Banana Bunchy Top Drone Check, Mushroom Endophytes, Soil Science
An I Ching reading on dispersion opens the show. Drake then plays drone footage comparing his banana patch in August 2023 to December 2023, looking for progress against bunchy top. The leaves shifted from light green to dark evergreen, and he thinks the spread has slowed, though he admits he can't fully judge by eye.
Dr. Park says Master Cho's wife is blocking contact, so there's no full update this week. A viewer asks about adding plant juice extracts to mushroom growing substrate for more medicinal value. Drake likes the idea of misting KNF solutions onto mushrooms but notes some species are sensitive to contamination after sterilization.
Solar Gourmet shares research from Gabriele Berg on plant endophytes: half a plant's microbiome comes from its seed, the rest from the environment, and stomach acid doesn't destroy the endophytes in raw vegetables, an argument against hard blending or juicing. Drake also flags Harriet Mella's paid soil courses, Rick Haney's soil health test, and Dr. James White's work on rhizophagy at Rutgers.
Drake debates whether all this science actually makes someone a better farmer, landing on application and knowledge of your own land mattering more. He closes by comparing a full year of monthly drone flyovers: pastures grazed with fish amendments look fuller, while the banana patch and sugarcane stayed about the same.
Questions answered
- 10:23 Does the drone footage show the banana bunchy top improving from August to December? — The leaves shifted from light green to dark evergreen, and Drake thinks the spread has slowed, maybe reversing.
- 22:37 Any update on reaching Master Cho? — Dr. Park said Master Cho's wife is blocking access, so there's no full contact yet.
- 25:46 Can you add plant extracts to mushroom growing substrate for more medicinal value? — Drake says plant juices can work, but some mushrooms are sensitive to contamination once sterilized.
- 27:18 Would fish amino acid on mushrooms make them grow bigger? — Drake isn't sure about fish amino specifically, but misting KNF solutions onto mushrooms seems worth trying.
- 28:07 What did Gabriele Berg find studying plant endophytes? — She's studied plant microbiomes for 20 years and found stomach acid doesn't harm the endophytes in fresh vegetables.
- 32:58 Does juicing or blending plants destroy that microbiome benefit? — Drake says fast blending exposes cells and endophytes to acid too quickly, the same reason you never blend a plant juice ferment.
- 35:23 Did anyone check out Harriet Mella's podcast on biodynamics and Master Cho? — Drake listened partway; she mentioned Master Cho and KNF briefly, then moved on to other topics.
- 37:36 Is Harriet Mella's Carbon Microcycling course worth $295? — A commenter said it wasn't worth it, and Drake prefers in-person training over paid online courses.
- 41:31 What is the Rick Haney soil analysis? — It's an extraction method built to measure overall soil health and microbial influence on plant mineral availability.
- 43:56 What is rhizophagy? — Dr. James White's research shows endophytes let plants absorb whole nutrient molecules and pull soil microbes inside to fight pathogens.
- 44:52 Is soil science important to being a better KNF farmer? — Drake says it's interesting, but application and knowing your own land, animals, and water may matter more.
- 50:37 Did a full year of drone flyovers show real farm improvement? — Pastures grazed with fish amendments look fuller and more fertile, while the banana patch stayed about the same.
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In this episode
- 0:00 Welcome, testing the stream
- 0:47 I Ching: dispersion, wind over water
- 4:54 Good morning, farm update intro
- 6:37 Drone footage: bunchy top recovery, Aug vs Dec
- 17:09 11 months of drone flyovers, full farm view
- 22:37 Master Cho update via Dr. Park
- 25:46 Mushroom substrate: plant juices and endophytes
- 28:07 Gabriele Berg's endophyte research
- 35:23 Harriet Mella's courses and biodynamics
- 41:31 Rick Haney soil analysis
- 43:56 Rhizophagy and James White's work
- 44:52 Is soil science necessary to farm well?
- 50:37 Comparing a year of drone footage: pastures and crops
- 55:33 Thanks and sign off
Transcript
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0:00 We're live! I think we were streaming, we just weren't live. Hey, with Cecily, how's it? Let me just double check this here, make sure it actually is live, because I think it just was, but it wasn't. Get a little bit of inner truth. we're live yeah yeah we are live
0:47 hey what's up from Bermuda solar gourmet up in Germany stonemason in Indiana hey guys oh good to see you there welcome to office hours December 3rd, 2023 I think we're live now it's all going and let's see here get some higher wisdom, some I Ching for us Inner truth turning into... Strength belongs to those who are inwardly and outwardly devoted to what is good.
