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.
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In this episode
- 0:00 Fuel Crunch And Stocking Up
- 6:41 I Ching: Power Of The Great
- 15:49 Membership Meeting And Website Update
- 17:15 Animal Corpses After Disaster: Lacto And FAA
- 20:38 Diaphragm Pumps For Spraying
- 22:07 Refractometer Plus Smartphone Logging
- 23:31 Cleaning Contaminated Air And Water
- 26:13 Range Grazing Without Predators
- 38:44 Drone Tour: Rotational Grazing In Action
- 43:39 Wedelia And Banana Bunchy Top
- 47:19 Selling Beef As Quarter Cows
- 48:51 Old Vs New Food, Rising Pesticide Use
- 1:00:04 Kona Low Flooding Hits Hawaiʻi
- 1:03:04 Closing Prayer
Transcript
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1:00 I'm going to be here for an hour and you can ask anything along those lines. Korean natural farming related would be helpful, but anything. And be here. Thanks for being here this Sunday. It's April 12th, 2026. Pretty amazing. Good folks in the house. It's good to see you all here. Thanks for making natural farming part of your life, part of our lives, and being part of the community. Because many people do natural farming, but they're not part of the community. Right? I don't know. Maybe they're antisocial. Maybe they don't know where to go. Maybe they don't know the right times.
1:39 All those things. But invite your friends, especially if you have friends that are in KNF. Invite them here. And, you know, get them involved. Because I think the world more than ever needs this. I say it every time, but we're drifting further and further toward more natural farmers. Not only are we necessary because of the good things we can do, but will be necessary because there's most likely a pretty good famine and or energy crunch coming to the world. But if you just, before I get into the I Ching, if you just think about this really quickly.
2:16 Like, if 20% of the world's oil is not entering the world, and basically what we eat is oil, even though you think, oh, we don't. But you're pretty much eating oil, whether it's, you know, you can look up how many Heberbrosh direct nitrogen is in our food stream, like synthetic nitrogen. And how much diesel and everything it takes to get cold refrigerated food from wherever it's grown to wherever you get it, if you don't grow it. Right? That means that basically, if it's 20% of all that energy is off the world market, that means every one in five people you see is going to be affected. Right?
3:00 Like, if you just, if you just put it on that one person, it means like, probably those people don't have food for, what, two months, three months? I don't know how long, it's two months, I think it's been, been blocked, right? Like, they have, they've cut off 20% of the world's oil for like the last two months. So, imagine one in five people you see dying and or starving and or like, imagine you can't drive your car, you know, one day, you know, a day, two days out of the week. Right? Like, how much would that impact your life? And that is on its way. Right?
3:31 We haven't felt it yet, but it's coming on its way. It's moving toward us. This has happened. So, if you're not buying sugar now to make, you know, I'd buy sugar in bulk now if you can afford it. So, you can continue to do natural farming because odds are the shipping price is everything going to go way up. I could be wrong. Right? Right? I could be completely wrong on this. But I just like looking at things and like understanding how energy works and understanding how these things happen. It's not a bad idea to stock up now while you can before anyone else panics.
4:05 Because we're not going to really feel this until, like the food-wise, until fall. Right? Because today's spring, they're not getting their fertilizer, they're not planting. And then all the animals right now are eating last year's harvest. And then when it comes to fall, then there'll be critical food shortages. Right? No grain to feed the livestock, the chickens, all these things. You know, like as that comes the fall season, next season, you're not going to have very much. So, I just think, you know, why not start off with a little bit of prep and those things.
4:39 On the top of my mind of why it's more important than ever to be learning how to do natural farming and learning how to like, you know, use basically what you have at your feet to be free fertility. Because you could then become, this is an opportunity where, while everyone else starves, you have food. And you can then increase your wealth and prosperity because you were planned ahead and you're able to support these people. And just like anybody, you know, any good disaster capitalist, you can, if you do it right, you charge them more when they're starving and you have everything.
5:14 And it's, you know, I think there is like rules against that price gouging. But, you know, if it gets really bad, they're going to do it to us. Right? But, um, they've already done it to us. Like, oh, war and Iran. And they just jacked the fuel price up one, like a whole dollar and stuff. It's, it's just inflation. You know, they were just trying to keep it down. But they, but it has to burst through. I mean, they printed so much money. It has to burst up. Right? And this war is a good excuse for that. To be like, oh yeah, it's the war that did it. It's like, no, no.
5:42 It was your money printing that you did a couple of years ago. Um, you know, it was all that money printing that really is causing those. But, and then the war to actually take oil offline and all that. That's, that's actually really gnarly. Something that's beyond what, um, you know, all those things. So with that, before we get into that, yeah, Madag all year. Yep. Get your Madag tools sharpened. Before we get into any things, I just start off with a little bit of like doom and gloom. But, you know, it's actually just reality. And it's the way I see it, right? It may not happen, right?
6:15 Everything may be just peachy keen and amazing. And just, ooh, yeah, somehow we have abundance when 20% of the oil is cut off. I, I, I just, I, it's, you're going to have a hard time selling that to me. Um, but let's go for some higher wisdom because that's just my wisdom. So here's the higher wisdom. So the power of the great. To achieve true power and true greatness, one must be in harmony with what is right. False power and false greatness can be seen all around us in the world. Through egotistical and aggressive manipulations, many people obtain a temporary position of influence.
6:59 The I Ching teaches us a different way of acquiring and using power. One that leads to true greatness and enduring influence. The way of the sage unites power with modesty, justice, gentleness, and equanimity. The hexagram Tachuang indicates you have increased your power now by purifying your thoughts and actions. Through contemplation of higher principles, you've begun to open doors for yourself.
