URECAT - UFO Related Entities Catalog

ANOTHER KIND OF HARVEST: THE REMARKABLE VEGETABLES OF JOSE' CARMEN GARCIA

Jose Carmen Garcia Martinez is a 49-year-old farmer, one of hundreds who eke out a meager livelihood by tilling the granite-like soil of the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, some 260 miles northwest of Mexico City.

Like his neighbors, Garcia hitches a pair of mules to his plow each autumn and prepares seedbed furrows on his three-acre plot. Then he plants seeds he has purchased at the community store.

This store (it should be noted) also supplies seeds to Garcia's neighbors - identical seeds. All have been shipped from Texas in burlap bags. No seeds planted by Garcia differ from seeds sown by the other farmers of Guanajuato.

The products which grow from Jose's seeds are quite another matter. Each spring after the harvest, Garcia again hooks up his mules and heads for the local marketplace, where he instantly becomes the focal point of excitement that has begun to spread through Mexico and promises to reach around the world.

A crowd draws around as Garcia starts to unload his wagon. Onions weighing eight pounds each, and more, draw gasps of admiration from the onlookers. There are huge cabbages 60 pounds each with some even larger, and collard greens five feet long bearing leaves more than two feet wide. These king-sized super vegetables quickly find their way into the wagons of shoppers, who rush to buy out Jose's vegetables as fast as he can unload them.

Thirty-two years have passed since Garcia first astounded the people of Guanajuato by marketing his gargantuan produce. Despite their bulk, his vegetables are as tender and tasty as any of conventional size. Many of Jose's customers assert they not only go farther, but taste better than any others.

Other farmers ask how it can be that Jose Carmen Garcia buys seeds where they buy theirs, plants them and harvest his crops exactly as they do in soil no different than theirs, yet grows vegetables of magnificent proportions, the likes of which are found nowhere else on earth.

I asked those questions of Garcia myself when I met him for the first time in April 1976. I also saw his giant vegetables and tasted them - and was greatly taken by their flavor and tenderness. What Garcia told me, he has told other people. The story has subsequently been published in Mexican newspapers and magazines.

Garcia told me that in 1947, when he was seventeen years old, he was plowing one fall afternoon when he met a stranger, although everyone, quite literally, knew everyone else in Garcia's farm community. However, the trespasser was invited by Jose to eat and drink.

Warmed by homemade sweetbreads and coffee, the stranger soon unfolded a story which stirred Garcia's youthful imagination and was to have a major impact on his life.

Jose sat spellbound as his mysterious guest told how he had been captured by a band of strange beings and held for a number of days in a long, spacious tunnel beneath one of the many inactive volcanos surrounding the area.

His captors were describd as humanoids - tall and fair-skinned, and who spoke in weird, unintelligible sounds. Most seemed occupied at harvesting giant vegetables. As they worked, they appeared to be studying an odd formula consisting of heiroglyphic symbols.

Young Garcia's guest said he had memorized this mysterious formula and would share it with Jose out of gratitude for such fine hospitality. Working quickly, he sketched the symbols on paper.

"Concentrate on these writings," he told the youth, "and in time you will understand their meaning. It is a magic formula, and by using it, you will feed the world."

Evening came, and as mysteriously as he had appeared out of nowhere, the stranger disappeared in the gathering darkness.

Jose followed the instructions he had been given. Day and night he thought of nothing but the symbols. After three sleepless nights, he knew it was time to plant his seeds. Three months later, he harvested his first crop of outsized onions, cabbages and greens. The legend of Jose Carmen Garcia had begun and his fame has spread each year by word of mouth.

Now, communicating through a friend named Oscar Arredondo, Garcia says he wants the world to have his secret, even if his government won't help.

Arredondo, a photographer, has compiled an impressive record of Garcia's accomplishments in the form of pictures. He says there really isn't anything surprising about the story of the mysterious stranger and his message to Jose. The state of Guanajuato is host to numerous visitors from outer space, he adds, and people report UFO sightings almost every day.

And there are other interesting facts, Arredondo asserts, including:

• Nicolas Infante, a farmer, heard the sound of rushing water when he reached the 40-foot level while digging a well. Infante says the well expels strong bursts of air, and absorbs air at night. He believes he inadvertently hit a tunnel linking two of seven inactive volcanos which may house inhabitants from other worlds.
• Maria Carmen de Guisma swears she was the captive of extra-terrestrial beings in a space ship for three months.
• Dr. Manuel Garcia Rivera, a local physician, says he cared for the woman caretaker of a hacienda near one of the craters. She told Rivera she left her bed at 3 a.m. and saw a bright object on the ground. Four beings, all glowing, disembarked and gathered samples of the earth. She described the four as being of medium height.

These and other incidents have been reported in a local newspaper and in a national magazine, but to date have not generated the interest they appear to warrant.

"Why isn't the world interested?" asks Arredondo. "If this happened anywhere other than Mexico, world scientists and agricultural experts would gather here."

To prove the validity of Garcia's revelation, a challenge was issued. On a warm March day in 1978, two crops were harvested on a farm far from Guanajuato's volcanoes in Tampico. The site had been selected by government agricultural specialists, who inspected all seeds with great care and supervised the planting three months prior to the harvest.

Two farmers had sown identical 20-acre plots. One was a local man, the other Jose Carmen Garcia, and every step of the growing process, from plowing until final harvest, was under the watchful scrutiny of government agents.

The seeds planted by both men were identical. No fertilizer was used. On the final day - the day of harvest - government scales were trucked to the farm. It was sundown before results could be tallied, but the outcome was never in doubt.

Crops grown by the farmer enlisted by the Federal Department of Agriculture averaged 30 tons per acre. Jose's output totaled 105 tons and 690 kilos per acre.

Garcia's onions, including stalks, stood six feet tall. His cabbages spread their leaves over a seven foot circumference. His collard greens boasted five-foot stalks, exactly like the greens he had grown in Guanajuato for more than 30 years.