1:37 Examine yourself for negative habits and let go of them before they cause a fall. That's good advice there. Wind over water. Wind over water. 59 is dispersion or dissolution. Disperse hard attitudes with gentleness. the hexagram Juan comes to indicate there are rigidity and harshness present either in yourself
2:27 or in others and that they should be dissolved now for the benefit of all whenever we fall into a negative state such as a judgment anger fear anxiety or desire our debt our attitude becomes structured and inflexible as long as we remain in this condition we cannot receive the assistance of the higher power therefore if we wish to return of good fortune now we must take steps to dissolve the hardness hmm it is the image of huan of a warm spring steadily dissolving winter ice
3:14 and is meant to teach us that through perseverance and gentleness rather than aggressiveness that we overcome what is hard the yi ching counsels us the use of religious forces now employ music prayer, meditation, or a common project, or some other form of sacred concentration or ceremony to release up pent-up energy in yourself and others. Allow harsh and unforgiving feelings to be carried away by the song of a flute, the reverberation of a drum, or the sound of the wind through the trees. in your mind's eye see where the flow of positive energy is blocked and then imagine this place
4:07 where ice flow is blow ice flow is thawing up the river breaking up the thawing river until the inflexibility inflexibility is removed there can be no unity either within your own spirit with others or with the sage. Remember that inferior emotions are hard, whereas the attitudes of the superior person, acceptance, detachment, modesty, innocence, and equanimity have a quality of softness to them. By returning to this now, you ensure your own good fortune.
4:52 so thanks for tuning in to office hours i got a good good group of folks here today awesome good to see you all all around the world bermuda germany printer bear idaho nice whole stack of animals there i sent asu's a whole stack of our emojis of our animals while she was away she knows like a huge emoji list of animals so we have good morning from washington state rainy a little rainy here too um so today goof man in the house hey what's up mark cool um i did have a little bit of some stuff to share a little bit over here
5:46 I put this up the other day. Let me make it better. I have to zoom that in. Okay, well, let me just switch over to this screen here. Huntington Beach. Catch some waves, bro. So you guys can see my screen, right? Can you hear me? Can you see the screen? Well, so what I wanted to do here, if you can see that, is the other day I put out a video. Okay, cool. You can see it. You can hear me. Okay, so the other day I put out a video of all these YouTube, like it's kind of like a montage thing.
6:37 And people are like, what is that? Well, so I have today, I just kind of broke it. I'm going to break it down a little bit more simply here where I have August 2023 here. So this is when we started kind of, we got the sprayer here, started spraying doggo standing there flexing. And then this, this one down below is December 2023 here. so if I go here and hit play on that one and then when that one gets over to where this one's at some of the reasons some of the other time laps didn't exactly happen
7:23 hopefully they're pretty synced right now I don't know exactly but Oh, one almost hit it, August. They both almost hit the tree. See how they're making a turn of the pile? So, let's go.
10:23 so um yeah so there there you get to kind of see um see how both video is there and um so i i don't know maybe maybe you can discuss that i i i'm just i'm trying to get some stuff together for kind of my my year end um you know what did we do this year and we got the drone and we've been flying it there and i've been testing and i don't know if the you know did i make an improvement on the bunchy top i i i can't tell did i like my wife was saying i did the other day she said i just i just can't
11:13 color very well. Let's see. Yeah, so, you know, is there any, if I look at the bunchy top here and I go back, you know, and spin that around. almost the same angle there I know looks happy yeah I hope so I mean I don't know so but you know so basically you know the
12:02 difference between August 2023 when I first did the drone flyover you know lots of bungee top advancing, taking out these areas, you know, just spreading around. And then now, now when I look at it, it looks to me like they're getting more full. You know, the ones that got hit by a bunch of top really bad in the back still got hit really bad still. But I think it's coming back to life. Like, I think I stopped the spread back here. I mean, I hate to use those words because, you know, it only took two weeks. Um, but, um, everything went from light green to
12:53 dark evergreen. Okay. So there is a shift maybe in the green color. So is that like, that's a healthier looking shift color green. Evergreen sounds pretty healthy to me. You know, Also, if anybody knows about drone color grading or whatever, if I shot this in RAW, if we could get the same color. I don't know if you know anything about that in particular where perhaps we could get it where the color is always the same despite the time of day that I shoot. I'm not sure if that's even possible but control this as much as possible in terms of like what it
13:38 you know making the landscape try to look the same each time it'd be cool if I could kind of lock them and synchronize them just drag one slider and they both move at the same time and the Juby's hanging out right there so yeah And hopefully you guys enjoyed last week as well. Last week we got into some of the videos I shot in Korea earlier. So you guys got a little sneak peek on that because I wasn't here. I was milking last week. It was hectic for me. Even this week I felt like I had an aneurysm last night, something like that.
