JADAM Microbe Solution, Hemp Composting, Wagyu-Angus Cattle

0:30 hey aloha and welcome to office hours for korean natural farming uh december 24th uh, Merry Christmas Eve, um, 2023, almost done with this, uh, this wonderful year of splitting apart and, uh, you know, wondering how the year went for you. If, uh, if you saw a bunch of people split apart around you or relationships fall apart and those kinds of things, uh, or you saw people

1:16 coming together more. I guess it's all a perspective of what you want to manifest and look at and see, although these things are always around us. So definitely here coming together more, making it a whole nother year here, Korean Natural Farming Office Hours. I think this is episode like 106 or something, meaning we've been doing it two years plus of episodes, meaning that it's longer than that, but, um, hey, Ben, how's it, man? So, um, before we jump into the, um, the, uh, the office hour, different, different things to learn, hopefully, um, let's get some higher

2:04 wisdom, because Lord knows I need it, and today, today, today, today is a good one for today, It's gathering together, lake over earth, to lead others towards good. One must purify one zone character. So the I Ching teaches us that the world cannot move towards harmony and well-being unless human beings act to further what is good and true. act in unison to further what is good and true. Our power as individuals is multiplied

2:52 when we gather together as families, groups, and communities with a common goal. It is our collective strength that makes positive change possible in our world. However, However, the tremendous power of human collectives must be directed by a qualified leader. The hexagram T encourages you to develop your character into that of a leader. Before a person may gather others together to achieve good, he must first gather within himself proper principles.

3:44 A leader who is not balanced and collected within himself will always be suspected by his followers. And in the hour when he needs them most, they'll hesitate. Therefore, the first task of a potential leader is to accumulate in his own good character all that is good, true, and correct. In a very real sense, the progress of the world depends on your thoughts and attitudes and actions. Improve yourself into the kind of person you would follow wholeheartedly without hesitation.

4:31 Learn to accept the natural progress that occurs when you act in harmony with proper principles. Train yourself to avoid misfortune by anticipating them in advance. By purifying your character in this way and clinging steadfastly to higher things, you lead yourself and others towards well-being and good fortune. so it is gathering together purifying you want to lead others and be someone who can be a leader

5:17 you want to gather people together then exhibit good qualities and people will come together right so showing up here doing this look at the group we've built look at this we got ben coming in from where you have this right now ben arizona south carolina i don't know he's out there doing good i mean yeah hopefully you're home with your mom say hi to lila if she's there um and uh cam too yeah good to see you today too i mean although i can the only thing i can see of you as a small icon. But, you know, maybe one day they'll have two-way YouTube, which will be just

6:03 wild, that you could see everyone else and then be a personal meeting, even though it's not, and just have AI split and say the right thing to everybody. That future's coming. Oh, Ben's in Arizona. Okay. And we got Rainbow Possum Farm. We got, what is that, Washington State in the house? Yeah, Washington State. Merry Christmas, y'all. And Thomas over here, eyewitness, you're playing in my living room. So I say hi to my wife and brother. Hi, wife. Hi, brother. Now you know the dude that Thomas came out here to Hawaii, hung out here for a week,

6:52 learned all these great things. I'm sure it's been life-changing for him, for you guys, getting all this natural farming up in, you know, welcoming it into your life, right? The goods. So, oh, I can have you back. That's okay. Yeah, yeah. As long as you bring your kids, which I don't know if she'd be willing to part with their kids. It's like the classic, uh, you know, um, Solomon deciding things. And he's like, yeah, I'm gonna cut this baby in half. And then the mom's like, no, it's like, yeah, moms and kids. Usually, usually that's the, um,

7:39 that's the weak point. You know, you just, uh, say what's up to the babies or, you know, find out truth by by going to the source of the power of the women it's the babies and what's up Chris we got Chris in San Diego howdy good to see you look at this group gathering together here we are all around the world on Christmas Eve getting ready for Satan Claus I mean, Santa Claus, um, to come down our, um, chimneys and stuff, deliver all these goods to our kids, which for some reason he stopped giving me stuff. I don't know why stopped eating. Didn't

8:25 stop eating the cookies though, but the cookies out, the cookies are gone. Oh, okay. So anyway, with that gathering together, doing our goodness goodness. Um, if anyone got any questions, I guess drop them, drop them in here. I just want to say, um, thanks. Um, thanks to everybody, um, out there, you know, this community, like, you know, here I am supporting you, but then I also feel that support flow back. Um, last time, you know, sometimes, you know, like I was saying, life's up and down. Uh, it doesn't tend to be down for long for me, uh, because I have this

9:09 mantra that life is sorrow. And so I make my baseline just misery. And then anything else that happens, if, if, if bad's happening, it's like normal. And if good's happening, it's, it's, it's up here, you know? So it's always going from like, life is sorrow. That's my baseline. So shift, shifting my baseline, right? It's like, Oh, and then it's not that bad because it doesn't go below, you know, sorrow. It can't get worse than sorrow. I don't think maybe, maybe there's probably worse things than sorrow, but, but if you just assume, you know, it goes down, it comes back up