The officials climbed into their trucks and disappeared into the fading sunlight. Only Raul Moreno, a balding government employee who had believed in Jose from the beginning, remained.

"We would normally keep these huge vegetables for research," he said to Garcia, "or sell them for the government. But since we took you from your farm, you may sell them yourself and keep the money."

The next day, the poor families of Tamaulipas added very large vegetables to their meager diets - given to them free of charge by Jose Carmen Garcia, the uneducated farmer from Guanajuato.

A disappointed but not embittered man, Garcia still wonders why, having passed the test, the government has refused to acknowledge what he has done.

The officials of the agriculture department had promised a visit by President Jose Lopez Portillo and official recognition, perhaps a news conference where the President would bestow a medal on Jose, or possibly fly him to Mexico City to proclaim his formula to the world.

If the President himself couldn't make it, the officials said, at least there would be a visit by the Minister of Agriculture.

However, there has been no visit by the President or his Minister of Agriculture, no news conference, nothing.

Asked why he thought no official took him seriously, Jose scratched his head for a moment. Finally he replied: "They took it personally."

Garcia has no wish to keep the secret of this annual phenomenon to himself. He believes vegetables like his could end hunger everywhere in the world if grown in other countries. For three decades, he has attempted to enlist the interest and support of Mexican governmental agencies, but has encountered only disinterest or disbelief. Official have not been able to deny the existence of Jose's outsized cabbages, onions and greens, but they consider his story of how they are grown as far-fetched and - in a manner of speaking - out of this world.

The Jolly Green Giant has met his match

SAN DIEGO -- Bill Robinson has a 10-pound onion in his freezer at home.

Behind the gargantuan vegetable is a tale, difficult to believe, of humanoids in a tunnel beneath a volcano in Mexico.

Even if the explanation is nonsense, there is no denying the reality of the onion, or of the photographs Robinson has of cabbages 3 feet wide and collard greens up to 5 feet long.

Robinson is the information officer for the San Diego police Department. Reporters generally give him high marks for credibility.

It was while vacationing in Mexico, Robinson said, that he was introduced to farmer Jose Carmen Garcia, a copyright story in San Diego Home and Garden magazine reported.

When Garcia takes his produce to market in Valle de Santiago, a village 260 miles northwest of Mexico city, people gather to marvel at his huge onions, cabbage weighing 44 to 60 pounds and collard greens as big as palm fronds. They are grown in a three-acres plot that Garcia plows with a horse or a mule. And they're as tender and tasty as normal-sized vegetables.

Garcia, 50, does not use fertilizer, and he gets his seeds at the village general store.

A villager, Oscar Arredondo, intrigued by a radish the size of a softball asked Garcia his secret.

Garcia told him that in 1947, as a youth of 17 struggling to make ends meet on the farm inherited from his father, he met a stranger, who looked and talked like a Mexican peasant.

The stranger said he had been held captive by tall, fair humanoids in a tunnel beneath a volcano. His captors spoke gibberish, he said, and lived on the outsized vegetables they grew.

He said he had memorized the magic formula they used to achieve growth and sketched it on a scrap of paper. He told Garcia to concentrate on the symbols and that after a period of time, the "message" would become clear, then walked away.

After several sleepless nights, Garcia told Arredondo, he got the revelation, whatever it was. He planted the seeds and has produced gigantic vegetables ever since.

Arredondo wrote about Garcia in a newspaper and a Mexico city magazine, Impacto.

Garcia, the article said, would take on anyone in a crop-growing contest. The Mexican government's Agriculture Ministry officials took him up on the challenge.

The ministry officials laid out two 20-acre plots. A team of ministry experts and farmers handpicked from a cooperative, using fertilizers, worked one of them. Garcia, with no help except his formula, worked the other.

The ministry team and the cooperative farmers brought in 30 tons od produce per acre. Garcia brought in 106 tons.

A ministry official thanked Garcia for his time and told him he could sell the produce. This disappointed Garcia, who had expected to be summoned to Mexico City to reveal the formula to the government, which did not even keep samples.

Robinson said he met Arredondo by chance at a sidewalk cafe and heard the strange tale.

"Why isn't the world interested?" Arredondo asked.

Robinson said he was, and Arredondo took him to Garcia's farm. That is where Robinson got the 10-pound onion he is keeping in his freezer.

Robinson said he asked Garcia why the government experts did not express an interest in his secret after his victory over them in the crop-growing competition.

"Perhaps," he replied, "they took it personally."

[Photo caption:] United Press International
Neighbor and Arredondo hold cabbage grown by the magic known to Garcia, right.

Farmer's secret from outer space

SAN DIEGO (UP) -- Every now and then Bill Robinson takes the 10-pound onion out of his freezer and contemplates it.

Behind the gargantuan vegetable lies the strange tale, difficult to believe, of the wonder farmers from outer space.

Even if the explanation is nonsense, there is no denying the reality of the onion, or the photographs Robinson has of cabbages 3 feet wide and collard greens up to 5 feet long.

Robinson is the information officer for the San Diego police Department. Reporters generally give him high marks for credibility.

It was while vacationing in Mexico, Robinson said, that he was introduced to farmer Jose Carmen Garcia, a copyright report in San Diego Home and Garden magazine.

Garcia's produce is the wonder of the marketplace in Valle de Santiago, a village 280 miles northwest of Mexico City near Irapuato, he said. Townspeople gather to marvel at his eight pound onions, cabbages weighting from 44 to 60 pounds, and collard greens as big as palm fronds. Housewives swear they are as tender and tasty as normal-sized vegetables.

Yet, Garcia, 50, plows his 3-acre plot behind a mule or a horse, just like his neighbors, buys the same seed at the village general store, and does not use fertilizers.

A local photographer, Oscar Arredondo, intrigued by a radish the size of a softball asked Garcia his secret.

Garcia told him that in 1947, as a youth of 17 struggling to make ends meet on the farm inherited from his father, he met a stranger, who looked and talked like a Mexican peasant.