14:25 Crazy, my brain was all short-circuiting this morning and today. um so cool so yeah and just I don't know when I look at this photo here and I look um does it look healthier I don't know August looked pretty healthy it's definitely not I think I've stopped the spread slowed the spread now reversing it hopefully but we'll see August also is like a time for you know lots of bananas to be ripe and ready and everything and December is not nearly the same growing season so to kind of just be like oh well get the same results in december i guess
15:06 we'll have to see where the results are next august 2023 to get a full comparison here because this um yeah this is only part of it so anyway yeah so i wanted to share that with you um I hope you found that helpful there, seeing kind of the, you know, what a year of, what is that? Four months of spraying KNF. Yeah, and I'm just trying to, you know, this is a big hole right here. This right here is a big hole.
15:52 the ground I'm just trying to treat the bunchy top in this sector primarily yeah I don't know I don't know if it got better it's just my eyes maybe I don't know it's up to you guys or up I mean I think I just need to look at it longer when I'm looking at it with you here yeah maybe it's healthier now I don't know so where it's spraying each week maybe
16:45 oh well okay well let's see cecily says it looks lovely we'll go with that cecily's the judge okay um what else do we have uh oh yeah the other thing i'm gonna share was the youtube or no it's not i don't have it on the youtube i have it here this one okay and then do this okay so so this here um i'm gonna mute it out um maybe a tiny bit of volume
17:34 would do it um so this is a um it's a time lapse not a time lapse it's a every month i flew over the land with the drone so that's what this is
21:04 so that was the um that's more of the every bit of the farm flyover so i don't know a couple different ideas takes on um flying farming uh yeah um so had a pretty good year I would say mostly converted the farm over started ranching you know and milking micro dairy can't have micro dairies out here so so let's
21:52 see here what else what else we got going on anything else out there that's those are a couple things i wanted to share with you guys getting here this morning i've just um you know been working on a couple of those projects well so um i guess see what else is going on natural farming wise i don't know if i told you
22:37 guys the other day but um i talked with dr park and um he said he got in touch with um master cho only to find out that his wife was blocking his um his access so dr park couldn't fully get a hold of Master Cho. Just small, you know, holiday update if you're thinking about Master Cho, thinking about any of the, you know, giving thanks for the thankfulness that we have. Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. I don't even think I've been here since then. Last week, I was busy milking, and then this week, you know, here. But, yeah so I had a good Thanksgiving
23:23 got a turkey for my friend in the farmer's union in Koala it's pretty cool why is this phone on so let us see here so yeah well I don't know if anyone else has anything they want to share what's the email wise what do we got somebody shared with me something recently I know it pull that up though
24:10 oh you know what okay here we go this is this is what was worthwhile talking to you guys the other day talking about this um uh what was plowed plowed in the land next door okay so i guess yeah before back to that question. My neighbor plows, let's see, my neighbor, my neighbor grows sweet potatoes, tons and tons of sweet potatoes. So they plow that whole field, they till it all up, and then they'll plant sweet potatoes in there. Let me pull up that video right here
24:58 I'll show you basically the planting sweet potatoes. Where do they do it? They're right down here. They'll plant a whole bunch of sweet potatoes down here below me. That's his nice tractor there. I don't know if you can see it. That's a nice tractor he uses to till that land. and then he'll um so i guess maybe can you see it from my land yeah i guess i don't really but this yeah that that's that's my neighbor's sweet potatoes they do and um so it's it's growing like you know 20 acres of sweet potatoes right now
25:46 and he's not doing it knf style and when it rains the ocean out here gets all muddy because although mud and dirt washes out so it's not the best best happening there but so so I've been uh rainbow possum farm says she's been dabbling with growing gourmet and functional mushrooms lately. I saw someone mention adding plant extracts to growing substrate to get better medicinal value out of the mushrooms. Thoughts? I would say, yeah, yeah. If you can put like plant