9:38 But I appreciate everybody out there, you know, helping the channel grow, helping doing spreading K&F, helping Master Cho, which is kind of washed out today. But maybe I got to reprint that picture and move it a little closer. But we do also have this picture, although this one you can't really see as well unless it's lit up from the back, which, you know, this little flashlight right here. This is from the Goofman. given does it does it show up can you see no that doesn't help yeah you can't see but yeah that was the picture i was showing a master show all the time

10:20 back in earlier when we're going over his presentation earlier this year hey so gathering you know lifting each other up doing the right thing thank you stonemason thank you thank you super chats. Thanks for your time, brother. Thank you for your time. I mean, showing up, making your family, you know, um, have a great access to the garden, enjoying all those microbes you put out there, keeping your hands in good shape so you can continue to make a good living for the family. That's, uh, you know, that's what we're here to do, I guess. And what's up, Mad Dog, Merry Weedmas, everybody.

11:01 Yeah, Weedmas. The weeds that we ferment into better things and the flowers we can't talk about on YouTube. Is it a little blurry? It seems a little blurry to me. More blurry? It's a little blurry. If I'm blurry, who cares? It makes me look better. And what's up, Cyclopath? Yep, yep. uh yeah Merry Christmas the whole world celebrating Christmas um so um before we dive in because throw throw some throw some questions let's get let's get some topics out here but before I get into that um let's just go through this real quick real quickness here um let's see here can

11:46 I do this switch this one over that one this one like that and um just real quick here um got some good got some good folks signing up um new course coming up January 13th to the 19th 2024 got some folks um coming coming down from Pacific Northwest got some folks coming from the other side of the island um and the other side of the island the the um the west side and the south side coming up so it's gonna be a good class coming up um january 13th figured i may as well say this

12:33 um and yesterday uh i was able to talk to moose right here um called him up and he's doing well Chris was talking about him the other day, and he moved out to Asheville, so he's doing good. So there is now someone who's going to be certified Korean natural farming in North Carolina. So if you are looking for somebody that knows Korean natural farming and you are in the North Carolina region, one of my good friends right here, Moose, and his wife Mimi just moved out to that region. so uh you know hit them up um they're they're certified they'll teach you up teach you real good

13:18 um and uh yeah so i was able to talk to him yesterday and um who else we got we got uh matt matt hobbs here he's he's up in um he's in i don't know east coast somewhere east coast somewhere. And, uh, all, all these lovely folks, John Chad, all these guys. Um, yeah. So class is happening. Class is happening. Give yourself a gift for the new year. Come on out, learn something that, you know, you'll cherish for a lifetime. Um, yeah. So anyway, happening, just figured man's will promote that on there. And, um, what else we got? Hey,

14:02 we got a, Oh, is that, is that Thor? It gotta be Thor with a lightning hammer. Thor in the house. I just talked with Thor the other day. I was listening to his, uh, his podcast. Yeah. Yeah. And, um, but, uh, yeah. And then he gave me the sweet cactus. It's growing on our porch. but another K&F grad here in the house Thor and if you're interested in learning more about Thor and what he's up to he did an episode of the Microbial Secret Society so microbialsecret.org and under episodes here which one was it? Thor, Thor, Thor right there

14:50 Wordplay, The Box Saga, and Oak Tree Origins um so that was a good episode you know what I gotta go back like I gotta go back and re-listen to it though because I was listening to your other podcast that he just sent me on a new podcast that he had been doing and it was just like just like lit you know just like so much going into it that I gotta go back and re-listen because that's that's the coolest thing about um you know some of these projects that I've done here, um, making these different, um, podcasts is that once,

15:26 once they're there, then I can go and re-listen and learn about all these things, you know? Um, and we got Nate Brown, all, all these great ones. So, um, yeah, yeah. Maybe we'll get, uh, maybe we'll get them on the show again. Maybe, who knows? I, I, I really, in my life, I got to spend the next week to figure out what the heck I want to do with this year because I've had so many things come at me so many different changes and um got to figure it out but looks like i pretty much ended the uh microbial secret society after you know pretty soon after the whole um

16:04 scamdemic thing it looks like okay it went till july 3rd so but yeah that was that was a heavy year in 2020 hopefully everyone recovered from that and yeah so um so anyway you know microbial secret society check that out too hopefully get some more podcasts out do some things i love putting knowledge in front of the people uh giving you a value for value proposition where you can you can learn but then you can also help me support what we're doing getting those things together um and all that so um and then other news since

16:48 we get some questions in the house other news um we've been speaking of gathering together uh we've been busy and when i say busy i mean like it's like my life's pretty busy and then we've been doing additional over overtime volunteer time uh working at the pure knf foundation getting this ready for a membership launch. And our foundation has said that we wanted to have this thing launch on the new year. Is it ready yet? Sort of. It's a heck of a job to get

17:35 a whole thing together and to do all of our own stunts to get this together. But building, putting out our associative membership, I know I've been talking about it for years, but now our foundation, pureknf.org, the Pure KnF Foundation, the only Korean natural farming non-profit that I'm aware of in the United States that is actively doing things for the public. And, um, we want to do a little bit more for y'all and keep things going. So, um, so we've been working on that. Um, but, um, yeah, so those things going together,

