About 50 minutes by car from Naha Airport. There is a chemical-free resort in Nakagami County. It is a place where you can spend a pleasant time, paying attention not only to food but also to lighting, clothing, and even amenities. The spa is also well equipped, and the hotel is so sustainable that yoga professionals and athletes visit.
Point 1: EM Wellness Resort, anyway, is happy to be chemical-free!
Just hearing the name of the hotel, “Kurashi no Fermentation,” you may wonder if it is a natural-type hotel. Many of you may have noticed that it is a natural-type hotel.
While many places present themselves as natural in fashion, this “EM Wellness Resort” is a rare resort that embodies eco-friendly living by adopting microorganism technology with a serious focus on fermentation.
Not only the food, but also the linens, pajamas, wallpaper, and furniture in the guest rooms are chemical-free. Even during cleaning, the rooms are sprayed with EM-fermented liquid, which removes stains and odors with the power of beneficial bacteria such as lactobacilli.
In addition, there is a spa with treatments using natural cosmetics, a jet bath, a silky bath, and a mist sauna, so you can heal your body to your heart’s content after a hard day’s work.
Point 2: EM Wellness Resort, additive-free, organic food is a delight!
The “EM” in EM Wellness refers to the useful microorganism group. Most of you probably have a big “? in most people’s heads.
At the restaurants of the EM Wellness Resort, everything from making dashi (soup stock) to making tofu is handmade from scratch. This results in a large amount of waste every day. Leftover food from the restaurant is also fermented with EM and used as fertilizer for the Sunshine Farm, a dedicated farm, and as flooring material for chicken coops.
When mixed with wood chips from logs in the same village and fermented, it is said to smell like forest soil after six months.
Furthermore, the chicken coops are sprayed with EM fermentation liquid once a week to suppress foul odors, and the flooring material and chicken manure are combined to form natural compost. The compost is then used again at Sunshine Farm to fertilize the vegetables and other crops grown there.
Eggs are produced in our own chicken coop, rice comes from contract farmers who use less agricultural chemicals, and vegetables are organic vegetables from our own farm and domestic vegetables from within and outside of the prefecture. Of course, we also use seasonings that are either homemade or carefully selected.
In this way, by circulating the things necessary for daily life without throwing away as much as possible, we can live comfortably without placing a burden on the environment and eliminating waste.
For travelers, it is only a few days, but being in such a situation allows them to relax both mentally and physically.
Point 3: The commitment to EM Wellness Resorts and private farms is amazing!
The EM Wellness Resort has its own farm, “Sunshine Farm,” about a 10-minute drive from the hotel, and the attention to detail there is amazing.
The farm uses no pesticides, chemical fertilizers, or herbicides, but instead utilizes EM technology, and also sprays the crops with the same “EM Activated Liquid” that is sprayed in the room. This not only improves crop growth, but also prevents pests and diseases.
Where normally pesticides would be used, the use of EM Activated Liquid is a method that is gentle on both the earth and the body.
Furthermore, the hens are fed on home-grown vegetables grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers and feed fermented with EM, and they drink water to which the EM active solution, rich in lactic acid bacteria and minerals, has been added, so their yolks have a very rich, thick, yet refreshing taste.
The pudding made with these eggs is superb, so please try it!
