 Hello, this is an additional presentation to understand how to make and reproduce IMO, or Indigenous microorganisms. So what are Indigenous microorganisms? They are microorganisms that have been adapting and evolving in the native soil for a very long time before we even came here. So I said diversity in the life that lives in the soil and connects the trees under the soil for them to share nutrients and communicate. So there are mainly, well, there's many and probably many that we don't even know about, but there are fungi, bacteria and yeasts. Within these ones, they kind of, some of them look like this in the piece of bark that I'm showing. And the important thing here is that the more beneficial biodiversity we have in the soil, the less chance for non-beneficial microbes to reproduce. They also will add a big web like an extension on the roots of trees so that they can be more drought tolerant. And we can boost their immune systems and resilience to this ecosystem that we are, if we harvest them here so that our crops and plants can grow a lot better. So we're to harvest Indigenous microorganisms. So the best shot would be in nearby forests that you can go into a functional ecosystem close by, hopefully that you have access to that, the closest, the better, so that you can go and find them there. So it's going to be an expedition for sure. It's going to be a nice way to connect in the nature. So you want to find something that looks like a micro-risal, something that looks, something like the picture I showed you in the bark. They normally appear in leaves like this white webs, barks, pieces of wood. Of course, it has to be a healthy soil full of mulch that if you remove a little bit of the leaves there, you'll find kind of like a whitish presence there in the soil. That's the fungi. That's the mycelium that you're looking for. A quick recommendation is that you shouldn't harvest in the rainy season. You should at least wait for two days with no rain so that you can harvest the IMO. So the benefits of IMO, indigenous microorganisms, is that they're drought tolerance. They have adapted to this place, so they will benefit your plants to be more drought tolerant. This is a picture of how they look like. This is a picture of when we already have reproduced them, but that you can understand how is it that they look like. This kind of white web in the soil. They also boost the immune system, as we said. So these filaments, they add to plant roots and they increase the ability to get more nutrients in the water. So the IMO, there's many steps on how to make IMO. So to start with the IMO-1, the first process is that you cook some rice. I normally make one kilo of rice, but you can make as much as you want. That will depend on the size of your natural container. I'll show a picture of that, but you want a natural container like a wooden box that is not plastic. However, if you're reusing plastic, I guess it's okay as long as it can breathe that it can have some holes underneath that on the sides for the biology to grow. So it can be a canasta also, something that breathes that is made for palm leaves or a natural material is most convenient. So what you're going to do is the cook rice, you're going to put it in your container and then you're going to cover it with a paper cloth on top. So you're going to take this container full of rice and you're going to the full of cooked rice, you're going to go and bury it where you have found that fungi on those branches. So if you can, you can dig a small hole and you place your container there and I would recommend put some of the branches full of the fungi on top of the paper cloth, never in there, never in the rice. So what's going to happen is that the biology that lives in the soil is going to travel through the paper cloth and through the holes of the box and it's going to go and reproduce in the carbohydrate in this case is the rice. So you're going to leave it for five days without getting wet, that's very important. Make sure that it's in a dry spot and in case that it rains or it's a rainy area, maybe you want to cover it a little bit so that there's no rain on it. So what's going to happen is that the biology is going to reproduce in that carbohydrate and it's going to heat up and then you're going to have a big big colony in that rice. So that would be IMO1 to harvest them and after five days it's going to look something like this where this webby stuff is reproducing. It is important not to add organic matter in the rice. That was my first mistake and then it was very difficult to get rid of that. You just want the pure rice with the ecology, with the biology. So avoid doing that, adding the leaves and stuff in the rice. The biology will spread in any ways in the carbohydrate. So it should smell nice and fresh. If there's a smelly odor I would dispose it, I would throw it in your compost but it should smell very nice, very fresh like the forest. And then once you have your rice full of the biology I would say that you leave just one hour until you start doing IMO2. So you want to harvest it when it's full of life and you don't want to take too long because it can heat up way too much and you can lose part of the biology. So with the Noi hour, one hour, we move to IMO2 and basically IMO2 is mixed the equal amount of that rice full of fungi with brown sugar. That's the only thing you have to do. So the sugar will absorb the available water that is still in the rice and it's going to make it non-available anymore. So the biology go into a dormant state and they release some spores. And this way we can store IMO from the forest for a very long period of time. As you can see I have many samples that I have taken in different forests that I have found and it was not necessarily a forest but it was a very abundant natural site that I found one of them so to have the most diversity possible. So you just grab that rice that you have with the same weight, the amount of brown sugar and then you mix it in one bowl. You don't really want to press that hard on the rice once you're mixing it. You just kind of want to gently and evenly mix it. You don't want it to be too liquid. In case it's looking very liquid, I would add some of the brown rice on top of that IMO so that you avoid that there's a lot more water because if there's a lot of water then it's going to react and the bacteria is going to start eating all that sugar and it's not really going to store very well. So I wouldn't use that as a primary IMO in case that happens. Just make sure that it's not too liquid, that it's consistent and it's more solid. So always I use a brown sugar cap once I'm finished mixing the rice with the sugar. Just add a little bit of brown sugar on top to make sure that there's not going to be excessive moisture. And this you can store with a breadable lid. You can store in a place without direct sunlight and it can be good for a long period of time. And you should have many of