18:26 trying to turn our, myself particularly, but ourselves and get our things together, right? If we get our things organized, we get our stuff together, then we can gather people together. You know, it's like if you gather people together too early before you're organized, it can lead to chaos, at least from my opinion. And so, and also you don't understand the scope of the work, right? Like if we just offer this, it's been amazing how many details have emerged when we're like, yeah, we're going to offer this to our members. And it's like hidden within,

19:09 we're going to offer this is like a thousand things. And when the, if you've ever watched like a movie script and you've seen how many names go by, and that's just like a simple two hour movie, it's like, whoa, um, you know, let alone thinking about building a, um, you know, whatever, whatever you got, it's just like, how many people are involved? How many people go through, you know? And then the other day, um, I was looking up, um, what was it? Oh, yeah, okay. It was, um, I was looking up these guys, so I'm going to bring this over. So I was

19:54 looking up this, um, Native American Youth Association. I think that's what the, that's, yeah, Youth and Family Center. Um, and I was looking up these guys because, um, one of the students had this email address, uh, n-a-y-a-p-d-x.org. So I think it stands for Native American Youth Association and PDX, I think is just like Portland or yeah, cause PDX is the airport there, I think. So, um, but I was looking at these folks here and I was looking, I was like, cool, they got this thing. And then I was looking, um, specifically at their community garden here

20:30 and I was looking at this and I was like, wow, this is a cool, um, it looks pretty awesome what they got going. You know, they got these nice garden out here. It looks like nice, rich soil, nice mulching, um, some yarrow here. Um, is that some squash growing? I don't know what that is. Leafs, growing leaves. Um, but I was looking at this and I was looking and I was seeing, you know, what they're trying to do, what they're trying to accomplish. And I was like, cool. Um, you know, and they, and they also got this like, um, thing here where I was like, wow, Portland clean energy

21:05 fund grant is part of Portland city council's approval of clean energy grants. They are receive 3.69 million. So like more than three and a half million dollars for five-year grant from the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund, which I should look into those guys, see if they want to, um, see if they want to help out, you know, maybe someone in Hawaii, maybe, ah, why? Cause they're Portland Clean Energy, they probably don't care about Hawaii, but we breathe the same air. We drink the same ocean, um, for renewable agriculture,

21:39 renewable agriculture. We should get that to say regenerative because renewable, regenerative, let's regenerate the life, the land, the sovereignty that comes from having regenerative agriculture. And green infrastructure. Funds will be used to convert 4.2 acres of a former baseball fields located in the back of the main campus in northeast Portland into a farm, traditional medicine garden and community gathering space and playscape, which is awesome, right? But I'm like $3.69 million. It's like, whoa, that like I, this, this is the kind of things that, you know,

22:21 if we have that, that kind of funding, that kind of stuff, man, wow, we could do a lot. And then I was looking and I was like, okay, so here's another nonprofit that I'm looking at. And I'm like, okay, well, let's go look at their annual report. And let's check this out, which apparently they haven't filed an annual report since 2014. So I don't know if you guys want to put that out there and file it. But I did look at this one in 2014, and I was like, okay, so here we are. Let's only use the necessary cookies. And here's their annual report. I was like, okay, cool.

22:55 And they got this huge board of directors. I'm like, wow, that's awesome. Got a nice director there. And then they got all this. and I didn't really read much of this, but this is what I was interested in. I went over here and I'm like, okay, so what does it take to build a community? Oh, let's see why. Let's make that a little smaller. Okay. And I was like, okay, so they're, they're actually going and grabbing revenues. They're getting like $8 million, $8 and a half million from, uh, from contracts, grants, contributions. So eight and a half million dollars they're getting coming

23:33 in. And then they're fundraising in a few other ways to end up basically raising about another million dollars in fundraising. Um, and then their total, they're, they're getting a 9.7 million dollars. I was like, dang. And then here down here, um, their expenses, they're spending like millions of dollars on these things, which is, which is great. I mean, that's probably what they're supposed to do. Um, but they're, they're spending $7 million. And I was like, Whoa, um, does it say, Oh, I guess in the rest of the money is like, uh, no, yeah, here managerial in general,

24:15 They're spending one, $1.1 million on, um, on staff. And then I was like, okay, so it's like that kind of thing where you get, you get a million dollars to spend on staff. It's like, that's, that's how you can build something that's, um, you know, going to provide great services for folks. So anyway, I was just looking at other nonprofits out there and I was like, wow, So, you know, for the for the small for the small amount of money that the Pure K&F Foundation does, we I think, you know, I think we're probably one of the most lean and mean in terms of our offerings to the people.

24:55 what we get out there. And I was looking also, you know, like looking at the staff and I was like, imagine speaking of gathering together, like imagine for pure K&F, imagine this, this Korean natural farming movement, this, this like centerpiece of regenerative agriculture. Imagine we had a staff of executives where we had four people that were like into it, that really loved doing natural farming and we were able to like get them funds. And we had an executive staff here. And then we had a whole department of directors and people that were coordinators and people

25:34 to say, Hey, you're doing this in that area. Great. Let's coordinate. You're doing this in that area. Great. Let's coordinate. Oh, and then moving further into helping each other, market produce, build brand, all these things, right? It's like this, this, this here, you know, just putting this out there. If you know somebody that has, you know, the ability to help this happen, you know, and to build something like this. And by no means am I like saying like, well, I guess, you know, like, like just imagine this where it's like, you know, we have the many, many natural farmers academy.

