Wasabi Maestro (Michel Van Mellaerts) offer a free training course to potential Wasabi growers. The 25 year plus veteran in growing Wasabia japonica now spills the beans on what is required to be successful in the secretive commercially growing wasabi community.

Getting training in the secretive world of Commercial Wasabi Growing is difficult and virtually unheard of.

The Wasabi Maestro (Michel Van Mellaerts) has released a free wasabi growing training course to get people who may be interested in growing wasabi to understand what they may be getting involved in.

After 25 years plus in the industry with many growing and processing innovations under his belt, Michel has decided that the only way to get more wasabi available to the food and health market is to open the doors to the vault and let some of the secrets escape.

The number of wasabi growers in the world has been reducing over the last decade as people retire and their family do not want to take on the hard work and responsibility of a wasabi farm. This is reducing the amount of wasabi available on a worldwide basis just when science is finding some of the health benefits of consuming the plant Wasabia japonica (True Wasabi).

Michel says that “the future of wasabi is not in food, but in health products. Science now has many studies that show that Wasabi kills cancer cells without harming healthy cells, reduces blood pressure, reduces the chance of heart problems and is beneficial in the treatment of a number of other human ailments. Get more information about medical uses of Wasabia japonica here.

With demand increasing, and supply decreasing more wasabi growers are needed now and into the foreseeable future.

It is for this reason that Michel has decided to make the secret growing information available to those people who go through the Free Introduction to Commercial Wasabi Growing Course and who are not put off by the plain unvarnished truth.

Who is Michel Van Mellaerts?

Michel Van Mellaerts (The Wasabi Maestro) is the recognized World authority and expert on the practical Growing, Processing and Marketing of Wasabia japonica. He and his wife have been commercially growing Wasabia japonica longer than anyone else outside Japan. Since 1990 in fact.

Trained as an Electrical and Mechanical Engineer he has invented and installed many improved growing systems into their farms. These enable high-quality Wasabia japonica to be grown anywhere in the World.

The Wasabi Maestroes have set up commercial Wasabi growing farms from the Arctic Circle to Southern New Zealand, including the Equator. They have worked with individual growers, national governments, and investment groups on four continents.

These growing systems have reduced growing times by nearly 67%, improved yield and quality of the Wasabia japonica rhizome, and increased the levels of active ingredients by nearly 100%. It is these active ingredients that independent scientific studies show kills cancer cells and improves human health.

They pioneered the use of Wasabia japonica in the Nutraceutical and Medical industries. They are at the leading edge of research into the benefits of Wasabia japonica on human and animal health.

The Wasabi Maestroes offer a Training, Design and Information service for potential and actual Wasabia japonica growers who only want to learn from the best. Others spend their time floundering around trying to find out what information is useful and what isn’t.

The Training has been proven and improved over the last 27 years plus of personal commercial Wasabia japonica growing. This has been hands on, getting wet and dirty work – not guesswork from behind a desk.

More information about the Free Introduction to Commercial Wasabi Growing Course can be found here.

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