The stranger said he had been held captive by tall, fair humanoids in a tunnel beneath a nearby volcano. His captors spoke unintelligible gibberish, he said, and lived on the outsize vegetables.

He said he had memorized their magic formula; which he sketched on a scrap of paper. He told Garcia to concentrate on the symbols and that after a period of time, the "message" would become clear, then walked away.

After several sleepless nights, Garcia got the revelation - whatever it was - planted the seeds and has produced gigantic vegetables ever since.

Arredondo wrote about Garcia in the Irapuato newspaper, El Alacran and a Mexico city magazine, Impacto.

An imaginative Agriculture Ministry official took up on Garcia's challenge to prove his crop-growing prowess in a grow-off against nay farmer on a neutral soil.

The ministry laid out two 20-acre plots near Campo de Tangasneque in Tampico state in December 1978. The competing track was farmed by a team of ministry experts and local farmers handpicked from a nearby cooperative, using fertilizers.

At harvest time, the results were tallied. Garcia still has the tote sheets, he said, showing the ministry team averaged 30 tons of product per acre, compared to his 106 tons.

A ministry official thanked Garcia for his time and told him he could sell the produce, disappointing Garcia, who had expected to be summoned to Mexico City to reveal the formula to the government, which did not even keep samples.

"Why isn't the world interested?" Arredondo asked Robinson in the chance sidewalk cafe encounter in Irapuato that put Robinson on Garcia's trail.

Robinson and Arredondo went to the farm north of town where Garcia presented Robinson with the monumental onion. Why didn't the government's experts give him recognition?

"Perhaps," he replied, "they took it personally."

[Photo caption:] UPI
Farmer Jose Carmen Garcia, right, and one of his giant cabbages, being held by Garcia's neighbor and Oscar Arredondo, center.

A Spaceman's Green Thumb

Housewives swear they are as tender and tatsy as normal sized vegetables

SAN DIEGO (UPI) -- Every now and then Bill Robinson takes the 10-pound onion out of his freezer and contemplates it.

Behind the gargantuan vegetable lies the strange tale, difficult to believe, of the wonder farmers from outer space.

Even if the explanation is nonsense, there is no denying the reality of the onion, or the photographs Robinson has of cabbages 3 feet wide and collard greens up to 5 feet long.

Robinson is the information officer for the San Diego police Department. Reporters generally give him high marks for credibility.

It was while vacationing in Mexico, Robinson said, that he was introduced to farmer Jose Carmen Garcia, a copyright report in San Diego Home and Garden magazine.

Garcia's produce is the wonder of the marketplace in Valle de Santiago, a village 280 miles northwest of Mexico City near Irapuato, he said. Townspeople gather to marvel at his eight pound onions, cabbages weighting from 44 to 60 pounds, and collard greens as big as palm fronds. Housewives swear they are as tender and tasty as normal-sized vegetables.

Yet, Garcia, 50, plows his 3-acre plot behind a mule or a horse, just like his neighbors, buys the same seed at the village general store, and does not use fertilizers.

A local photographer, Oscar Arredondo, intrigued by a radish the size of a softball asked Garcia his secret.

Garcia told him that in 1947, as a youth of 17 struggling to make ends meet on the farm inherited from his father, he met a stranger, who looked and talked like a Mexican peasant.

The stranger said he had been held captive by tall, fair humanoids in a tunnel beneath a nearby volcano. His captors spoke unintelligible gibberish, he said, and lived on the outsize vegetables.

He said he had memorized their magic formula; which he sketched on a scrap of paper. He told Garcia to concentrate on the symbols and that after a period of time, the "message" would become clear. Then he walked away.

After several sleepless nights, Garcia got the revelation - whatever it was - planted the seeds and has produced gigantic vegetables ever since.

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Farmer Jose Carmen Garcia (at right in photo) and a friend show off one of the gigantic cabbages he grows near Irapuato, Mexico, as the result of a "magic" formula (below) he says belongs to mysterious "humanoids."
UPI

Mexico Loses Its Interest In Giant-Vegetable Grower

VALLEDESANTIAGO, Mexico (UPI) -- For three months, Mexico's wonder farmer has been deluged with questions about how he produces 60-pound cabbages, 10-pound onions and collard greens the size of palm fronds.

Yet the Mexican government lost interest when J. Carmen Garcia offered to tell his secret to help feed the poor.

Garcia maintained that his success came from a formula on a scrap of paper given him by a stranger who claimed to have been held captive in an underground city of extraterrestrial beings. Now, Garcia has entrusted what he calls "the method" to the mystical Roscicrucian Order of San Jose, Calif., for the benefit of mankind.

Garcia, whose perennial giant vegetables made him a folk hero in his Guanajuato state valley 260 miles northwest of Mexico City, was challenged by Agriculture ministry agronomists to a grow off in December 1977.

The context, on identical side-by-side plots, was conducted at the ministry's Tangasneque experimental station near Tampico. when the April 1978 harvest was in, the unschooled farmer and his associate, Oscar Arredondo, had pu the government agronomists to shame.

A ministry spokesman, researching the results of the contest at the request of UPI, said:

"In cabbage alone, Garcia outgrew the agronomists 107 tons per hectare (2.5 acres) to five tons per hectare. However, government experts determined that his large produce was less nutritious than normal-sized produce and the government decided not to pursue the matter."

Last February, UPI distributed an illustrated dispatch about Garcia based on an article by Bill Robinson, a San Diego police information officer, who happened upon the farmer and his big vegetables while on a Mexican vacation. Inundated by more than 1,000 letter requests for more information, Robinson visited Garcia again.

"I don't want to talk any more about how I got that formula. That's not important," Garcia said, pushing back his straw hat and leaning on his shovel as he irrigated his tidy, three-acre parcel. "What is important is that the way to grow giant vegetables has been put in a safe place for the benefit of mankind.

"People have offered to take me to the United States and to Germany to teach my method, but I prefer to stay right here. People offer me money for my method. I don't tell. I will tell you just this: A farmer must change his mentality before he can change the size of his produce."