26:09 And like, then we were able to, well, I don't know if we need to offer family services, maybe. But just like these ideas where it's like, look at these. I guess more than anything, it's like inspiring to see other folks that are able to get together and help youth, help natural farming. And these guys are going to be doing some natural farming. They're sending out this guy here. Look how many people are helping with youth education services. Look at this. It's just like imagine if this was also natural farming.

26:41 They're sending out this guy here, and he's going to come out, and he's going to learn natural farming, which is totally in alignment with all indigenous cultures, the way we're doing it since forever. It's like, but I just, I look at this and I'm like, wow, imagine that kind of staff. Imagine those kinds of people, you know, development and communications. Like imagine we had a development and communications department of this magnitude where there were multiple people that were like on it to help us organize. You know, this many people helping us finance, which I don't know if we, you know,

27:14 operations, all this. It's just like, you know, anyway, long story short, when I look at those kind of things, I get inspired and I think, man, if we can help get more members or get our membership offering, can gather people together, maybe, maybe, maybe one day Korean natural farming can be that organized, can be that much of a thing to help folks. Because, you know, more and more people need regenerative agriculture, returning back to our roots, healing the earth, healing the ocean, healing the land,

28:00 learning that we are all from the soil. No matter what color your skin or what tribe you come from, we're all from the earth. You know, that kind of thing. Remember, remember, remember, we're just fancy mech warriors for microbes. Who's doing the thinking in here? It's the microbes. We eat better food. We get better thoughts. We get better actions. We do better things. And it all starts with the soil, right? Not at all, but most of it starts with the soil. Some of it starts with our attitude. Um, cause thoughts are things, but, um, but baseball bats hurt worse.

28:42 Um, what's up printer bear? We got printer bear in the house. Merry pre Christmas. God bless. Yeah. Thanks for showing up. Thanks. Thank you for showing up. You know, I show up because you show up, but I also show up because of the foundation and, um, master Cho, pure can have foundation, all these things. Flat Eric, he'll choke me in the middle of the night if I don't show up. It's kind of blurry. Maybe it's a good thing it's blurry. It's all good. Today it's blurry. It's good. Yeah, mele kalikimaka to all of us. What's up, so? Yeah, thanks.

29:25 I'm glad you found the channel. I'm glad you're doing these things. man look at that now I made it all bright in here maybe it's just the sun it's the first time it's been sunny in like three weeks here so uh mud's drying up was easier to milk today all those things um and what's up George we got George from Latvia how's it man must be cold up there right now I bet you it's gonna get colder though January seems like the coldest month I'm not sure um yeah, like a canna fogger the forest program. Yeah. Like, so imagine, imagine I'm going to go

30:01 back here over to this thing. Imagine if under the staff, if, you know, there was a department of forest restoration, you know, forest regeneration. And it was like, you know, somebody was in charge of, you know, drone operations and, um, someone is in charge of, you know, IMO collection and the IMO library. Imagine we had an IMO library, you know, all the departments that we need, the department of child diet, you know, so that our kids stop eating high fructose corn syrup so they can think again, you know. All these things.

30:46 it just, it just imagined that all the, all the different departments we could have of, you know, what's good. So it all starts with, you know, turning ourselves into good leaders. So if you want to be part of it, you want to join, we'll see, we'll see if we can get it together in the next few days here. I know it's the holidays. I got a bunch of family here. I'm trying to do a whole bunch of things, but we may be able to just get a, a, what we have together up because we've been working on a whole lot and we've written really tight requirements and specifications to

31:20 build something that, um, so when you do that as a software designer, you know, that if you have really tight requirements and specifications and that really well written, that the actual construction phase is pretty minimal. You have requirements should be your biggest phase. Construction should be pretty small and then testing and integration and should be huge. and then loop that around again, keep that in a loop, right? So construction phase is actually fairly small and, but we don't have any plan for testing or implementation because, um, we just

31:56 don't, um, we're a small staff of doing things. So anyway, um, and George is asking, is the course next month fully booked? Um, the answer is no, actually a fair amount of people are wanting, like like the thing the thing is um in terms of students that can take the class i can pretty much take infinite uh but i prefer to keep it small so um so if you're able to get here get accommodations elsewhere and come to the class every day then there's no limit to that really besides that at a certain point i'd have to be like you know there's too many people here and

32:40 I'd rather work with a smaller amount of people and give them a higher quality education than having like 60 people there where it's like everyone gets like a little bit versus I'd rather have a few people and give them a lot. Um, so that's, that's the way I've, I've set up my classes to have fewer people. So with that, I can have infinite, but majority of people that are coming are actually opting to camp. So, and, and, or, um, and, or I'm not sure. Yeah. So, so there is definitely one cottage available still. Um, so there's still one spot for sure.

