150 tons of onions per hectare when the average harvest is 16 tons! Cabbages weighing 45 kgs, corn growing 5 or 6 meters high, white beet with 2 meters leaves, beetroot of 7 and 11 kgs and 7 or 8 gourds per plant.

This could evoke the fruits of paradise...

but we are simply in the Valley of Santiago practically at the heart of Mexico, before the plants of Don José Carmen, a modest farmer, who can revolutionize farming.

The nutritional quality and flavor of this vegetables have been confirmed by Jean-Marie Huvac, lecturer for the "laboratory of applied vegetal biology" at the Natural History Museum in Paris, and his experiments have been successfully repeated in the scientific setting of the University of Agronomy of Chapingo by Professor Nicolas Cerda.

What is at stake, is not only the prodigious growth, albeit amazing, of Don José Carmen's giant crops, but above unexplored perspectives concerning ecological and food problems in the world.

Few plants have been the object of such veneration as the holy mushrooms of Mexico. The Aztecs called them "the flesh of god" and used them in their ceremonies.

At Oaxaca is the biggest Rituals Center for the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Some of these psychotropic plants and their active substances which have the capacity to alter the mental state, can give us a fresh lead as to a better understanding of our brain. Which is the reason for which we were interested, in this film, in working with the ethnic group, the Mazatecs, the best connoisseurs of mushrooms in Mexico.

Mexico which astonished the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortez in the 16th century to the extent that he felt obliged to write to the king of Spain : "These is no need to send us European doctors, here the natives are more efficient."

A spiritualist center which deals with 20000 patients a week with "medium doctors", relieves the capital free of charge...

A magical oasis in the region of Tuxtlas in Veracruz, called "the witches cauldron" due to its long and prestigious history of therapy. In this locality, for the healers, it is the spirit of the plant which heals and not the plant itself.

THE MAN WHO SPEAKS TO THE PLANTS

Documentary - 26 min.

Yvo Perez Barreto was born in Peru.

Author, director, lecturer, he has travelled all over the world with his camera to show the knowledge, born of ancient traditions can help to find solutions to the health problems encountered by our industrialised world.

Documentary - 26 min.

Yvo Perez Barreto was born in Peru.

Author, director, lecturer, he has travelled all over the world with his camera to show the knowledge, born of ancient traditions can help to find solutions to the health problems encountered by our industrialised world.

Documentary - 26 min.

THE MAN WHO SPEAKS TO THE PLANTS

© Magique Trotter - 2011

Yvo Perez Barreto

MAYA RAIN ON ANDALUSIA

  Causing rain in deserts is a real dream offers Don José Carmen, a mexican farmer. He knows how to rain, increase production and many others wonders...

  «Make it rain»

  It is possible to imagine the incalculable assets that would represent...

In Mexico it is know as «the man who grows giant vegetables» without chemical fertilizers or pesticides. But he knows also to rain on desert land, using the techniques described in the ancient Mexican codices he was able to decipher.

  In 1989, several experiments were carried out by the Agronomy University of Chapingo, and he sends rain on three deserts it was a long time he had notfallen a drop of water.

Theses techniques are neither futurist visions, nor a romantic ideal.

  We brought Don José Carmen in Andalusia, and it make the feat to end five years of drought. Hardly had he completed his «circuit» that rained torrentially, wich brought out all the faithfull in procession to thank the virgin, all this you will see in this film that we have just completed.