He refused to part with some of is miracle seeds.

A man named Arredondo, who is the village photographer and half-owner with Garcia of the wonder farm, said, "The secret is that the seeds are energized before planting. The chosen depository for the benefit of humanity is the Rosicrucian Order."

Arthur Piepenbrink, supreme secretary Rosicrucian Order, issued a laconic confirmation of the order's interest in the formula from its San Jose headquarters though spokesman Christian Knueson:

"We went down to Mexico and took a look. We were given the formula and had no objection to analyzing it. We do not have the faintest idea whether it is valid or not."

A 'Superfarmer'

VALLE DE SANTIAGO, Mexico - Mexico's wonder farmer, J. Carmen Garcia, has been deluged with questions about how he produces 60-pound cabbages, 10-pound onions and collard greens the size of palm fronds.

Yet the Mexican government lost interest when he offered to tell his secret to help feed the poor, and now Garcia's secret, what he calls "the method,".

Garcia, whose perennial giant vegetables made him a folk hero in his Guanajuato state valley 260 miles northwest of Mexico City, was challenged by Agriculture Ministry agronomists in a grow off in December 1977.

The context, on identical side-by-side plots, was conducted at the ministry's Tangasneque experimental station near Tampico. when the April 1978 harvest was in, the unschooled farmer and his associate, Oscar Arredondo, had put the government agronomists to shame. Yet, the results virtually were suppressed and the government did not follow up with Garcia, who returned somewhat embittered to his valley.

A ministry spokesman said, "In cabbage alone, Garcia outgrew the agronomists 107 tons per hectare (2.5 acres) to five tons per hectare. However, government experts determined that his large produce was less nutritious than normal-sized produce and the government decided not to pursue the matter."

PERHAPS THE government was put off by Garcia's steadfast avowal that his success came from contemplating a formula of symbols on a scap of paper given him by a stranger who claimed to have been held captive in an underground city by extraterrestrial beings.

Oscar Arredondo, co-owner with Garcia of the wonder farm was more informative: "The secret is that the seeds are energized before planting. The chosen depository for the benefit of humanity is the Rosicrucian Order."

Green Thumb 'secret' told

SAN DIEGO (UPI) -- The famous Mexican farmer is growing his giant vegetables again after a three-year hiatus, and his secret formula is out - sun, water and soil combined with a touch of bioelectricmagnetism and a dash of hocus pocus.

Jose Carmen Garcia of Valle de Santiago, Guanajuato, Mexico became the marvel of his marketplace in the late 1970's with 10-pound onions, palm fron-sized collard greens and the like.

A wandering San Diego police information officer Bill Robinson, happened upon Garcia and wrote an illustrated copyrighted story in San Diego Home and Garden magazine, November 1979.

A briefly skeptical UPI reporter hefted an 11-pound onion (which Robinson kept in his freezer to this day), got official confirmation from the Mexican Agriculture Ministry that Garcia had won a growing contest against Ministry agronomists in 1978, and wrote a dispatch that brought Garcia instant world fame.

Robinson and this UPI reporter visited Garcia in May 1981 and found (1) no giant vegetable and (2) Garcia grousing about drought and complaining of interruptions by would-be green thumbs from all over the world vainly seeking to learn his secret.

"The way to grow giant vegetables has been put in a safe place for the benefit of humanity," he said then, disclosing that the chosen depository was the Rosicrucian Order, a mystical, world-side educational organization based in San Jose, Calif.

He shrugged off as intended spoof his account to Robinson that the formula had been given him by a stranger who claimed he got it from extra-terrestrial visitors.

The probers met Garcia's partner in the erstwhile miracle farm, Oscar Arredondo, owner of a photography studio in town. But don't ask about the formula, he said, the Rosicrucians would take of that to feed all mankind.

There ensued an annual harvest season ritual of phone calls from San Diego to he quaint village nestled among volcano craters: "Arredondo, any giant vegetables this year?" "No, perhaps next."

So it was in 1981, 1982.

Voilà! 1983: "We have cabbages that weigh about 25 kilos (over 50 pounds) and measure a meter across," Arredondo exulted. "I shall send you a photograph."

He did and it was.

Kristie Knutson, public relation director for the Rosicrucian Order, says the organization has now had time to analyze Garcia's formula.

"We conducted agricultural experiments based on the formula of Garcia and Arredondo with some success, she said. "We got larger than average vegetables, but the nutritional analysis was negative, too fibrous a quality."

And the formula?

"Quite frankly, some superstition was involved, but mixed up in that were some scientific processes including bioelectricmagnetic fields which Rosicrucians and others have been studying for many years.

"There are other variables, lunar cycles and so on, but basically you hold the seed in your hand. By certain deep breathing you can possibly change the bioelectromagnetic field of an object. Our research on this right now centers on the healing of damaged tissue," she said.

Secret of huge vegetables revealed

SAN DIEGO (UPI) -- The famous Mexican farmer is growing his giant vegetables again after a three-year hiatus, and his secret formula is out - sun, water and soil combined with a touch of bioelectricmagnetism and a dash of hocus pocus.

Jose Carmen Garcia of Valle de Santiago, Guanajuato, Mexico became the marvel of his marketplace in the late 1970's with 10-pound onions, palm fron-sized collard greens and the like.

A wandering San Diego police information officer Bill Robinson, happened upon Garcia and wrote an illustrated copyrighted story in San Diego Home and Garden magazine, November 1979.

A briefly skeptical UPI reporter hefted an 11-pound onion (which Robinson kept in his freezer to this day), got official confirmation from the Mexican Agriculture Ministry that Garcia had won a growing contest against Ministry agronomists in 1978, and wrote a dispatch that brought Garcia instant world fame.

Robinson and this UPI reporter visited Garcia in May 1981 and found (1) no giant vegetable and (2) Garcia grousing about drought and complaining of interruptions by would-be green thumbs from all over the world vainly seeking to learn his secret.