7:44 Through alignment with what is true and good, you gain insight into situations and the power to resolve them in your favor. But it is important to remember that it is the sage who is the source of our strength. If your ego takes over and wields power, the power that is at hand, the ensuing misfortune will be great. The I Ching counsels us not to misuse our strength by judging, condemning, punishing, manipulating, or dismissing others.
8:33 It advises reticence in speech and action. More often than not, the truly superior person relies on stillness and non-action. Allowing inner truth to penetrate gently to the heart of difficulty. The I Ching also cautions us to wait patiently for the appropriate time for speech or action. Power can make us eager, but eagerness unbalances us and leads us into trouble.
9:19 By listening carefully and patiently to the sage, we know when to move ahead, when to wait, and when to retreat. In the end, through greatness comes only to those whom strength and proper principles are firmly united. If you follow the sage and persevere steadfastly in what is correct, will inherit the power of the great. Well, isn't that apropos, right? False power, false greatness all around us. Can anyone think of that guy that's doing that big time
10:04 infecting the whole world? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? And, you know, doing our part, believing in God, staying true to the sage, staying true to nature, restoring the Garden of Eden. That's our mission. That's our path. Let that clown do what he's going to clown around. It's going to come home. It's going to hurt. All of us are hurt from what's happened these last couple days. And I don't know. The whole thing is this year, I don't know. I don't want to make full judgments on that because I can't see it all. God knows. Right? Seems a little bit crazy to just go bomb people and, you know,
10:46 end civilizations and kill a whole group of folks. Seems a little crazy to me. But, you know, what do I know? I think it's just, you know, whatever, bro. You know. Anyhow. Yeah, and so, Australia shut all but two of its refineries and Western Australia has none. Farming and mining run on fuel. fuel. And that's what Western Australia has a lot of, right? The farming and mining. And they're basically cut off from fuel. So, you know, here we are in America. We haven't had that pleasure of having a fuel shortage in my lifetime. Prices have gone up but we have not
11:32 had a shortage and it seems like it's coming to Australia. And they're actually probably smart. They're actually probably rationing and holding ahead and or just the ships are not moving toward them. So, but here you go. That's why you need to tune in with a global audience because you have someone directly in Australia that's able to tell us that it's getting real, bro. Getting real, real. So, knowing this stuff, knowing how to farm, knowing how to grow, knowing how to like make biochar for instance. So, if you have less water you can still have good produce. Knowing how to make
12:10 these liquid microbe solutions so that you don't have disease and pest and if, for instance, there was some sort of famine and a bunch of people died around you, just saying, I'm not saying it's going to happen, but if it did and you have the IMOs you can go and put those on the dead bodies so that disease does not spread. Right? You can put lactobacillus and go spray dead corpses with this and disease will not come and get you. Right? So, it's kind of a morbid way to think of it but Korean natural farming may in fact save your life if the famine that I'm thinking and the death
12:46 that I'm thinking is coming does. Right? Because I see it. Imagine, imagine of all the, you know, think of all your friends and 20% of them die. Right? Or 20% of them don't have food. Right? Or oil or transportation or the modern luxuries or whatever. I don't know. Seems pretty likely if you just take 20% of the world's oil off the shelf. Like, what are you going to do? You just cut 20% of oil out of your life? Really? Really? Like, you, okay, okay, cool. So, now, you know, when was the time to prepare? 20 years ago, but of course, if you prepared 20 years ago, all your stuff, you know,
13:28 but do take this time to buy a little bit of sugar, more than a little bit. Buy about 10 times as much as you think you're going to need for the year and stash it because then, you know, then you can help your neighbors, truly. You can make a bunch of these solutions and also, like, you know, if there's really no food, you can go out and ferment grass and drink the grass juice. You know, you can go, there's tons of food if you ferment it first, right? Lactobacillus will turn the most inedible stuff into edible stuff. So, you know, you guys don't, you know, if you know this stuff, you don't have
14:03 to worry about the famine coming, but I always thought, you know, I'm always like, why do I do what I do? Because I, this has been in my mind for a long time of this doom type stuff, but this, this one moved it, moved it, moved the needle a bit further forward. And we lived through 2020 and all that shut down and that was pretty, I didn't think that would happen, but they masked that with printing money and they, and we did have a bunch of supply chain, like, you know, just kludges coming through. And I reckon that this will do the same thing again. What's up, printer bear? So we got some
14:37 good folks in the house. We got Cecily, Western Australia, giving us the news. D Hendrix, yeah, long live the natural farmer because you know how to ferment, you know how to build fertilizer, you know how to grow food, right? Hopefully. Um, what's up, Mark? Hope your heart is good, Bridgen. Yes. Um, Rainbow Possum, peace. What's up? Um, build gardens everywhere. Yes, yes. Um, but more than that, teach people because if you're the one building the gardens and they're not doing it and other folks around you aren't participating that way, then, um, you know, it ain't gonna work. You can't feed
15:18 everybody. Yay! Super chat. Well, cool as that. Hey, yay, yay. And last, last week we also got some good super chats. I want to thank you guys, some folks that didn't donate, you know, donated. It's so nice to see that flow come through. It really does. It helps me out. I think if you gave me a whole bunch of money, think of how much good I can do. And, um, people that do, I really appreciate you. It is like, here I am just like showing up and really appreciate it. It makes me continue to show up. So thank you. It means more than you know. It really does. Um, yeah. And Claudia in the house.
