on Investment.

Repeatedly, putting the priority on providing benefits to society and our environment is the heart of long term success. Putting the primary focus on monetary profits without the primary focus on society and our environment, is sabotage, and unsustainable. Cutting cost is often like cutting their throat.

We’re looking for visionary investors who recognize the wisdom of investing in regional infrastructure, that is dedicated to providing massive benefits to society and our environment. Together we can provide massive value to society and our environment, and in the process, earn a nice ROI,

John Crockett
Carmel, New York
(845) 225-7763
jac@magicsoil.com
http://www.magicsoil.com

What is "Magic" about Soil? Really healthy soil is an awesome and facinating micro-environment with billions of micro-organisms in every handful. IN healthy soil, these micro-organisms cycle nutrients and provide natural disease suppression for the plants. Because so much of the micro-organisms are far to small to see without a microscope, many people don’t appreciate this amazing environment.

Plants simply thrive in Magic^bioSoil

Many people have never given any thought to the importance of the health of the soil, or to how the soil health affects the health of the plants, and our health.

I believe that we will be healthier when we re-connect with the soil, become far more aware of soil, have a reverence for the earthworms and much smaller critters that make up the soil food web. See the Soil Food Web chart below.

Having an organic vegetable garden, connecting with the soil, can be an extremely rewarding affect on our whole being, joy, reconnecting with Mother Earth, with nature. It can be even more powerful if shared with family and friends, a ‘community’ creating synergy with nature, with the soil

ALL Animal Health depends on Soil Health.

The current chaos in health care has three rather obvious roots:

• The body’s immune system is not working up to the challenge because it hasn’t been getting the proper nutrition, essential enzymes, etc.
• The body’s detoxifying system is overloaded, with a massive toxic burden in the liver, so the liver cannot detoxify the rest of the body, and perform all the other wonderful functions that nature designed the liver to be able to perform. The good news is that getting the toxins out of the liver is quiet simple, inexpensive, and even a pleasant process.
• Beliefs: We’ve been, and continue to be bombarded with propaganda and much of it is hazardous to our health. We’ve got to learn to think for ourselves, use ‘common sense’.

I would like your feedback, your thoughts about what you would like to know more about in the realm of health, nutrition and improving the soil.

John Crockett
jac@magicsoil.com
http://www.magicsoil.com
Carmel, New York

Our health, our survival, depends on our rebuilding the health of our soil, so the soil can yield healthy plants, nutrient rich food for us.   All animal health, including human beings, depends on the health of the soil.

While industrialized agriculture has been killing our soil with chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, so the crops are grossly lacking in the nutritional value that our bodies need to maintain vibrant health.  In Contrast, organic farmers practice soil stewardship. 

We're proposing to build a new state of the art food composting facility to serve the lower Hudson River Valley region of New York State, to divert Source Separated food residuals that are currently going to incinerators and distant landfills.  We're talking about composting on a concrete pad, under roof, making the facility "zero run-off", protecting ground water.    We're talking about an elaborate aeration system with aeration veins built into the concrete pad, and our Dynamic Bio-Filter technology for eliminating any foul odors from within the composting system. 

This facility will be vital regional infrastructure, and a great totally Green investment opportunity.  We'll be solving a significant part of the 'waste' problem, while also significantly improving soil quality.  We'll be creating jobs, and enabling haulers to save significant money in tipping fees.  Everyone will win.  We'll be moving toward a much more sustainable environment for all of us.

For more information, contact:
John Crockett
Carmel, New York
(845) 225-7763
jac@magicsoil.com

It's time to invest in Green regional infrastructure that will conserve our resources, create good paying jobs, and restore the health of our soil, while saving money on 'disposing' of source separated food waste.

Sending food waste to incinerators and landfills is NOT sustainable. 

It's time for people to put their investment dollars in sustainable environmental infrastructure, investing in our future.  

The first facility is planned to serve the Lower Hudson River Valley Region.  For more information, click here.

John Crockett
Carmel, New York
(845) 225-7763
jac@magicsoil.com

Let’s support and encourage one another, as we climb to new heights.

Do you know people whose minds, spirits, and hearts seem to be mired, drowning in a cesspool? Have those people fallen into the quagmire of focusing on the negatives, the problems. Have those people lost the habit and skill of getting their brain up into really empowering neuro-chemistry, and body, whole being up into empowering chemistry?