33:22 There may be two. I got to double check with, uh, with the guy coming from the south side of the island. I'm not sure if he's going to book a cottage and stay in like luxurious spots or he's going to drive back and forth or he's going to like sleep in his car or I don't know. I haven't talked to him specifically to get that information yet, but we'll see. And so I can, I can educate a ton of folks, but I only have a certain amount of accommodations. So there are still accommodations. um yeah and uh george maybe maybe reach out to the pure knf foundation and see if um if they can

34:02 help you out um they might be able to that they used to do scholarships and this year i don't think any uh actually one scholarship was issued and it was issued to pedro um so one scholarship was issued this year it's man it's like it feels like it was like years ago but it was actually the beginning of this year, uh, Pedro from Brazil was here and he got here via, um, some, some natural farming, um, scholarships from the foundation. Um, you know, cause he traveled from Brazil, right? Which again, yeah, it's a small fortune to get around the world. And, um, yeah, so he was

34:42 able to do that with a little bit of financial support and that, that helped him out. Um, so reach out, send an email. I think the email got to be listed on the foundation website somewhere. Oh, there's a contact on there. Oh, no, there's not. There's a contact page. Click on that contact page and see what you can get. They might be able to help you. um and so question um here from thor is how many cows do i have um and we have seven now seven i just counted them the other day so we got two dairy cows we got a

35:28 guernsey and now a half guernsey half um what is a big dairy cow holstein half guernsey half holstein because my neighbor's Holstein jumped over the fence, or actually my Guernsey jumped over the fence and got what she needed from that Holstein and got the male milk put in her. And then a baby cow came out and it's a nice little beautiful girl. So we're going to have, we got two dairy cows. Then we got two red Angus, although they're black, which is kind of funny. but I think they're red Angus cows, and those are big ones.

36:16 And then we have three Wagyu beefs. So I saw someone the other day talking about making Angus Wagyu mixes, and that's basically the path I'm going to be headed down, because we now have a Red Angus bull, And we have Wagyu moms. Three Wagyu moms and one Angus bull. So we'll be making Wanguses. Wanguses? Is that right? I don't know. Or Angu? Angu? I don't know. Wanguses.

37:02 We'll be making Wanguses. I'm just going to call them Wangus sounds better also I heard Mercury's in retrograde and Mars is in Uranus so yeah so seven cows that's what I've been doing man I've been doing dairy and cattle management and I've basically been switching into ranching. Just the other day, I let the cows go through my sugarcane patch, and all my good variety of sugarcane, they, like, snapped because it's really soft and really good, and they snapped them all and, like, destroyed it.

37:48 And I'm like, and all the hard sugarcane, that's not really my favorite, but it's okay. It's good. I mean, I can still juice it and still make sugarcane juice out of it. But I'm like, they left all that. I'm like, man, it's like, it's just like that. That's what happens when you, when you have poor cattle management, they will destroy all the good stuff and leave all the junk stuff. And then your whole field will turn to junk. It's like, that's why you need to rotationally manage and, you know, move them and get them going. And, um, you know, and for me, it's like, oh,

38:21 it's wintertime grass slowing down it's like hard but I just moved them into a pasture above the kitchen so let me see if I can pull this up here let's see yeah let's see here pull this up here let's get this to show that terrain satellite okay so let's see, I'm going to zoom in here. Where's the farm at? Here it is. Okay, I'm going to switch this over. So here's the farm right here. Basically, there's the boundaries of the farm. It goes down into this river too. So let me zoom out a little bit. Can I rotate? No, I can't. So anyway,

39:08 Okay, just for reference, ocean on this side, 13,000-foot mountain on this side. Let's see. 13,000-foot mountain right here, ocean right there. And I am right here. And so ocean down here and mountain over here. So when I say I move the things up, up is always this direction. Down is that direction. um so i just had the cows and i just destroyed this whole i just had them in here and just destroyed this whole spot not that i destroyed it it's i mean there's still things and there's still a lot of sugar in there but um had the cows go through this paddock where they were able to go

39:56 into this field here and then down into this valley because this valley is actually full of nice grass and but water and it starts right here it starts from a spring just up on um above my land right up on my neighbor's land. It starts right there and the spring comes down. By the time it gets down here, it's actually a little creek and really nice valley in there for them to graze. And I moved them from here and then I moved them over here. They then destroyed, I say destroyed, they grazed this little spot here. I had them graze all along there.

40:29 and then today or just yesterday I put them up into this pasture right here so from here to there is all one big pasture and I built a little shed right here and I make triangles so I've tried to divide this spot here into eight pieces and I just moved them up into this so basically they're in a sector that goes from here like this I can't draw on this because it's google maps um should have pulled up google earth but um that's okay um so from here to there and then here to there I could put them in a triangle like that and there's a little I built a little shed in

41:17 here with a little water tank and a water trough and they're in that triangle right there but this pasture in the past year of doing the drone flying the drone over spraying it putting fish doing the right things building soil foundation doing everything right putting compost tea putting the imo imos out this pasture is so lush right now it was it was uh it was about hip high and just but so lush so diverse so much good grass versus the junk grass that the cows had had reduced it from. So over the past couple of years of maintaining it, it's now really nice grass.