15:57 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, um, so Claudia is mentioning we got a meeting on Tuesday. That is correct. We're meeting for the second Tuesday meeting in Hilo. And then today is the second Sunday, right, of the month. So we actually have a membership meeting. So if you're a member of the KNF, your KNF foundation, we have a membership meeting today. And if you cannot sign up, um, I'm sorry, the website is, uh, this month, April, will be in much better shape. It took me a little bit longer than I thought to do the conversion, to get it over to where we need it to be, to do the things that we need. Um,
16:37 thank God the foundation is there to help make these things happen and to make everything work properly. So, yeah, printer bear, Michigan, what's up? Are you, printer bear, yeah, Indiana or Michigan? Anyway, man, like, how is it? I forget where you're at, but anyway, we got healing earth remediations. What's up? We got some good things. Yeah, thanks. Thanks for the good wishes. Big Wes, what's up? Um, when we have floods and fire, should we deal, should we deal worth thousands of widely distributed animal corpses? Oh, yeah, yeah, well, the animal corpses, turn them into fish amino acid
17:22 or, you know, the can of fuel, ferment those. The key is to have enough sugar. Um, but yeah, the animal corpses are all dead. Again, lactobacillus, lots, large volumes of lactobacillus will keep dis-ease under control. Right? Um, so it makes the, the, um, the climate or the, the, the environment Connecticut. Oh, what the heck? Connecticut. Oh my gosh. Okay. But the lactobacillus makes, um, will, will deal with, um, disease causing pathogens. Right? It's the protectors. It's the police. Goes in there and it's like, no, no, no, no disease today. And it just stops that. And the way it does it
18:05 is it goes, oh, nice sandwich you were going to eat there. Too bad if I ate it. And it just eats all the sandwiches that the bad guys were going to eat. The bad guys go away pretty quickly because they don't have any sandwiches left. Um, so, yeah. Let's see. If you guys got questions, ask questions. It's been really nice the last couple office hours because I haven't gone on these large rant tangents and things. And we just stick with questions and then the time goes by really fast and I'm like, whoa. But also, just as a general question here, in my perception of the world, it seems like
18:39 time has sped up. Is anyone else feeling that? Because I've been asking a couple people and they've been saying yes, but I haven't asked too many people. So I'm curious for you, do you feel like since maybe like, I don't know, January, February, like this year, time is faster? Like I was, I was just like, it's already 20 minutes in and it's wild, right? And like it seems like it's at least one and a half to two times as fast. Just time is going that way. Um, and like I'm watching YouTube at one and a half times and it just seems like normal. And I don't know if it's like, I'm trying to
19:19 determine whether it's myself and like all the AI stuff that I've been doing and that kind of things and or like there's something larger. Like it's not just my perception. It's like a larger, like something has shifted or changed similar to like Mandela effect type of idea. Yeah, because time, well, time is an illusion, but it's also like it's how you perceive it, right? Like time is and it's your perception of how you go and if you get bigger or smaller, it changes, right? Like so time is there. It's not necessarily like, I don't necessarily agree it's an illusion. I think it's more of a
19:55 perception, right? And so I'm wondering if anyone else has that perception or it's just me, right? So I updated the app. Oh, the soap calendar now has gallons. I updated the app. Did I? I hope it's good. Okay. Maybe the AI just did it without me. I don't know. Okay, so air operated double diaphragm pumps. I've got a big air compressor, so these are great ways to use long lightweight quarter inch hose sprays far and consistent. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cool.
20:40 That's great. Yeah, no, these air operated double diaphragm pumps makes life easier, right? That way you don't have to carry the water around. You just put it where it is. Put a big air compressor on it. Go to town, right? Right on, printer bearer. I'm hoping you get your sprayer going and everything. It is flying. So we got one, so one agreement. The older I get, the faster time goes. Maybe it's getting old. Let's see. Time, in fact, sped up, as in the earth's rotational speed. Huh, that's interesting. So where is that? Where are you getting that from? Of the earth's rotational times. Okay,
21:22 yeah, fully. Okay, so linear time is an illusion. Okay, linear time is an illusion. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I'll go with that. I'll go with that because it's all now, right? Now, now, now, what? We're not all there because we're still here. Um, five years, yeah, yeah. okay, so maybe it's just, so you think it's me just because I'm getting older. Time seems to double. Yeah, concept illusion just awaits a seeker. Yeah, okay, okay. So, so for everyone, I think it is. Maybe it's because we're all getting older. Anyone out there getting younger? Um, yeah, so linear
22:08 times in illusion. Okay, I'll go with that because it's, it's pretty cyclical. It loops on itself. It's a secret cyril turn into a circle. Take me home. I have a refractometer and a smartphone. Is there a way to attach the two so that one can take photos and videos of readings from samples? Hmm. Well, I mean, you'd have to get a refractometer that plugged in. I mean, usually a refractometer from my, at least my refractometer is like a thing where I put, you know, I put, like have the thing and I close the thing and it smushes the thing and then I look through it and I see it. I suppose you
22:52 could take your smartphone and just put it to the eyepiece and take a photo, right? And then that way you could log it through with the phone's camera. But I don't know, like a USB refractometer? I mean, that would be my best guess. It would be something like that. Or, I mean, you could, if you were like really nerdy and stuff, you could get like a small little camera and put it inside and then like, you know, hook up like a little board like this or something, you know? Or, I mean, you could get like a smaller microcontroller and hook something like that up to read it automatically and
23:30 then go. But I think the best bet's going to be if you got the smartphone and the refractometer, I think the best bet's just to put the, you know, the camera to the eyepiece and just snap a photo. So you can start doing it that way. So, let's see here. Nature will soon make us rethink what we have done in this world. Underwater volcano will soon change the whole world. My question is what solution can we use if the air and water is contaminated? So, that's a great question. Thank you, Shaman King. If the air and water are contaminated, what solutions, what KNF solutions work best?
