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Lactobacillus For Corpses, Contaminated Water, Rotational Grazing

Drake opens with a warning about global fuel cutbacks and the food shortages he expects by fall, then reads Hexagram 34, Ta Chuang — the Power of the Great — a caution against using strength for ego instead of for what is right.

Questions turn to disaster prep: fermenting mass animal corpses from floods or fires into fish amino acid, and dousing dead animals in lactobacillus to stop disease from spreading. Shaman King asks what to use when air and water are contaminated — lactobacillus first, backed by IMO, minerals, and the rest of the KNF lineup. Other questions cover air-operated double diaphragm pumps for spraying, and holding a smartphone camera to a refractometer eyepiece to log readings.

Drake flies the drone over the farm, comparing his 60-day mob-grazing rotation to a neighbor's unmanaged, overgrazed pasture, and talks through Wedelia control, banana bunchy top virus he's mostly let go, and plans to build a meat cooler before selling quarter cows to friends. The group also digs into Australia's dingo fence, old-versus-new food ingredients and rising pesticide use, and the Kona Low flooding that wrecked Oʻahu's North Shore and the Road to Hāna.

Questions answered

  • 15:49 How do I become a KNF Foundation member or fix my membership? — Email Drake at pureknf.org — the new membership system on the website should be running soon.
  • 17:15 After a flood or fire, how do you deal with thousands of animal corpses? — Ferment them for fish amino acid, and douse the area in lactobacillus so disease can't spread.
  • 20:38 Are air-operated double diaphragm pumps worth using for spraying? — Yes — pair one with a big air compressor and a quarter-inch hose so you're not carrying water around.
  • 22:07 Can a refractometer be hooked to a smartphone to log readings? — Easiest fix is holding the phone camera to the eyepiece and snapping a photo, or finding a USB refractometer.
  • 23:31 What KNF solutions help when the air and water are contaminated? — Lactobacillus is the main tool, backed up by IMO, minerals, and the other KNF inputs.
  • 26:13 Is unfenced range grazing with no predators still real farming? — No — without predators to move the herd, grazers wreck the land; managed rotational grazing works better.
  • 40:31 What's being done about banana bunchy top virus? — He mostly let it go after a researcher's plan meant paying thousands to poison and remove everything.
  • 43:39 How do you get rid of invasive Wedelia in pasture? — Let other grass grow over it and reseed into it — he hasn't found a full cure yet.
  • 47:19 Do you sell your beef wholesale? — No — he sells it to friends as quarter cows instead.
  • 48:51 Why do older folks say they had more energy growing up? — Because they ate real food before ultra-processed ingredients and today's much higher pesticide use took over.

Topics: lactobacillus, imo, fish amino acid, rotational grazing, refractometer, dingo fence, wedelia, banana bunchy top virus, meat processing, kona low flooding, pesticides, membership

KNF Office Hours is a free live Q&A every Sunday at 9 AM HST. Bring your question to pureknf.org/learn/questions or join live.

In this episode

  1. 0:00 Fuel Crunch And Stocking Up
  2. 6:41 I Ching: Power Of The Great
  3. 15:49 Membership Meeting And Website Update
  4. 17:15 Animal Corpses After Disaster: Lacto And FAA
  5. 20:38 Diaphragm Pumps For Spraying
  6. 22:07 Refractometer Plus Smartphone Logging
  7. 23:31 Cleaning Contaminated Air And Water
  8. 26:13 Range Grazing Without Predators
  9. 38:44 Drone Tour: Rotational Grazing In Action
  10. 43:39 Wedelia And Banana Bunchy Top
  11. 47:19 Selling Beef As Quarter Cows
  12. 48:51 Old Vs New Food, Rising Pesticide Use
  13. 1:00:04 Kona Low Flooding Hits Hawaiʻi
  14. 1:03:04 Closing Prayer

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