41:58 And then other news, since I got the map up, pigs broke through the fence right here. So the pigs right here, they broke through this fence and then they'd been coming through this area into this triangle. And then they've been destroying this lower pasture without me really noticing because the cows have been on rotation. Like I'm rotating her here. So she's been rotating this direction. My dairy cow has been rotating this direction. And I got, I went down, I saw a little bit of pig damage. They just dig up the ground and all your grass and everything

42:30 you spent so much time to establish and just dig it up and basically till your field. Um, and they had been tilling this lower part of this field. So all under the breadfruit tree and all down here is all tilled up now. And they'd been breaking through the fence right there and coming It's sneaking behind, sneaking behind into here and down into this pasture and destroying this. And I only noticed that the other day when they kind of destroyed right here in the lawn. And then they destroyed right here outside the gate.

43:02 And it's like, but right now there are so many pigs around because they're wild pigs. And they just run up and down these river valleys. and there's basically zero cooperation between my neighbor here which I need him to fix his fence here so that then they don't or his actually his whole his whole fence line here is really weak and pigs break into his field and then they'll walk across his field and then they'll break through these valleys into my place and it's like bro just fix your fence right here uh and then the

43:35 pigs won't come in and then I won't have that upper pressure on the land. And then pigs also right now, this field from here down is basically there are about just tons of sweet potatoes, because when they go and harvest the sweet potatoes, they only take the small ones they can sell. They leave the big ones in the field and the ones that are misshapen or deformed or damaged. They leave them in the field. So this entire field here, which is probably, I'd say, 10 to 15 acres, maybe. Nah, maybe it's not. Maybe it's about seven acres or so. So imagine about

44:19 seven acres of sweet potatoes just laying in the field. And so pigs are coming from everywhere, all around here. They're coming in there. They come down these valleys. They come from everywhere, and they're down in this field feeding and then there's huge families of them and then when they breed and then they use these river valleys to live in and then they come up and then this guy here his his fence he also has some holes in his fence but right now this field is electric fenced out so it's this one because they're currently growing sweet potatoes in there but then the

44:55 pigs come and then huge amounts of them come down and then they walk across here and they come up this valley and then they go right through here and smash through my fence it's just like so anyway hopefully that um oh i can double click oh no it doesn't do that no but um okay so but yeah so anyway dealing with pigs dealing you know it's funny i grow pigs in this little barn. We have domestic pigs, we have chickens, but this is a really old photo on here. It's Google Earth. But anyway, while the map was up, I figured man's well give you a little

45:34 update on that and trying to keep those pigs out, keep them from tilling the land. Because I've spent so much time building soil foundation and building all these things and the pigs just come through and till it. It's like, oh, gotta have, gotta have good animal management, I tell you. So, um, okay. Anyway, it's almost, what else? Any, any other questions? What do we got? We got anything else? Korean natural farming. I want to find out, um, furthermore, um, what, um, what we should get into for this upcoming year. Cause the prior

46:21 prior years, I started off with, um, with Master Cho's presentations. I went more into the education like last year and those things. That was really good. I was thinking about getting into something this year that would be a little bit more than just, um, what do you call like, um, just answering questions and things like in addition to answering questions, cause I, you know, it's nice and I want to build community. I want to gather together, but I wanted to get something that I could have to kind of fall back on that we could kind of go through together. So, um, let's see, you know, um,

47:16 you know, just looking at what other stuff I got, I have so much information, so it'd be interesting. You know, what, what topics if you, if you guys, you know, since you're here, maybe you can suggest a few topics of what you would like to get into this upcoming year of, you know, Korean natural farming. Like what, you know, little, little, few suggestions for me, help me out so I can help you out and just see, you know, um, I think, uh, let me, let me do this here, pop this up. So I know, I know there's been significant interest in what I call disgustingly cheap Korean natural farming.

47:59 This is Young Song Cho's version of, like, this is making a, what he calls, Jadam microbe solution, and what I call disgustingly cheap microbes. So in this trash can here. This was filled with water. Then these sacks, these socks over here were filled with dirt. And these sacks over here were filled with potatoes. And then there was a little bit of salt put in here and this was able to bubble. And then look at that nice action. You know, look how far away that bubble ring is and look how nice the bubbles are going. So this was a

48:38 really nice active batch. And then I came here with a watering can to water it out over all this pesticided back stoop here. This is actually at the Sweet King Cafe. And then I also use this, my Maruyama sprayer to spray this out there. So water can plus the sprayer getting out there. But look, look at this nice differentiation. You know, this is, this is when it's primed to use. Look, you got the bubble separation. Look how active bubbly it is. Then you also have the separation from the edges, meaning that the convection currents are moving, moving in together,

49:16 you know, they're, they're spinning in together to do their thing. Um, so, um, so yeah, so going over, um, the Jadam stuff, you know, I'm, I'm also like, in addition to probably being one of the, one of the most highly trained, I think the most highly trained Korean natural farming English speaking person at this point in life, I'm also one of the most experienced with Jadam and Young Song Cho. He lived right here in this building for a month. So he lived on my farm for a month. And then I've been to like his seminar like 12 times or something. I mean,

50:04 it's a super simple seminar if you've ever been to it, but I've been to it like 12 times. More than that, I have so many certificates. Each time I had them write me a certificate because I'm like, one day I may need to flip through all these and flex on somebody to be like, look, I'm qualified, but who cares? Whatever, credentials, it's action. It's who you are as a person, right? So showing all those things out there. But yeah, so maybe it might make sense to pull out the orange books from behind here. I do have them on the shelf. They're great.