24:15 Well, lactobacillus, believe it or not. And then, you know, the other solutions to support the lactobacillus, right? Food, cleanser, medicine, lactobacillus, you know, all those are going to work in tandem because, and the minerals, you know, so all the KNF things, but your main one is lactobacillus for cleaning up toxins, right? Anything, even the air, potentially, I don't know, maybe you could run it through like a bong with lactobacillus in the water and it would clean it. I don't know. You'd have to, you know, you'd have to get like a fancy air purifier where you put the lacto in the water
24:52 and pull it through it or something. Or, you know, a filter that you spray lactobacillus on so as the air particles are coming through, the lactose, like processing those toxins on there. Some sort of solution like that, but lactobacillus and the IMOs are actually really good at cleaning up toxins as well. They're just not as quick and as easy, but ultimately long term, the best way you can do is surround yourself already with indigenous microorganisms and amplify their populations and follow the recipes to put those around because then your whole area is like inoculated and already cleaning up
25:29 those extra toxins. So, I hope that answers that question. Purify things with lactobacillus. the month Mark spent here made him feel better and younger. It's because he had to walk up that hill the whole time, Brad. like, I live up on a hill and there's no, you can't drive your car closer and we were having fun and we were doing stuff and we were working and like, that was just good fun, man. Good fun. You want to get younger? Yeah, come, come stay at the KNF farm. That's, I guess that's why I look young, right? I think I look younger than I am. I was looking at my other friends and
26:11 they're like fat and bald and shit and I'm like, oh, I'm skinny and still have my hair. You know, it may not last forever, but I'll enjoy it while I have it. Let's see. We range farm, no paddocks, no fence, think bison, no human hands, touch them until the point of death. Not really farming. That sounds tragic, Cecily, that they just let animals roam and do they still have the dingoes? I heard there's like, there's this thing in Australia, like, have you heard of the dingo line? Dingo line. Let me look this up. The dingo fence, yeah, let's look this up. Yeah,
26:56 so there's this, let's go this side like that and let's go like that. So there's this thing in Australia where they put in this dingo fence, this dingo fence, and it was a pest exclusion to keep dingoes out, which are, which are, dingoes are some of the best dogs out there. Really, they're like, look how cute they are. I don't know why you'd try and keep these further away. I would try to bring these as close to my home as possible, to be honest. I would be like, come here, dingoes, let's have fun together. But they put this thing in and there is environmental impact. Does it talk about it?
27:30 But basically on one side, yeah, so it says, it seems there are fewer, oh, let me make it bigger for you all. Here. They say, like, it seems there are fewer kangaroos and emus on the northwestern side of the fence where the dingoes are, suggesting that dingoes' presence reduce the population of those animals. Although the fence has been useful for protecting livestock against dingoes, ecologists opine that the fence is a colonial legacy that is more harmful than helpful. I don't like that idea. But this idea is that, I've seen it somewhere else, like, they had an aerial view, like, on the
28:13 left side of the fence, there's grazing, on the right side, there's none. I don't know. How the hell is just a barbed wire fence keeping dingoes out? Is it barbed wire? Oh, no, it's not. It's like mesh. Okay. Okay, it's not just barbed wire. But I did here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Here's the example. Where look on that side, it's all like lush forest and everything because the dingoes are keeping the grazing animals intact. And on this side, it's all like desert to the max. And it's literally like this dingo line that does it. And I don't know how true this is, right? Like, here's
28:58 another, I mean, it looks equally bad on both sides of this. This must be Cecily's, where Cecily, what Cecily's land used to look like until she made it nice. She always talks about how dry and desert it is. You must be out in like this desert type area, yeah. Oh, man. Or 50 penalty units. What is that? It's like your social credit score goes down by 50 points. And wild dog barrier fence. Wild dogs. Man. Yeah, so on this side, all boss, on that side, plenty good. The dingo barrier fence. So, anyway.
29:44 So, I think if you're just grazing animals and there's no predators, they will F your system up, bro. They will just ruin it. But if you have predators, it keeps them moving, keeps them going, keeps the population down, culls the sick, weak ones, all those things. So, I don't know about the dingo fence. It sounds like the way they're doing it is pretty bad. And then they just blame it on the people. Yeah. Cool. Big Wes has a way to control how many dimensions he sees because he drums. that's pretty cool, man. Time is not a problem for Big Wes.
30:30 He makes time. Yeah, I think that the range farming, what a bad idea. What a bad, you need to do, you know, controlled farming of animals, grazers, unless you're not going to have predators. healing remediation, yeah, time, yep, yep, yep, okay, play bees, mm-hmm, okay, well, time's not the same for everybody, I guess it's just weird for me.
31:17 Bineries maybe have developed something, but are you that big? I don't know what you're talking about there. This past work week was the slowest I've had in a long time, but Friday and Saturday disappeared really quick. Hmm, maybe it's if you're doing, like, I don't know, I was just trying to get ready for office hours, and it was like, the hour went by like that, like, I mean, I did wash the dogs with my mom, hung out with my mom a bit, and then, I don't know, barely even made it over here on time, you know? In fact, that was like a minute late. So, let's see here. How old am I? Well,
32:02 you'd have to guess. How do you keep your beard that dark? Well, it just, um, it does what it likes. I don't know. I had been drinking less coffee, I don't know, and I just did start drinking coffee again, that was a coffee, but I was off coffee for a bit, I don't know. I am O's, um, lactobacillus, I bathed myself in lactobacillus, that, that helps too. It puts the, um, it puts the proteins back right here. Um, collagen, or, yeah, if Goof was here, he knows what hair is made of, he was talking about last time, collagen, something like that. Um, how do I keep my beard that dark? See, um, I don't
32:45 know. Um, um, and then someone took a deep drive into a large hard-on collider, and possibly broke space-time continuum, and we slipped into an alternate universe. It's very heavy and tinfoil hat area, shouldn't be. Yeah, um, yeah, no, the hard-on colliders is, you know, those guys, man, they're doing weird stuff, splitting space-time, who knows, yeah, the mandala effect and all that, you guys into that? It's wild. Um, I'm, I'm, I'm certain it's the, the Bernstein bears, you know, and then it's Berenstein, it's like, no, no, it's Bernstein, they burn like a bear.