"The way to grow giant vegetables has been put in a safe place for the benefit of humanity," he said then, disclosing that the chosen depository was the Rosicrucian Order, a mystical, world-side educational organization based in San Jose, Calif.

He shrugged off as intended spoof his account to Robinson that the formula had been given him by a stranger who claimed he got it from extra-terrestrial visitors.

The probers met Garcia's partner in the erstwhile miracle farm, Oscar Arredondo, owner of a photography studio in town. But don't ask about the formula, he said, the Rosicrucians would take of that to feed all mankind.

There ensued an annual harvest season ritual of phone calls from San Diego to he quaint village nestled among volcano craters: "Arredondo, any giant vegetables this year?" "No, perhaps next."

So it was in 1981, 1982.

Voilà! 1983: "We have cabbages that weigh about 25 kilos (over 50 pounds) and measure a meter across," Arredondo exulted. "I shall send you a photograph."

He did and it was.

Kristie Knutson, public relation director for the Rosicrucian Order, says the organization has now had time to analyze Garcia's formula.

"We conducted agricultural experiments based on the formula of Garcia and Arredondo with some success, she said. "We got larger than average vegetables, but the nutritional analysis was negative, too fibrous a quality."

And the formula?

"Quite frankly, some superstition was involved, but mixed up in that were some scientific processes including bioelectricmagnetic fields which Rosicrucians and others have been studying for many years.

"There are other variables, lunar cycles and so on, but basically you hold the seed in your hand. By certain deep breathing you can possibly change the bioelectromagnetic field of an object. Our research on this right now centers on the healing of damaged tissue," she said.

[Photo caption:] VALLE DE SANTIAGO, Mexico - Oscar Arredondo, farming partner of Jose Garcia, displays a giant cabbage grown on the farm.

Mexican Farmer Again Growing Giant Vegetables

SAN DIEGO (UPI) -- The famous Mexican farmer is growing his giant vegetables again after a three-year hiatus, and his secret formula is out - sun, water and soil combined with a touch of bioelectricmagnetism and a dash of hocus pocus.

Jose Carmen Garcia of Valle de Santiago, Guanajuato, Mexico became the marvel of his marketplace in the late 1970's with 10-pound onions, palm fron-sized collard greens and the like.

A wandering San Diego police information officer Bill Robinson, happened upon Garcia and wrote an illustrated copyrighted story in San Diego Home and Garden magazine, November 1979.

A briefly skeptical UPI reporter hefted an 11-pound onion (which Robinson kept in his freezer to this day), got official confirmation from the Mexican Agriculture Ministry that Garcia had won a growing contest against Ministry agronomists in 1978, and wrote a dispatch that brought Garcia instant world fame.

Robinson and this UPI reporter visited Garcia in May 1981 and found (1) no giant vegetable and (2) Garcia grousing about drought and complaining of interruptions by would-be green thumbs from all over the world vainly seeking to learn his secret.

"The way to grow giant vegetables has been put in a safe place for the benefit of humanity," he said then, disclosing that the chosen depository was the Rosicrucian Order, a mystical, world-side educational organization based in San Jose, Calif.

He shrugged off as intended spoof his account to Robinson that the formula had been given him by a stranger who claimed he got it from extra-terrestrial visitors.

The probers met Garcia's partner in the erstwhile miracle farm, Oscar Arredondo, owner of a photography studio in town. But don't ask about the formula, he said, the Rosicrucians would take of that to feed all mankind.

There ensued an annual harvest season ritual of phone calls from San Diego to he quaint village nestled among volcano craters: "Arredondo, any giant vegetables this year?" "No, perhaps next."

So it was in 1981, 1982.

Voilà! 1983: "We have cabbages that weigh about 25 kilos (over 50 pounds) and measure a meter across," Arredondo exulted. "I shall send you a photograph."

He did and it was.

Kristie Knutson, public relation director for the Rosicrucian Order, says the organization has now had time to analyze Garcia's formula.

"We conducted agricultural experiments based on the formula of Garcia and Arredondo with some success, she said. "We got larger than average vegetables, but the nutritional analysis was negative, too fibrous a quality."

And the formula?

"Quite frankly, some superstition was involved, but mixed up in that were some scientific processes including bioelectricmagnetic fields which Rosicrucians and others have been studying for many years.

"There are other variables, lunar cycles and so on, but basically you hold the seed in your hand. By certain deep breathing you can possibly change the bioelectromagnetic field of an object. Our research on this right now centers on the healing of damaged tissue," she said.

[Photo caption:] VALLE DE SANTIAGO, Mexico - Oscar Arredondo, farming partner of Jose Garcia, displays a giant cabbage grown on the farm.

2.

Location. Valle De Santiago Mexico

Date: 1947

Time: morning

A young farmer was out plowing his field when he was suddenly confronted by a very tall gaunt looking individual, that resembled an albino and with distorted features. The stranger told the farmer that he had been held captive by "humanoids" in the interior of a nearby inactive volcano. The stranger then sketched a formula on a piece of paper which he claimed was the secret to growing huge vegetables, he then walked away and disappeared. The farmer indeed has been able to grow giant vegetables ever since.

HC addition # 422

Source: Fortean Times # 33

Type: E Report of encounter with underground humanoid creature.

HSI: "6"

ROS: "7"

Comments: As far as I know the witness was still growing those huge vegetables in the late 70's. As far as the "humanoids" mentioned by the tall individual I don't know if there had been recorded encounters with those.

Giant Vegetables in Valle de Santiago

The Valley of Santiago, four hours from the Federal District of Mexico, in the State of Guanajuato, became famous throughout the world for its giant vegetables . In the mid-1970s a simple farmer, José Carmen García Martínez , managed to harvest chard, turnips, lettuce and other vegetables of enormous dimensions, in a really gigantic size.

This strange event put Valle de Santiago in the sights of many public figures related to or interested in unusual phenomena. Television channels of different countries met Don Carmen in his field. For example Jack Palance's daughter aired one of the reports of "Incredible but true!" Virginia Sendel Lemetre did the same for Televisa's "Magico Mexico" program. Also came Carmen Romano de Lopez Portillo, who brought the wizard Uri Geller to detect the "strange" emanations of the place.