50:36 um young song what a great book written you know mainly by young song and ray and maybe maybe go through a little bit of the cheaper side of knf and uh maybe yeah i think i think i'm gonna write that down here start the new year disgustingly cheap um dcm disgustingly cheap microbes or dcs disgustingly cheap solutions we'll call it dcs um and go through his stuff because i know there's been renewed interest in that um some people see it they think this is great and i'm like it's pretty gross um but but it's a stepping stone to getting into master chose methods to finding

51:20 um true really good um natural farming getting into those so um so um yeah so and then composting infused with limo solutions. Perhaps growing some hemp to see if it is good materials for compost when shredded. One thing I can tell you is hemp is amazing at compost, uh especially mulching it is because it is so um tough the carbon that is accumulated in

52:08 the hemp plant itself the carbon is like it's almost i want to say it's like lignin but i don't think it is but it's so tough that the microbes the fungus that ends up colonizing the hemp plant as it's decomposing are like chief microbes. They're all down there. They got their Bob Marley pumped up to high volume. They got their, um, their dreadlocks and they are consuming that hemp in the most peaceful way possible. And hemp builds amazing compost. I've, I've seen it where people have taken their, um, you know, the clippings from their, from their plants and they put them

52:52 in a tub and stuff. And just the, the, the mycelial action, the things that are happening, everything that's happening in there, it's just amazing. So, um, but how to make that into a limo, I would say just take some of those hemp stocks and those, those, that plant material, grind it up as best as you can, which I know it's kind of hard to grind, but put that in there and it'll help to kind of infuse it. Or take some compost that you made out of a hemp plant and then put that in as part of, in addition with the IMOs that you gather, seed IMO plus your activated IMO,

53:34 so what Master Joe would call IMO 1 and IMO 4 or 2, well, whatever, 1 or 2 and 4, put that into your tea plus a compost from that hemp and man, you're going to get some amazing stuff. So, um, yeah, um, I, I would think that, you know, I've just seen so many good things from that plant. It's, it's, it's so regenerative and how it, how it, what the, the, the microbes it makes in the soil, the things it does, the, the, the exudates, the, the mycelial reactions. it's like it's it's one of those um miracle plants like coconuts and hemp and uh i don't know it's

54:19 just it has so many uses it's like and in the history between it and man you know like that's what created america they were like sow hemp and be be prosperous like um and then then it got prohibition and all that stuff against it but it's coming back man um and then um I just, um, hang on. I'm trying to look up one thing here. Um, um, yeah, yeah, here we are. Okay. Um, yeah, here, if you are, if you're looking for a, uh, um, a hemp source, by the way,

55:10 um, this guy right here, um, Mowgli, uh, he's up in Michigan. And, um, so he, um, he's, he's a good friend of mine and he came out to Hawaii and he's been doing great things. We, we've been talking about getting lactobacillus, but he makes hemp bedding and let's see, let's see his company website. Let's see what happens. So, so it's, it's hemp bedding.org bedding.org. So if you're looking for, you know, and talk, talk to him, he he's up, um, he's up there. Um, but this stuff, you know, they, they, they put it in, they, they're,

55:50 they've been inoculating. We've been talking to him about getting natural farming into this, but he he's all about, um, you know, look at these sweet horses laying in that hemp bedding. they're all more relaxed, you know. Um, and look at this little rat. He's enjoying it too. Um, but hempbedding.org, if you're looking for it, I don't know if he'd hook you up with deals. If you let him know you're a natural farmer, I don't know. You'd have to talk to him about these things, but, um, but maybe you could work with him on an experiment to do the, um, the microbes in there,

56:27 maybe work something out with him. But, um, if you, if you are looking for hemp bedding, not that I'm advertising, but, um, but my buddy Mowgli, he's, he's legit and he does great stuff. So, um, so anyway, that's there too. Um, yeah, it's, it's actually, it's hard to get, um, uh, grow the waste from, from grows around you because that's so heavily regulated that they have to like way every every ounce of the plant has to be accounted for you know um so it's hard to get waste um because of the permitting and the whole process and and how america went about it i think

57:07 majority of theirs comes from canada and france and like more um where they have different things where they're not all paranoid that people are going to smoke hemp it's like in fact if it was me i would encourage people to smoke hemp because then you just end up getting a headache and nothing psychedelic. And then you'd realize this is dumb. So if everyone just smoked a bit of industrial hemp, you would realize that, yeah. If all the legislators did it, they'd be like, why are we regulating this again? It's like, I don't know. I suppose you could take it and distill it all, right?