33:31 Um, and then the Monopoly guy had a monocle for sure, and the peanut guy had a cane, and, um, you know, it was mirror, mirror on the wall, who was the fairest of them all, right? It wasn't magic mirror, it was mirror, mirror, right? I mean, go watch it today, it's magic mirror. mirror, it was mirror, mirror on the wall, I swear to you. Like, we used to say that shit all the time when we were kids. Um, you know, all those things, man. And it was Fruit Loops, not with two O's in the, in the fruit part, no, it was fruit, like, F-R-U-I-T loops. Like, it was Fruit Loops, bro. I swear to you. Um,
34:17 the weasel broke into CERN in 2016 and broke the Hard-On Collider. Oh, man. Yeah. Um, yeah. Yes, a working holiday girl was killed by a dingo this year. You just gotta have treats in your pocket, man. When the dingoes come, you just, you train them with treats. They, instead of building a fence, they should just give everyone a packet of treats. I'm not saying, you know, like, it should also be good with dogs and, you know, I'm sorry someone died from dingoes, but, think of how much worse the land is because of the dingoes, man. Like, isn't it, and aren't there plenty of people,
34:55 and aren't they gonna kill them anyway by doing this fuel rationing? Like, you know, you gotta pick your battles, Australia. Um, no estuary. Hmm. Did you, did I harvest any beef? No, man. I need to harvest beef. It's actually, um, it's been stressing me out. I gotta, I gotta get, maybe that's what I should do today. I should just go out there and build the meat cooler. I really should. Just go build the meat cooler. Because then I can just murder the animals and cut them into pieces and put them in there and chill. Um, yeah, and if I did it today, yeah, it gives me enough time
35:34 to do it before I gotta go. I'm going to Maui. I'm doing, um, farm, fam, apprentice mentorship, um, end of the month here. That'll be fun. Doing, doing the, uh, meeting with the guys from, uh, Molokai and Lanai in Maui. Doing the Maui County run for the year. It's good fun. I love that. Um, farmers union, doing good things. Um, so I need to kill the cows before I do that because I should probably kill two of them to be honest. I gotta lower the herd and then sell, sell some. Jeez, I gotta get on that. I mean, I think I'm going to do that today. Go reach out. Um, you're 36 and I look much more
36:18 worn out than me. Man, yeah, I'm not, I'm older than you for sure. I'm, I'm, I'm a couple years older than you for shiz. I'm, yeah, I'm, I'm still 40 actually. I'll tell you I'm 40. Um, yeah, so, I don't know, man. Uh, dude, you gotta do the natural farming, man. I, I don't know what to say. Oh, um, yeah. Operation Epstein Fury. Yeah. Um, there's a new meat processing situation developing here. Huh. Well, I just shoot it in the head and then just cut it in the field and use a tractor
37:03 to rip it apart. No, I mean, I use knives and things, but that's all I'm going to be doing. Put it in my meat cooler. You know, what'd be cool is a community meat cooler. Um, that would be sweet. Uh, bring down the meat and age the meat. Just come down there with your quarters or sixth of your animals and hang them and be able to, you know, just, uh, hang meat and chill. Um, that would be amazing, but, uh, I'd be into that. I should put one in Popico, you know, because Popico is cool. Um, if only I had more access to, well, you know, see, I get, like, got to write the grants, do the things,
37:45 make the stuff happen. Okay, so, all right, well, it's that time of the year, time of the day, time of the hour, hour of the time. Um, so let's, let's, let's, you guys wanna, you guys wanna see some fun stuff? I just flew the drone over my land. Let's, let's check in with that, let's see if this is gonna go, can I open this? Here. Let's do a little farm update. Oh,
38:30 is it gonna kill my computer? Are frames dropping? No, it's only two frames. Skip this. All right, let's see, let's do some, before we get into some other natural farming, we'll just go check this out. All right, so, flying over the farm, got my barrels over there, those are fermentation tanks, you know, check it out. Um, oh, what a beautiful day, I think that's why I flew the drone. And finally, this beautiful, you know, let's see, let's bring this a little tighter in right there. All right, all that. So, these guys over here, so this is my neighbors, and they're putting in a bunch of this
39:11 black plastic into the land, and then they're building these windrows, which is awesome, and they're trying to grow calvo. So, it's good to see them progressing, they're actually doing it right, like whoever they hired is doing it right, where they kind of, looks very, very labor intensive, extraordinarily labor intensive the way they chose to do it. Um, but they do have, you know, if you want to spend a million dollars farming, uh, if you want to, yeah, they're definitely, uh, definitely still spending money, cattle aggregation guys. Um, but here, coming across this, this pasture here, let's,
39:46 let's, can we put this down on over there, but, uh, just graze this pasture here, and yesterday I was out here cutting some of this puna rose down. I want to leave some of it, because it brings deep nutrients up to the surface, but I cut down some of it, because it's getting, it's getting pretty heavy in my pasture. I was out there cutting a bit of it down, and then now the cows are in this pasture right now. They're chilling in there. I don't know if you can see them. Yeah, there they are. There's one of them, for sure. The cow chilling there. Um, and then they're going to go into this pasture
40:21 next, which this is probably my worst pasture. You see all this stuff here? This is broom grass. It's actually really steep right here, and then right here there is a spring that comes out of the ground. These ferns right here, there's a spring in here somewhere, and then it comes across, and the grass is really thick where the water flows down there, and then over here, then there's another kind of spring right here. So this spring actually starts right on my land right there, and there's not like water flowing right here, but there is water right here, and then there's water right over here.