26:42 juices and those things in there, some mushrooms are very specific when you sterilize them though. And the plant juices, we were just talking about the endophytes. That's actually what I was going to bring up, you know, that might infect them. I'm not sure. Um, but also just soaking mushrooms afterward after when you're, um, if you're, if you're misting them and you're spritzing them, you know, in, in mushroom houses, they'll like spritz the mushrooms, put, put the, uh, K and F like the, um, the medicine and the, you know, I would think a plant juice. I would just use,
27:14 you know, um, solutions on them. I wonder how they'd respond with fish aminos. I don't, I don't know if you put the fuel on there if they get huge mushrooms or something i i don't know but misting misting it on to um misting it on to your growing mushrooms seems like a good idea for sure um yeah so here here is the uh oh shoot let's see make this happen over here okay transition then okay so here um here's a little bit about solar gourmet which i don't know if i want to talk something like that but um but uh so so he's saying um uh you know he's thankful for the show
28:07 um you know in the exponential curve growing all that happening um and then he was talking about endophytes. He was talking about Professor Gabrielle Berg, and she's in Austria. But let's just pull her up here and see. Is her in the back, I think? Not sure who that is. It's an apple person. put a biologist here so focuses on microbiomes and translations of results into new biotechnology technological concepts for our environment as well as for our plant and human health so gabrielle berg
28:53 um she's from potsdam germany let's see so it looks like so she has a bunch of publications plant dependent genotypic and phenotypic diversity antagonistic rhizobacteria isolated from different verticulum plant hosts.
29:39 Wow. Okay, she's a rhizosphere as a reservoir for opportunistic human pathogenic bacteria. Bulk and rhizosphere soil bacteria community studied by denatured gradient plant gel electrophoresis plant-dependent enriched and seasonal shifts revealed. Quorum sensing effects and the antagonistic rhizosphere bacterium. Huh. So she's into some microbiome interplay. Plants alter microbial abundance and diversity within the well-built environment. so um so he i guess she talks about uh endophytes here in german um and and i can read her
30:32 translations here so he suggested this video here which we're not going to watch right now but i'm going to link that right here right now for you guys as well you know can watch this later for next week maybe um get deeper on these endophytes that that was a uh let's see here yeah yeah that was a that was a pretty wild conversation on the endophytes the other day i think uh you know they blew my mind talking with steve on the endophytes finding out about all those things um okay she says that the microbiome inside the plants is not
31:16 harmed by the acid in our stomachs. And so we regenerate our own gut microbiome by eating fresh vegetables. So we're getting, I think what he's saying here is that we're getting the endophytes coming out of the plants into our guts. I think this is an interesting argument against high-speed plant juicers and too much chewing because both causes the cells to get broken and everything exposed to the acid. So not blending things so much with a juicer. Interesting. I mean, I guess with also the plant juice, right? You don't ever want to blend it.
32:04 same idea. You don't want to have those plant juices come out and get exposed without the sugar content being there, the liquid to pull it out. So he says 50% of the plant's microbiome comes from its seed. The other half comes from the environment. The consequence is that in order to do some good for our guts, we not only eat certain fermented food, but also a lot of different seeds so he's saying that um this is an interesting thing of research that in the seeds themselves would be these endophytes these different microorganisms that would
32:44 be in the seeds to help you out that's um it's worth worthwhile studying and seeing this this endophytic um seed relationship um and and he said he's made some experiences with the solutions with fish, eggshells and JMS and he bought the ingredients for making the medicine which he'll start prepping next week, cool yeah man, good good to do the whole KNF medicine recipe one day you'll have gallons of it.