On Friday afternoon, March 22^nd, 1991, I was driving down the New Jersey Turnpike from Carmel, New York, where I lived, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to an Unlimited Power Weekend with Tony Robbins. That evening we would have the opportunity to do a fire walk, that is, walk barefoot across 12 feet of 1500°F red hot coals.

As I was driving down the New Jersey Turnpike my self talk was: "I’ve got to be crazy. Fire burns. They cremate people at 1400°". I had been a volunteer fireman for 23 years. As a kid I had played with fire.

I had also read and heard about tens of thousands of people having fire walked without getting any burns. Walking barefoot across 1500° red hot coals did not fit into my logic, common sense, references. How could it be?

Well, about seven hours later, after about 5 hours of very special coaching by Tony Robbins, out in the hotel parking lot, people started walking barefoot across the 1500° red hot coals, coming off the coals with No burns on their feet. And I became one of them, doing my first fire walk, with no burns.

Tony had pointed out during the coaching that when we allow ourselves to get mired in Stinkin Thinkin, doubt, negative thinking, we are "burning ourselves". To successfully fire walk, our state of mind, on a Zero to Ten scale, Ten being the highest; we’ve got to be up at Seventeen or higher, way up off the top of the scale.

About 900 people successfully fire walked that night, without getting any burns on their feet, not even a blister the size of your little fingernail.

Whether I understand the details or not, now I had a new reference, personal experience. And since then I have done eleven more fire walks, including 35', and have seen thousands of others successfully fire walk.

Henry Ford said: "If you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re probably right".

The greatest highs in my life have been when I have helped people transform from Stinkin Thinkin to really resourceful, empowered, and it usually happens very quickly.

The #1 Peak Experience in my life was when, in August of 1997 I helped 5 or 6 year old Hunter White, a total stranger, up on Saint Regis Mountain, in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York, in the wilderness, forest, go from being mired in Stinkin Thinkin, to peak, in about 5 minutes.

It was totally spontaneous. I saw a little boy in distress, crisis, and instinctively I conceived and very successfully delivered an intervention, pattern interrupt. He transformed from very tired, whining, crying, to incredibly inspired, to where I think he could almost have levitated the next mile and a half, because I followed my heart’s calling. Hunter’s brain and body chemistry, and his neuro-associations changed massively, and in a matter of about 6 minutes.

I’ve personally seen Tony Robbins bring 1,600 people up to a perfect fire walk, in five hours, 1,600 people walking across 12 feet of red hot coals with No burns. The proof is there. We have the ability to bring our minds and bodies up to extraordinary performance, and we don’t need to understand the details. I’ve never seen scientists or medical doctors explain how we can walk on 1500° red hot coals without getting burned.

CAUTION: FIRE WALKING IS VERY SERIOUS, AND POTENTIALLY VERY DANGEROUS. DO NOT ATTEMPT IT WITHOUT AN EXTRAORDINARY COACH TRAINED IN LEADING FIRE WALKS!

While in future posts I will share with you numerous ways to shift to empowered thinking, let’s start with one, now.

Please steeple your fingers, taking the fingers of your left hand, and aligning them with the corresponding fingers of your right hand, so your fingertips are touching. Now bend your fingers, so it is a bit like a spider doing push-ups on a mirror.

Can you name all the bones, muscles, nerves, ligaments, tendons and neuro-transmitters involved in steepling your fingers? Probably not, yet, with just a casual thought, with no need to understand the details, we’re able to bring the parts of our body into near perfect alignment, to function in harmony with one another; without understanding any of the details; with just a casual thought.

I wonder what else you can do with a casual thought. Finger steepling is an extremely powerful metaphor, so don’t use it, unless you really want to unleash a lot more of your potential; and if you do want to unleash a lot more of your potential, you might do a lot of finger steepling, and realize that we don’t need to understand the details, that a casual thought and a little bit of action can achieve amazing things.

What if you start to dream, envision what you want to create in your future, in positive terms? What if you create some empowering questions? Creating "Empowering Questions" will be the subject of another post on this blog in the very near future.

In another post we’ll get into unleashing the potential of your Other Than Conscious, that part of your brain that is some 3200 times more powerful than our conscious mind.

We’ll also cover insights for re-creating vibrant health. On the chance that there are some who have a real need to get started immediately, on re-creating vibrant health, http://www.alphamagic.org/healing/Detoxifying.htm .

You may want to follow me on Twitter, "Vibrant_Health" and LinkedIn.

Today is the first day of the rest of our life. Let’s co-create bliss, abundance, vibrant health, and world peace, starting now.