40:50 So interesting. My neighbor's land doing okay, but they did, they overgraze the crap out of this, but then they move their cows out, and then they have their little nursery orchard, and they got a bunch of coconuts and bananas. Um, and then coming across, and, um, if you look, you can see like their pasture here looks okay, and mine looks down, but I'm rotationally grazing, so I mob graze, and I hit it really hard, and then I get really good regrowth, because then I let it sit for, you know, about 60 days before I bring the cows back, and theirs, they just mob, they just don't even do any
41:28 management at all, so, um, and then, so this was where the cows were before, you see how much better this is recovered, and look how nice it is coming in, um, and, let's see, my dad's nice pineapples, check those out, they're awesome, we've been flying the drone over this sector, so this is, this gets more drone than the rest of everything, and his pineapples looking so awesome, you know, such a good pineapple season this year, coming across, good pasture, you know, so, so just look at the juxtaposition between my neighbor's land here, which this is a huge, like, I don't know, five, five to six
42:09 acre spot, and look like the pigs are there digging it, the grass looks like crap, the other spot over there doesn't look too bad, but this spot, bruh, look at that, um, versus where I'm doing more, um, rotational grazing, and intensive grazing, um, and then coming across a nice, nice, this pasture, my dairy pasture, it's doing okay, still a little bit of broom grass there, but not nearly as much as it was like, uh, three years ago, and then the banana bunchy top burrow, it's got me, I didn't do shit to stop it, to be honest, I mean, I did a project for a little while, and then I burnt out,
42:46 and then we tried to get a researcher to do this, and then he was like, yeah, oh, man, he just was not cooperative, he was not like, oh, you found a thing to fix it, like, let's research it, he's more like, no, no, you should poison and kill it and remove it all and spend thousands of dollars to get rid of it, and I'm like, wait, what, like, do you realize I'm a farmer, if I, you know, go ahead and give me your paycheck for those months while I'm out of work, but yeah, the bunch top, it's okay, these bananas down at the bottom doing good, but man, I just let it go, barn, nice, um, let's see,
43:21 so I've been grazing all this area, and one of the problems is this stuff coming in right here is some Wadilia, I'm not too stoked on that Wadilia, it is, oh, it's terrible actually, um, and so I gotta, I gotta work on that, but this right here, this tree spinach that's coming along the barn right here, the chickens live right in here, and then all over, because I actually got like six renegade chickens that live outside, but this right here, um, the, uh, tree spinach is awesome, it's, it's, it's like, the chickens love it, it's pretty amazing, but yeah, you see the Wadilia coming in here,
44:01 and here, it's like spreading a little bit, I'm like, no, go away, Wadilia, and it's over here, it's like, oh no, that shit spreads, it's bad, so the only, the, what I found is like, you gotta let the other grass grow over it, and maybe seed, seed into it, and do some things, but, not exactly sure I'm gonna get rid of it, but, yeah, you can see all my grass is not that tall, man, it's, it's been a harsh winter, and I have too many cattle right now, oh nice, look at the river, oh cherry, um, yeah, I got it, and the Wadilia right there too, dang, um, but coming across, yeah, look at that,
44:39 nice pineapples coming in, the coconuts are doing really well, this spot's even coming back to life, and this coconut's kicking butt, and this sugar cane that my dad planted is awesome, he's a good farmer, and then I've been running my dairy cows in my parents' front yard, and so if you look at this, I did this huge rotation, you can see how I rotate the cows around, you can see their slices of where they go, and they're gonna rotate back through here, and the cow is actually broken out right there, you see that cow right there, she's not where she's supposed to be, but that's okay,
45:11 that's okay, I let her do that, um, I'll put her back in there, and then when I rotate like this, the grass comes so lush on this side as they rotate around, and this is about a 60 day rotation, although I got mama and daughter in there right now, so it's a little bit quicker, but man, this grass, this was just like mowed, because my dad likes a mowed yard, and um, which is great, but now he's letting me graze in the front yard, and it's so awesome, man, I run the dairy cows around this little pivot of this water, and they love it, and then let's see, coming back over, my place,
45:45 I live in a jungle, you know, the rest is like, um, what you call, nice yard, I think Mark stayed in this, this spot, so he had his own place, he stayed here for a month in this place, and I'm just saying, you know, if someone wants to come help on the farm, bruh, got a place for you, and I'm in this office right now, this right here, um, but yeah, I cut down some of these trees, I dropped a few, and then I'm building, right here, I'm gonna build my meat cooler, right on the side of this building, it's a little produce processing area, and tool storage area, and it's, you need, I mean,
46:20 as a farmer, you need something bigger than your house to store your tools, that's for sure, um, but yeah, look at these, um, what you call, ice cream beans, bruh, came huge, I gotta cut them down a little bit, um, but man, that's just great, pretty amazing, like bananas doing well, I grazed the cattle all through here too, like this, this was where the drone was stored, this building is completely collapsing, um, so we moved it out of there, but man, more, more things, more problems, yeah, and in my place, I just basically, this used to be sugar cane, and like cultivated, and I've just
46:58 been grazing it, I don't got enough energy these days to do all this, so run, just fence around that electric fence and graze there, doing that, it's like someone needs to power wash my roof, you know, so I chopped down this tree here, and then I pieced this up the other day, threw it in this windrow, and then hopefully I'll get my garden in front of my house a little bit better, I want to plant potatoes, um, do I sell my meat to wholesale, no, I don't, I need to, I'm going to sell it just to friends as quarter cows, um, no more like, um, so, yeah, so there you go, that was the little tour
47:40 there of the farm, um, fly the drone again, I'm going to try and fly the drone on a monthly basis, so I can kind of go and, um, do that, um, yeah, so, um, what, um, so I've got a couple questions here, let's see, um, so we rotate spots, mm-hmm,