Valle de Santiago has not stopped being in the news and a magnet for ufologists. Among its visitors were Pedro Ferriz Santacruz, Salvador Freixedo, Juan José Benítez, Fernando Jiménez del Oso, Sixto Paz and others.

The phenomena, although really surprising, had not gone beyond being a botanical curiosity but for the appearance of Óscar Arredondo Ramírez. This odd character, a tourism delegate from Valle de Santiago, is a professional photographer who has his studio and work on location, Fotografía México, on Calle de Juárez, is almost in the central square of Valle de Santiago. Arredondo's photography studio is an authentic gallery of the unusual. All the walls and cabinets are upholstered with fantastic images. There, frame after frame, are the photos of the ufologists with those of fifantic monsters, giant vegetables, faces of Christ and UFOs.

José Carmen García managed to obtain chard crops the size of a person (from 1.50 to 1.85 meters), cauliflower (cabbage) of 43 kilograms, onions of proportions similar to those of a child's head, radishes of 20 kilos, cabbages that barely could be carried by four people, turnips and giant lettuce...

THE GIANT VEGETABLES.

Arredondo advised José Carmen to say that the "secret formula" came from the teachings of extraterrestrial beings who visited him long ago. According to Arredondo, the method to "manufacture" these vegetables was based on astrological processes dictated by entities from other worlds. Vegetables grow that size because, through astrology, the most appropriate day and time is chosen to sow the seed. The planting place is determined by a pendulum. Each seed is given a kind of astrological chart to determine the best conditions for its sowing. In that way a chard could be of Aries sign, while a turnip would be Aquarius or an onion could be Pisces. Ridiculous? Yes! And yet many people believed that nonsense.

What were Arredondo's intentions? In addition to providing a "proof" of the reality of the UFO phenomenon (subject that is an obsession for the photographer), it could attract the attention of the authorities to their city (and their person), and create a pole of agricultural development to generate a greater economic impact in the area. For that reason, Óscar managed to establish contact with important people such as the Ministry of Agriculture and Hydraulic Resources, engineer Francisco Merino Rábago, with whom they were invited on September 20, 1977 in the offices of the Ministry itself. In that place Óscar told this:

"Imagine the Valley of Santiago with the craters of the Luminarias valley infested with giant vegetables and fruits; I think the problem of hunger would be less. But if I reveal how to make giant vegetables, the rich will become richer."

In this meeting Óscar and Carmen García offered to deliver the formula in exchange for two conditions being met: the creation of a national park in the city of Valle de Santiago and the construction on the site of an agricultural school, precisely inside the crater called La Joya de las Flores.

Arredondo proposed to carry out an contest between the technicians of the Ministry and the farmers of the valleys. They would plant different vegetables in a neutral lot in Tangasneque, near Tampico, Tamaulipas. The experiment was made in 1977. The field was divided into two equal plots of approximately 20 hectares each. The agronomists sowed the vegetables using conventional techniques and using fertilizers, according to the methods learned at the University of Chapingo. The peasants used their own procedures, "according to their secret knowledge and understanding". Both groups monitored each other.

In April of 1978 came the time of harvest. The farmers obtained five to eight tons per hectare, while the agronomists easily exceeded 100 (107 to be exact) . Upon learning the results, Merino fled from the photographer and did not want to hear anymore about him.

But Óscar tells the story differently. For him, they were the winners, while the defeated were the agronomists. But if that had been true I doubt very much that Merino Rábago would have let go the opportunity to become the savior of the country (and perhaps the world), by showing urbi et orbi the benefits of a new harvest method that would eliminate the roots of Earth feeding problems. The Secretary of Agriculture forgot the matter because, besides obtaining a much poorer harvest, the fruits obtained by the astrological-magical-extraterrestrial method were almost pure water. Indeed, the large volume was achieved by the large accumulation of water in the roots, so that a huge cabbage of 45 kilograms had the same nutritional value as a normal cabbage. Someone who would eat these vegetables would die of hunger (though not thirst).

1947. Morning.

VALLE DE SANTIAGO (GUANAJUATO : MEXICO)

17 year old Jose Carmen Garcia met a very tall gaunt looking man, who resembled an albino with gaunt, hollow distorted features distorted features. The stranger told the farmer that he had been held captive by "humanoids" in the interior of a nearby inactive volcano. His captives spoke in an unintelligible gibberish and lived on giant vegetables. The stranger then sketched a formula on a piece of paper which he claimed was the secret to growing huge vegetables, which he had memorised. He then walked away The farmer indeed has been able to grow giant vegetables ever since.

Fortean Times 33 p31 citing San Francisco Chronicle 9 February 1980, Stillwater (Minnesota) Gazette 30 May 1980, North Shore News 8 June 1980, all? citing investigation by William Robinson of San Diego

L'homme qui parle avec les plantes

Un nouveau paradigme agricole

Le 4 Juil 2018 15 822

Les passionnés de botanique et de jardinage disent souvent qu'ils parlent à leurs plantes pour qu'elles s'épanouissent. Légende ou non, toujours est-il qu'au Mexique, un homme applique cette consigne à la lettre. Il parvient à faire pousser des légumes géants, simplement en leur parlant!

Miracle ou légende ?

Obtenir des choux de 45 kg, des feuilles de blettes de 1,50 m, des pieds de maïs de 5 m de haut, 150 tonnes d'oignons à l'hectare, au lieu de 16 tonnes en moyenne, etc. Celui qui peut accomplir ces prodiges par des techniques respectueuses de l'environnement s'appelle don Jose Carmen Garcia Martinez.

Dans les années 1970, devant faire face aux difficultés générées par une terre qui ne produisait rien, le jeune cultivateur ne désespéra pas. Au lieu d'avoir recours à des engrais et autres intrants chimiques, celui-ci s'est mis à lui parler. Selon lui, la terre, les plantes, ont une forme d'intelligence qui leur permet de communiquer avec l'Homme. Il suffit de savoir comment leur parler, et surtout les écouter !