John Crockett

While 'composting' is a natural process, when we start to compost large volumes of food residuals, preventing foul odors takes resources that are very uncommon; and a team that knows how to, and is totally committed to preventing any foul odors being released.

I've heard that keeping the oxygen above 15% will prevent foul odors.  I can tell you from first hand experience, that when composting food residuals, even with oxygen being maintained at or above 17%, there can be significant foul odors from the early stage compost.  AND, that is where our Dynamic Bio-Filter technology delivers excellent results, capturing the plant nutrients, and breaking down the odorous compounds to odorless compounds. 

It was January of 1996 that we did our first Oxygen Depletion test at Old Salem Farm, in North Salem, New York, and discovered to our amazement that when we turned off the aeration blower, the microbes crashed the oxygen from 19% down to 2% in just 15 minutes.   Later hands-on in-house research documented a significant relationship between the level of CO₂ in the off-gas, and the population of active bacteria in the compost.  Samples 2536 & 2540 were from a passively aerated windrow of yard wastes.  The rest of the samples were compost that was on full time forced aeration. 

We've got over 15 years of hands on experience working with forced aeration.  Team profit sharing and strong team leadership, combined with facility features like our Dynamic Bio-Filters, protect our respect from the neighbors and community.

We first developed our Dynamic Bio-Filter technology in 2002, and it's proven its effectiveness, efficiency.  We know how to maintain the system so that it meets the challenges.  There is no substitute for years of hands on experience, combined with a passion for excellence.

Intitutions that have over 50 cubic yards of organic "waste" per week, and have suitable land, space, may be able to set up cost effective, neighor and environmentally responsible composting.  There are significant set up cost, and, certainly the economics and other factors are worth exploring to see whether it can work.  In some cases the costs can be more than off-set by reduction in the cost of waste disposal. 

Some of the areas that have to be addressed are:

•  preventing foul odors
• Vector control, preventing problems with rats, raccoons, flies, sea gulls
• ground water; protecting
• collection
• source separation
• responsible management of the composting process
• Impact on neighbors (it mus tbe done so it has no negative impact on neighbors)

Those interested in exploring the options should contact me.

John Crockett
Carmel, New York
1 (845) 225-7763
jac@magicsoil.com
www.magicsol.com

In most businesses, one of the first things a manager does in the morning is to look around and see how many workers are on the job and are being productive.

In composting the real production works are the microbial master composters.  Bacteria are so tiny (approximately 1.0µm diameter) that it takes about 25,000, 'shoulder to shoulder', to span 1.0 inches.  That means that 'checking up' on them is a little more complicated.

It involves going through 'serial diltuions', staining with Fluorsescein Diacetate (FDA), and counting the bacteria under Epi Fluorescent microscopy. 

The spreadsheet to the right shows the QuattroPro template which we developed to do the number crunching.  

Without having any way to measure how much microbial activity is in the compost, we'd be working blind, and lack a way of measuring how various process management practices affect the composting process.

Meeting the modern day needs to conserve our organic resources, including composting food waste, we've got to use all available tools to improve process efficiency, consistent with being neighbor and environmentally responsible. 

Examining samples of compost under the microscope can be very humbling, and interesting.

It's very important to realize that these microbes are all naturally occuring, come with the incoming feedstock, and are very much like the 100 trillion bacteria that each of us raise, each day, to digest our breakfast, lunch and dinner, microbes that are vital partners in creating a sustainable environment for you and me. 

While few people think much about their breathing, or how much oxygen and / or CO₂ is in the air around you, in composting it is very important to pay attention to making sure the microbes have adequate oxygen.  Sadly, too many composters don't have a clue about the oxygen and CO₂ level in their compost, and that is one of the reasons composting has failed to meet the challenges.  We pay a lot of attention to the oxygen and/or CO₂ level, and adjust the rate of air flow to maintain it within our target range, which is oxygen ≥ 17%.  As a reference, normal ambient oxygen is close to 21%. 

Could you function well without oxgyen?  Of course not!  Just the same, few composters monitor oxygen or CO₂, or have any idea about the consequences of the oxygen and CO₂ being at various levels.  By October of 1995 we realized that we had to start monitoring oxygen and CO₂.  We then learned that we had to do a lot more research, and that led us to developing our Compost Research Silos which provide us a great environment for doing hands-on research, to get the answers to practical questions.

Society and our environment need our very best. To meet the challenges, we continue to do extensive hand-on in-house reserach, to enable serving you and our environment better.