48:26 yeah, I think, I think older folks had a better, um, you, you were, you were born, you know, have you ever seen the thing, um, uh, let's see here, let's see, uh, Reese's, um, old versus new ingredients, um, how do you spell Reese's, what is the, um, oh, all right, E, S, and let's go for an image here, um, I don't
49:13 know if it's on, but, um, yeah, so, here, let's see this, so, so, in the Reese's, you know, these days it has milk, which, you know, milk chocolate, which is sugar, cocoa butter, this, and then it has PGPR, and dextrose, and salt, and TBHQ, what the heck is all that, right, but the, um, but look at these, yeah, like, this is, like, um, PGPR and this stuff, like, um, where's the, the old one versus the new one, oh, it's tert-butrylin
49:58 pocketed citric acid, like, number one ingredient banned at Whole Foods, um, it has, like, the old one, the old one had, like, three ingredients, it was, like, sugar, and, like, peanut butter, and, like, simple, oh, yeah, here, here, this, this is the one, where back in the day, in the 70s, like, when you were growing up, it had sugar, peanuts, cocoa butter, milk, chocolate, dextrose, salt, and soy alayathin, okay, these days, now it has all of this, right, they've completely broken up what the milk chocolate is, right, it doesn't even have milk and chocolate in it, or it has this, which is,
50:37 like, a combination, then polyglycerol, peanuts, sugar, deserent, tertiary, and citric acid, so, the thing is, like, you know, like, if you're older, you grew up eating real food, right, and, and we grew up eating food-like products, right, so, when you're, like, old, and you're, like, what's wrong with the current generation, it's, it's pretty much the food, I'm just, you know, it's the food, I'm just picking this, because I saw it the other day, as a meme kind of thing, I was like, oh, and it's totally true, I mean, look at this, rhesus, or, like, you didn't have these when you were,
51:18 you were a kid, right, I mean, look how, I mean, it looks delicious, don't get me wrong, but it's also probably very toxic, right, and then it's in this package, and how long is it going to last on the shelf, you know, and, like, so, all this stuff, you know, so, and I hear older folks that are like, oh, yeah, I have more energy and stuff, it's like, it's because you haven't, you know, you grew up eating real food, right, you had a milkman when you were a kid, we have, you know, ultra pasteurized stuff shipped thousands of miles to us, we have, you know, the bananas you ate, we're like,
51:51 bananas, and we eat bananas that are soaked in toxins, you know, the amount of toxins they're spraying, like, let me look at this, you know, pesticide use increase over time, let me see what that says here, you know, like, if you look at these, like, granted, the population's gotten bigger, but, you know, over, over the years, it's like, worldwide pesticide use, like, trending upward, you know, other, other, you know, pesticides, trending upward, you know, we go back to the 1960s, there was only like 200 used, now there's like 500 used, right, so just, that's what it's like,
52:31 one and a half times more, you know, like, you know, look at all the, like, what is this, pesticide production, pesticide imports, like, so, not only, like, what does this, this one say, you know, I'm not sure, I'm just saying, like, back in the day, like, when you were growing up, when you were building your body, there was like, hardly any, and now, people today, building their bodies, like, I was born what day, you know, like, I was born into this, like, this happening to me, right, so if I'm not growing my own food, and eating my own stuff, it's like, yeah, you know,
53:05 maybe it's trending downward, but maybe it's just getting more concentrated, and stuff, like, I don't even know, right, consumption of pesticides, in 10,000 tons, it's like, look at that, it's going way up, and this is like a short chart, and, you know, so, when, when I hear, you know, it's like, oh yeah, you know, the older people, it's like, yeah, you grew up when there was a time, when it was like, actually legitimate stuff, and now, we're like, we're like, eating toxins everywhere you go, and like, breathing more, it's like, oh, we're on a gnarly path, um, what information are you tracking,
53:46 in your pineapple drone monitoring, uh, just the size of the pineapples, we're not, we're not really doing, um, much, much there, in terms of science, besides the fact that, just noting down when we sprayed, and like, how nice it looks, and all that kind of stuff, um, so, yeah, let's see, flat Eric, yeah, he's chilling, flat beats, um, did any of you read my post, on the killing of a working girl, this year, a dingo killer, no, I, well, no, but thank you for the awareness, on that, because, um, you just, you have treats in your pocket,
54:32 Kia, dingo comes, throw the treats, and run, um, but they're so cute, man, my, that's why I like healers, they're part dingo, um, I get the feeling, people think, I have issues, when I mention all the things, I boycott, and why I'm also kind of a dick, and, and to those things, I feel we're on purpose, yeah, they're definitely, I mean, it's not, like, it, what it is, is it's a, it's a problem, because not as many of us, are involved in agriculture, right, if more of us get involved in agriculture, then we can do more weeding, more pest control, more natural farming, care more for these things,
55:07 um, I, I can hear you, I, I get it, I get it, someone died from a dingo, you know, people get, die all the time from all kinds of stuff, it doesn't mean, I mean, I'm not sure exactly what point you're trying to get across here, um, but, you know, like, died from a dingo, ooh, you know, people, like, how many people died in Iran, I mean, jeez, how many people are dying in Palestine, you know, just saying, one dingo, it's like, what, are we supposed to kill all the dingoes, because one person died, like, a little wild, um, you know, get tough, bro, uh, I mean, learn jujitsu,
55:49 or just protect your throat, I mean, dying, like, bro, people die all the time, um, let's see, I think, yeah, no, so, getting out of that stuff, Hawaiian set an example for the rest of the world of pharma, yeah, can Hawaiian, Hawaiian set example for the rest of the world to follow, I'm trying, I just happen to be here, Canadian shit is not coming, what's this all about, ah, um, American, uh, so, yeah, Hawaiian, I think we can set an example, we're trying, you know, if Hawaii County, you know, I put in the plan for the drone, to get the, um, get the drone out there,