57:48 You could run it through a process to make an extract out of if you wanted. But by the time you get done with that, you're going to realize it is not that cost effective. So, yeah, and they do they do toss truckloads in the dump. It's just the nature of it. You know, you got to get into those places and be like, hey, look, I want to be your your closed cycle money saving person.

58:20 I want to work for you to help you save money by taking these things and composting them, fermenting them, bringing them back, bringing that, you know, and go and be that person that introduces Korean natural farming, composting, regenerative ag, and doing those things. So, um, yeah, so, you know, just, just partner with someone that's existing, that's doing this and be like, look, we, you know, let's do a small pilot. Let's see how much money we can save. I bet you it's a bunch and whatever, you know, whatever money we save on that, uh, just take

58:55 us, you know, some of that as a paycheck for helping you. And, um, I bet you the whole hemp operation could be changed. So Korean natural farming, get in there and bring it in, gather together. Be that leader. Do those things, right? So, yeah, 9,000 seeds. Yeah, and that's the thing, man. Hemp puts out a bunch of seeds. Seeds, super delicious, super nutritious, really good things for you. Eat them, grow them, do the right things. Hemp chips would compost. I think composting hemp's a great idea. It's really good stuff. It grows so fast. It does so good with biomass. It's great.

59:37 So anyway, well, it is 10 o'clock. It is, it is, did my office hour. I know I wasn't here. I was here like right at the nick of time because I've been milking and things. You know, the other thing here I got, maybe, maybe give you a little preview is what else we got? I almost slides. one other thing I was thinking about going over here in the future was that I also, let's see here, I also took down a bunch of notes and things, right? So I have a bunch of notebooks, which I'm going to scroll through this way too fast for it to go because I don't want

1:00:19 you to screen grab it. But these are my notes. And I was thinking maybe, maybe one thing to do with you folks would be to go over my notes and maybe go through the, um, the series. Um, so, so one thing like on, um, let's see here. Yeah. If I go to the YouTube, which I always goes to this video, I don't know why, but, um, go to my channel and maybe go through also some of these, these courses here and go through and review my notes and go through it with you guys and talk and go through the intricate details of, you know, what is Master Cho talking about?

1:01:04 What are they doing? You know, the no smell pigs, all these things. So I guess I do have a whole bunch of information coming up for next year, doing things, getting them together. But I've been thinking about it because, you know, I always want to keep it fun, entertaining. I want to keep it growing. I want to keep you guys with a source of good information you can continue to return to. I want to continue to build the community with you and get through it. So, um, so if we can all, you know, work together, get these things together, I got plenty. I know I

1:01:34 got more. It's just a matter of, um, putting in the right place and, um, tuning in. So there's always more and we'll be back. So, um, so I just want to thank you guys for tuning in. Hey, Cheryl, I'm glad you got to sleep in a little bit Christmas. Enjoy, enjoy the eggnog hangover. And, um, do I know? Hang on one sec. I got this one question. Let me see if I can look this up just real quick while we're here and just see what the heck the internet has to say. I don't want to try that browser. Less and less, I trust DuckDuckGo. It also has the Google wall on it.

1:02:20 Let's just see what the Wikipedia has to say on this. Whoa, what is this? Jerusalem Archite. Mexican Sunflower. Hola. Perennial. Yeah, it has shown great potential in raising soil fertility and soils depleted of nutrients. So apparently this plant also brings in a bunch of exudates. So check this plant out. It came from Mexico. And yeah, increased plantains. This is a cool plant. I would definitely ferment this, just plant it as like a girl with tree marigotons. Yeah,

1:03:09 look at that. You can give it to your, your ladies and make them even more beautiful. That's awesome. Um, so yeah, cool. That's a good one. Thanks for, thanks for bringing that to my attention. I will look into that. Okay. Okay. Um, yes, those are great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Get some of this. Okay. Okay. Well, anyway, um, yeah, just want to thank you for tuning in. It's, you know, thanks for Christmas. Hopefully Santa brings you what you wanted, which of course is coal, right? Everyone wanted coal because if we all get coal, then we can all use that coal from

1:03:45 Santa and then we wouldn't have to mine the earth, right? It's just like if we just got meat from the store, then we wouldn't have to kill any animals. No. Oh, yeah. Okay. Um, yeah. Anyway, um, actually tell, tell Santa that the, the, the new thing is that we, we actually want, um, biochar. Yeah. Cho, cho cho cho okay friends okay um to everyone out there uh good merry christmas good night getting a chicken plucker good i hope you get what you want um and if you don't get what you want just always know that um you just gotta lower your expectations man

1:04:34 okay all right anyway uh wishing wishing you the best i will see you i i i i most likely most likely most likely will be back um for the day before new year's let me just double check the calendar one more time i believe i believe oh it's today i believe i can be back on the 31st we'll see new year's eve i may see you then i may not i don't know i might just take the day off and enjoy. But anyway, looking forward to seeing you. Thanks for building this family. Thanks for gathering together. Thanks for turning yourself into a leader and gathering others around you

1:05:12 for goodness and greatness and looking forward to continuing to live with you on this beautiful earth. So thank you. Long live the natural farmer. Love you. Gotta switch this over. Yeah. All right. Okay. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. All right. We're going to burst out of here. All Bye.