L'agriculteur parvient à cultiver sans pesticides, à utiliser très peu de fertilisants par rapport à l'agriculture conventionnelle (il en utilise 700 g par ha versus 500 kg par ha en agriculture intensive), à faire pousser des légumes sur des terres salées, à rendre les plantes plus résistantes aux maladies, etc.

Don José Carmen apporte des solutions à la fois concrètes, simples et peu coûteuses aux problèmes que pose l'agriculture moderne : pollution, destruction de la biodiversité, etc. Son savoir-faire pourrait être une prodigieuse réponse face aux problèmes écologiques et alimentaires dans le monde...

Comment a-t-il fait?

Lorsqu'on lui demande comment il peut arriver à de tels prodiges, Don José Carmen explique sa méthode : « Les gens qui ne développent par leur culture sont ceux qui ne changent pas leur manière de penser. Les plantes ont une vie comme n'importe quelle personne, n'importe quel animal, n'importe quelle chose. Il faut apprendre à les connaître, les traiter avec douceur, elles le comprennent, elles savent."

Il précise : « Les hommes n'ont pas tous des affinités avec les plantes, et les plantes avec les hommes. C'est une question de compatibilité, comme les rhésus sanguins entre les êtres humains. Les plantes elles-mêmes peuvent se regrouper par affinité, en fonction de leur énergie".

Il ajoute : « Je ne crois pas aux fertilisants chimiques parce qu'ils brûlent la terre. Pour moi, le meilleur fertilisant, c'est la conversation avec les plantes. La terre s'alimente avec les déchets de la dernière récolte".

La compréhension des plantes, êtres vivants

Pour lui, ce sont les plantes elles-mêmes qui peuvent nous apprendre comment les cultiver. Il communique avec elles, il dit aussi « utiliser l'énergie temporelle, d'une autre dimension » suivant ses propres mots.

Il rejoignait sans le savoir les théories des jardiniers de Findhorn et de Perelandra, celles de Sir Georges Treyvelyan et de Machaelle Small Wright. Findhorn, c'est un petit village perdu au fond de l'Écosse, pas très loin du célèbre Loch Ness., et Perelandra est situé en Virginie, au Sud-Ouest de Washington.

Voir l'article : Le Jardin de Perelandra

Au Mexique, tout le monde le sollicite de l'agriculteur au chimiste en passant par l'agronome ou l'ingénieur.

Le miracle, c'est Don José Carmen Garcia Martinez qui, avec son amour pour les plantes, les paroles qu'il leur adresse et d'anciennes recettes aztèques, a réussi à cultiver des légumes géants.

Résultats obtenus

Il a produit ainsi des choux de 45 kg, des pieds de maïs de 5 m de haut, des feuilles de blette de 1,5 m de long, 7 à 8 courges par pied (1 à 2 habituellement), 150 tonnes d'oignons par hectare (16 tonnes normalement).

Un journaliste péruvien, Yvon Perez Barreto, est allé trouver Don Carmen chez lui et a raconté tout ce qu'il y a vu.

Mais ce n'est pas le seul témoin : l'Université d'agronomie de Chapingo (Mexique), sous l'autorité du Pr Nicolas Cerda, spécialiste des sols, a comparé les résultats de Don Carmen avec ceux obtenus par les méthodes de l'Université sur des terrains contigus.

Des ingénieurs du Ministère de l'agriculture mexicain sont venus analyser l'eau, les légumes, les semences et surtout le terrain volcanique de l'agriculteur. Rien de particulier n'a été décelé. Du coup, ils l'invitèrent à cultiver selon sa méthode, dans un autre lieu, la vallée de Tamaulipas. Cette terre, très différente de celle qu'il travaillait dans son village, donna les mêmes résultats.

Pour lui, les plantes peuvent nous apprendre comment les cultiver. Il communique avec elles, il dit aussi utiliser l'énergie temporelle, d'une autre dimension, suivant ses propres mots.

Parmi les savoir-faire de Don Carmen, on note :

• cultiver sans pesticides et multiplier jusqu'à dix fois la production agricole;
• utiliser 700 g de fertilisant par hectare, au lieu des 500 kg habituels dans l'agriculture intensive ; cultiver sur terres salées;
• créer de nouvelles plantes résistant aux maladies, non transgéniques au début, sur sa terre presque stérile, il s'asseyait à côté des plantes et leur demandait de l'aider.

Son secret est l'amour

Don José Carmen est persuadé que c'est grâce à la communication qu'il a établie mentalement avec les plantes qu'il a obtenu ces résultats miraculeux.

Pour lui, le secret c'est l'amour qui lui donne cette main verte.

Une autre chose que Don José sait faire, c'est planter des arbres pour attirer la pluie. En choisissant minutieusement les essences des arbres qu'il va planter, dans un tracé polygonal.

Cette expérience a été menée à l'université de Chapingo, avec laquelle il a passé une convention de recherche. Et ça marche.

Hélas, cette expérience a été menée alors que le recteur de l'université allait prendre sa retraite. Et le premier geste du nouveau recteur a été de couper tous ces arbres.

Voici un extrait du rapport officiel relatant les résultats:

"Parcelle située dans le désert du Vizcaino où il n'avait pas plu depuis six ans : une fois la plantation terminée selon les indications de don José Carmen Garcia Martinez, la pluie a commencé à tomber à verse.

Sur ce site où il n'avait pas plu depuis trois ans, il s'est mis à pleuvoir à verse vingt-quatre heures après que le dernier arbre eut été planté.

Quant à la parcelle située dans l'état d'Oaxaca et qui clôturait le circuit des trois zones, avant même que la plantation soit terminée, il s'est mis à pleuvoir en abondance comme sur les deux autres sites."

Autre observation importante, les précipitations mesurées sur chacun des sites ont couvert une zone de trente kilomètres autour des zones reboisées selon les indications de José Carmen Garcia.