56:27 we'll see if it makes it into the plan, I gotta go, do more of that, we're working on getting the grants thing going, and all that, um, and then, let's see, what else, you guys, um, so, no, no, no, no, no, no, let's see what else, oh, we got a few more minutes, anyone have any other questions? you should, she should be bigger than the tourist industry, her parents came and buried her, hmm, I'd go to Australia because someone died from a dingo, that's actually an attractive fact to me, maybe I'm like weird and morbid, but, be like, yeah, you know, you want to live on the edge, right,
57:11 you don't want to go to some tourist resort, resort where it's all like safe and stuff, you want to go to a tourist resort, where you're going to have, you know, get real, like, man, I had to fight out five dingoes, like, that's where I want to go, you know, we'll see what happens on Maui, I'm going into a war zone, not, not, not literally, but like, literally, because, have you guys seen the flooding that happened out here? Speaking of tragedy, let's just go, let's just do a little bit of tragedy search here of like, Kona Low, I'm just going to search for that and see, let's go to the images,
57:47 because, oh, bruh, this here, the Kona Low, um, I don't know if you guys, saw any of this, but, um, bruh, this is, this is like, Honolulu, or, or, or North Shore Oahu right now, the entire thing got flooded out, you know, and look at all this, rubbish that came, like, this is just one small pile, there's so much rubbish, because everyone's house, North Shore, got just, jacked, um, and the bridge is washed out, and, bruh, look at this person's house, it's all Kupakai, falling in the, you know, what happens when you live near a stream? It's going to happen eventually, guys, but,
58:32 bruh, Hawaii got so jacked recently, look at this one, that one looks a little bit AI, not gonna lie, because, looks a little AI, um, because, why would you, you know, anyway, um, but, bruh, yeah, this was like, bruh, Oahu and Maui and stuff, got so jacked, and, um, um, what you call, uh, line aside, where I'm going, got all jacked, and like, yeah, look at this, I mean, just, millions of dollars in damage, you know, you know, that one car right there, what is that, that's a quarter million now, you know, these days with inflation, um, yeah,
59:19 stuff, yeah, I don't know if you guys saw, but, oh, bruh, let's, let's try to look, um, Kona Lola Haina, let's see if they got images there, okay, um, yeah, I don't know, anyway, those guys I saw, they just, like, they got just, decimated again, I'm like, bruh, you know what we need, more natural farming, stabilize the soil, make it absorb more water, yeah, like this, this is my friend's road, East Maui took this on, what is this,
1:00:04 Road to Hana, on the back way, I went this way one time, it's fun, but look at that, the whole road is gone, um, yeah, bruh, I got jacked, anyway, um, don't be a mother, yeah, I'm not a mother, millions of sheep are killed, and you don't have the dingo fence, I know, but, that's, it's natural, what are we doing, I know, okay, so I'm not, Cecily is obviously in favor of the dingo fence, we'll just leave the dingo fence for her, that's fine, it will turn Australia into a desert further, um, Bilam is rounding up the burrows and white horse, white horse, wild horses, oh my gosh,
1:00:49 um, couple bear reported deaths, yeah, um, yeah, okay, well anyway, it's 10 o'clock, um, I think, have we have a good office hour, yeah, thanks everyone, yeah, no thank you, thank you, thanks everyone for being here, um, yeah, um, got killed by a cougar, yeah, you gotta watch out, going to the bars late at night, cougars, nah, nah, nah, nah, oh, fought it off with a bicycle, heck yeah, that's some, that's some, uh,
1:01:35 something, the whole world flooded right when rainbows appeared, coincidence, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, I am not gonna try and parse that for you, let's let that go, okay, the dingo Drano burgers, I don't know, I kinda like the dingoes, I'm a, I'm a big fan of dingoes, you know, if, if I lived in Australia, all the dingoes would be coming to my house, and just chillin', they'd be all tame, I'd be a dingo lord, and dingo was his name, oh, D-I-N-G-O, D-I-N-G-O, okay, anyway, I appreciate you being here, and again, um, we got a membership meeting today, so,
1:02:18 I know maybe the membership system is a little bit broken right now, but that will be fixed real soon, so if you are a member, um, or if you wanna become a member, email, Drake at pureknf.org, and I can help you out today, and if you're, if your membership is expiring, you can't do it, anyway, we'll, I, I will, and me and Claude will have that system running pretty soon, um, oh, okay, but before we go today, let's, uh, let's offer a little prayer, because, Lord knows we need it, so, thank you Jesus, for being here today, with us, and all these great people, coming together,
1:02:57 and help to inspire us to find hope, to find that, you know, truly you, as the sage, are in charge, and that hopefully you can help tame these egos, and these things that get in our way, that take us away from you, and put the right people, in the right places, that we may become, um, helpful, productive, prosperous, happy, um, and loving of you, and seeing you in everybody, and everybody in you, so that we may all, um, just, be the best people we can, this, this week, this month, this year, because things look like, they're not so great, but, I know you're out there,
1:03:41 and you're trying your best, to make the plan happen, so, whatever you think is best, keep doing it, and we'll be here, thank you for bringing us all together, to, to be part of the community, that I think, is what you wanted, so, with that, I want to bless all these people, bless ourselves, bless our land, bless our microbes, bless our animals, bless our stars, bless our universe, you know, the whole universe, in Jesus name, Yeshua, Amen, hopefully you guys enjoy the prayers, hopefully it's not too weird, I got inspired by Network Chuck, and I'm like, bro, that guy, when he prays at the end,
1:04:18 it's like, bro, that's what we should be doing, more of us should be offering prayers, you know, in whatever, sense, in whatever ways we do it, we should be all, appreciating, this, at least that's what I think, if not, that's fine, you can, you can be the opposite, you can, um, but, uh, thank you for being here, thanks everybody, I'll see you later today, and or, at the Tuesday meeting, and or, next week, today, so, hope you have a good time, thank you for being here, appreciate you, I'm out.