these. And this is the way that you're already relating with the natural biology and implementing it in your soil is the best fertilizer. So once you decide you already want to take your biology out of the dormant state, it's called IMO 3, step number 3. And I'll briefly go through how to activate and reproduce 10 gallons of IMO. So of course you're going to use your IMO 2 and you're going to have several inputs. They're going to help that reproduction. So FPJ is the first one or fermented plant juice and you use 0.3 ounces for that. You use brown rice vinegar, same amount, sea water. So if in case you don't have sea water it would be great to go on a little trip to the ocean and otherwise I guess you could order it online. A little bit of sea water or just the best way that you can get sea water would be okay. 5.3 ounces. Humic acid in liquid form is best. So the IMO 2, I just use one finger and then water 1.24 gallons. So what you want to do here is that you want to make a kind of a tea. So in the water you're going to add all your inputs and you're going to mix it gently so that the sea water and the humic acid is going to enhance the fungal activity. It's going to give them enough nutrients to reproduce. So I'm going to briefly say how to make fermented plant juice. So in this case I used moringa because it's produced here locally, organic. So I got a lot of it fresh. So what you want is to harvest your plant and it can be a local weed. If you want a weed that you know that has a lot of potassium and magnesium, a lot of nutrients, one that you see that is thriving in the environment that you live in. So what we want is to extract those nutrients so we can give them back to our plants, to our biology. So I used moringa and I used brown sugar and so I cut them and I mixed them. I cut them very small so that the juices can come out and I added the sugar. I just mix it in a bucket with my hands and once you do that already there's some moisture coming out. And then what you want is to let it sit for two weeks. Maybe a week is enough but just make sure that it remains liquid, that it's going to stay liquid so that the fermentation can start. And when I did this I had to extract, it didn't look very liquid although it had some liquid I had to take out the moringa and just really, really press it with my hand so I could get all the liquid out and then that's how I started with a breathable lid. So this is briefly how you make FPGA or fermented plant juice. You can use a plant that you see that is thriving and with the sugar you're going to be able to get its nutrients and ferment it so you can give it back to our biology. So along with the inputs of the IMO3 you need five gallons of carbs and five gallons of carbon. Maybe you can check what is available locally for you. What I use in this case is five gallons of wheat bran that is very easy to find here and five gallons of cacao shells. It's a very good smell. I mix them evenly because the wheat is going to cause a carb and it's going to make the biology heat up a lot. So I try to stabilize it with the cacao shells that is not only the wheat bran because if your temperature goes above 120 Fahrenheit then most of the beneficial biology will die because of the heat. So when it's dry you mix your carbs and your carbon, you mix them well and then you add your liquids including the IMO2. So once you add the liquids you really try to mix it thoroughly and you want to use a natural box for that because if you use plastic then the part of the IMO3 that is against the plastic can become anaerobic and this is something that happened to me as well. So you really want a breathable box whether it's a wood or a cardboard something like that. So this is when I already mixed my inputs with the carbs and the carbon and it looks like this. This one smells like chocolate cake so it has to always have a good smell and so after five days you have to turn it every day so that it doesn't heat up, that it never goes past 120 Fahrenheit. So mix it every day. I do it with my hands, you can use a shovel you just really want to move it for it not to become anaerobic and you can keep that iration stabilization. This happened on the second day, this photo and it looks so beautiful you have to see that much ecology, biology just thriving right there but yeah it will look something like this. If you're in a very dry climate you may need to regulate the moisture. It happened to me that I use cardboard because cardboard absorbs a lot of water. It dried up in three days. You really wanted to be at least five days that it's reproducing so it can really colonize all the grains. So you may add a little bit of water not too much just to keep that going in case it's drying up and you feel that the moisture is not correct. The moisture should be you can press it with your hands but it doesn't really stay like a ball. It just has like a little bit of compression but it falls apart. That's what you're looking for. In cold climates it may take a longer time than five days just stay vigilant and then be open to make mistakes and do it again just always keep an eye on them. They look something like this they're very very beautiful. So in the end after the five days it should look something like this so you get these chunks of they will colonize these chunks and if you open them up you shouldn't open all of them but if you open them up they should look something like this very webby in there. It looks very good it smells great and those are good biology for soil the native biology. And you can store that in a wooden box in a closed wooden box you can store that for some weeks. And from this you can make certain things you can make liquid IMO or you can just mix the IMO 3 the finished product with your native soil and the same inputs so that you can build soil. That's how we really build native soil. Again you mix your native soil with the biology and then you have that soil full of that microorganisms you know that are going to stabilize that are going to help with the restoration of our soils. And to make liquid IMO which is very easy to add you just need these amounts of FPJ, same brown rice vinegar, sea water, humic acid, IMO 2 or IMO 3 is okay to use when making liquid IMO and your water. Important that when you're making liquid IMO since we mainly have fungi you need an irater something looking like this. I got something like this with at least two tubes giving oxygen you can use your stones you can add the end of the tube to a stone you can make that oxygen rock and it goes in the bottom so that you can always have this stimulation for 36 hours and then you have your liquid indigenous microorganisms that you can add to your soil and to your plants. So I hope that was helpful on how to make and reproduce indigenous microorganisms that is has been very helpful for us it's super fun to do and that way you make sure that you're working with the available native biology which is most important. Thank you.