Son histoire à voir et à lire

Son histoire difficilement concevable pour tout un chacun, mais tellement simple : ouvrir son cœur pour parler aux plantes, déstabilise nos prétendues connaissances scientifiques… Il la raconte dans son livre : L'homme qui parle avec les plantes, éditions Clair de Terre.

Son livre donne des tas de recettes, de trucs, qui pourraient révolutionner la planète, tout en changeant la mentalité humaine : l'amour à la place du profit immédiat. Quelques savoir-faire de don José Carmen présentés dans ce livre:

• Utiliser 500 fois moins d'engrais à l'hectare !
• Créer des plantes non transgéniques et résistantes aux maladies.
• Cultiver sur des terres salées
• Étonnamment… faire pleuvoir !

Don José Carmen explique dans son livre:

"Au début" raconte-t-il "j'ai commencé à m'asseoir auprès des plantes et je me suis mis à les observer. Puis je leur ai demandé de m'aider. Je suis convaincu que les plantes ont une forme d'intelligence qui leur permet de communiquer avec nous, il suffit de les écouter."

"Notre univers est une grande machine, et la Création est comme un grand computer, avec des informations qui vont et viennent… quand on plante, il faut être précis, dans le détail, pour qu'une fois la dernière pièce assemblée toute l'information parte de la plante vers l'univers."

"Parfois, pendant la nuit, je sens que mes plantes ont soif, alors je marche jusqu'à mon champ, et je les arrose jusqu'à ce qu'elles soient satisfaites. C'est absurde d'appliquer à la lettre les conseils d'arrosage, car, comme les hommes, chaque plante est différente."

"Les hommes n'ont pas tous des affinités avec les plantes, et les plantes avec les hommes. C'est une question de compatibilité, comme les rhésus sanguins entre les êtres humains. Les plantes elles-mêmes peuvent se regrouper par affinité, en fonction de leur énergie."

Conclusions

Serait-il temps de réévaluer nos façons de faire et nos techniques ? Nous savons pourtant bien que nous nous dirigeons vers un cul-de-sac avec nos cultures intensives saupoudrées de cocktails chimiques et poisons comme les herbicides, pesticides et engrais chimiques et nitrates.

Notre matérialisme enfantin et prétentieux qui prétend tout savoir mais qui en fait a tout à apprendre de la vie, du respect des lois cosmiques universelles dont nous dépendons tous mais que nous ne respectons pas, s'appuie sur une science bâtarde au service du Dieu Commerce. Observez ce que peut faire un modeste agriculteur Mexicain, Don José Carmen Garcia Martinez, qui avec son amour pour les plantes, sans engrais chimiques, uniquement en respectant les lois de la nature comme le faisaient ses ancêtres précolombiens, en se mettant à son service dans la plus pure humilité, réussit à cultiver des légumes géants et décupler la production.

Monsanto et autres profiteurs de l'alimentation de ce monde qui ont la prétention de « sauver la planète » avec leurs OGM et pesticides qui rendent les agriculteurs dépendants, nous font démonstration que leurs objectifs ne sont pas là, et devraient honte lorsque leurs résultats sont comparés à ceux de cet homme.

Lorsque l'on constate les dégâts de l'agriculture moderne sur nos sols, nos lacs, nos rivières, nos fleuves, les scientifiques cérémonieux patentés diplômés qui jouent avec les forces de la nature sont comparables à ces enfants qui jouent avec des allumettes sans réfléchir aux dangers dont ils menacent leurs frères humains autant qu'eux-mêmes.

Don José Carmen Garcia Martinez vient nous démontrer par son travail, que la survie de la planète, notre survie à tous, passe par le respect et l'amour de la nature et de tous les êtres qui y vivent, et non pas par une course effrénée au profit destiné à servir les appétits voraces et cupides de quelques-uns.

Il est grand temps de retrouver les vraies valeurs, celles qui sont au service de tous sans exception et quelque soit le règne considéré : minéral, végétal, animal et humain. C'est cette synergie générée par le respect et l'amour de tous, ainsi que par le partage équitable, qui nous permettra d'accéder a un réel niveau de bien-être et de bonheur qui n'attend que nous, que nous décidions d'y accéder et non d'attendre que quelques autres décident pour nous ce à quoi nous avons droit...

Jean-Paul Thouny
Thérapeute énergéticien, Voiron (Isère) France
Courriel : jean-paul@thouny fr
Site web : www.jean-paul.thouny.fr

Principales sources:

• Consoglobe : www.consoglobe.com
• Inexpliqué en débat : www.inexplique-endebat.com
• Jardinage naturel : www.jardinagenaturel.wordpress.com

Pour aller plus loin

L'homme qui parle avec les plantes
de Yvo Pérez Barreto - Éditions Clair de terre

Des choux de 45 kilos, des pieds de maïs de 5 mètres de haut, des feuilles de blettes d'un mètre et demi, 7 ou 8 courges par pied, 150 tonnes d'oignons par hectare, lorsque la récolte moyenne est de 16 tonnes à l'hectare, etc.

L'homme qui peut accomplir ces prodiges par des techniques respectueuses de l'environnement s'appelle don José Carmen. D'où cet agriculteur mexicain tire-t-il ses connaissances ? Comment parvenir à de tels résultats ?

Chimistes, agronomes et ingénieurs ont suivi le travail de cet homme hors du commun. Ce livre expose leurs observations et détaille les expériences répétées avec succès dans le cadre scientifique de la plus importante université d'agronomie du Mexique.

Quelques-uns des savoir-faire de don José Carmen présentés dans ce livre:

• Cultiver sans pesticide et doubler la production agricole !
• Utiliser efficacement 500 fois moins de fertilisant à l'hectare !
• Créer des plantes non transgéniques et résistantes aux maladies
• Cultiver sur des terres salées.
• Et étonnement.. faire pleuvoir !

Ce livre ne se trouvant pratiquement plus, car épuisé et non réédité, vous pouvez le télécharger en .pdf avec le lien suivant : www.agniculture.net