33:34 There's absolutely nothing available in German, so I guess it is up to me to write some basic articles in course of time to spread the word. Yeah, thanks. Thanks for the precious work. Yeah, man, Solar Gourmet is definitely by far our... Let's see, what am I going to do? I'll go back to this one. I would say Solar Gourmet is our in-house German ambassador, for sure um out there understanding and linking us up here with this um with gabrielle berg from the technical university of graz in austria um and she spoke about plant microbiome which has
34:16 been her field of research for 20 years and here here i am thinking like whoa this is a brand new idea and someone's been studying this for 20 years already like imagine i've been studying knf for 20 years right and so it's like 20 years or she's been into these um the microbiome wild she's like maybe she's the elaine ingham of um foster um so anyway yeah good good to hear from fans good to um and to tune back into that endophyte conversation. Anyone else have any other ideas? Endophytes, the microorganisms that live perhaps
35:00 in the fermented plant juices? I think there might have been another email too on the endophytes. Cinefait's got a lot of comments. Not always does new things get a whole bunch of comments. No, that was definitely just that one. Let's see. Oh, did anyone check out Harriet? Check out Harriet Mella? Yeah. I listened to part of her podcast, actually. I listened to it while I was going up to up up yeah she's talking about
35:49 biodynamic rhythms and these things and you know what actually so I did listen to majority of this let me I'll link this one in the in the in the let me just copy this link I'll link this in the chat too so but so this one this one here i was listening to her and she she talks like immediately she's like yeah i do korea like she's like she talks about something and she's like yeah and i found master cho and then she goes and proceeds to talk about a whole bunch of other stuff and i didn't listen to the whole thing i'm not gonna lie um the um it's at a certain point it it cut out i'm
36:31 not sure it's technical difficulties more than i just i then i turned it off although it is quite lengthy but um but when i listened to her i i she said some stuff about knf and she said something some stuff about master cho and then she just like trailed off and i was like wait what how the heck can you um how can you talk you know like she she just like casually mentions master cho so uh Chris, you listened to Harriet Mella. What did she say? It says, Harriet's findings on biophotonics and dark septate endophytes
37:17 and her explanation of their impact on plant health, building stable humic substances during the winter months with the assistance of specific fungal groups. Harriet Mella's new online course Carbon Microcycling explores the connection between carbon and soil fertility signed up at Kind Harvest today I mean it's an advertisement they're selling what $295 with two months of membership I mean I guess freedom ain't free right there's 99 other people enrolled it's 377 with a one year membership
38:04 what is that less with a two month membership I don't understand that their pricing doesn't make sense to me but Cam has an honest review here that says I bought this course, not worth it to be honest yeah you know a lot of good stuff is on the internet and stuff behind paywalls it's good to know it's good to have it all condensed and like synthesized down and have it in an area where you can get it but that's why I do in-person trainings um yeah I mean that's why I put out most my you know office hours free like talk to me let's let's explore these but in-person trainings
38:48 because they're so invaluable in-person training is like no other and you kind of got to pay for that but but to go through an online membership i don't know maybe if it floats your boat yeah yeah okay so so maybe you listen to the same rest or the same podcast chris because it says she just stated something along the lines of and then i found master cho and mentioned Korean natural farming a time or two, right? There's a time limit too for the info, which is ridiculous for the price. Oh, so I'd have to like, listen to it all. Do it right away.
39:34 Huh? Anyway, I know she has some free videos out there too. Harriet and Mella. I listened, I mean, at least I listened to that podcast of hers. It's pretty good. yeah so um okay harriet miller so you see she seems she knows what uh includes all of her husson's work understanding redoxes so she mentions these other folks she looks nice she has like little drawings of Buddha dudes
40:25 that's cool hmm anyway what a wild person to research here so Gabriella Berg here we'll listen to that later find out more about endophytes everlasting quest to learn more about Korean natural farming and try not to get hosed on different material and then let's see here
41:12 the other things here let's do this one this is the discussion of soil analysis that we touched on before and why it's incorrect updating soil analysis to consider microbial influences with Rick Haney. Okay, so here I'll copy this podcast, put this into here as well. So Rick Haney is a renowned researcher, creator of the Haney soil analysis. Cool, creative man. an innovative extraction procedure to access overall soil health and plant mineral availability
42:03 today john sits down with rick to hear his story and discuss the future of agriculture centered around agronomics realities and biological processes throughout that okay uh he's he made a soil health improvement okay oh man this guy sounds very sciencey he's probably cool so if you're into a sciencey guy rick here's your guy and there's one other one here this is rhizophagy we looked up rhizophagy the other day it's like a root plant um fungal
42:49 interfaces, right? The rhizophage. Wow. In this episode of the Regenerative Agriculture podcast, John Kemp interviews plant biologist Dr. James White of Rutgers University, whose work provides with a new perspective on plant pathology, susceptibility, and soil-borne pathogens in plant absorption of nutrients. Dr. White explains explains how endophytes, non-pathogenic fungal and bacteria organisms present in all plants are a mechanism by which plants can absorb complete molecules, internalize and propagate
43:30 soil microbiomes, and nullify pathogenic organisms. Wow, okay. I mean, what else do you need to know? I gotta try to read that as enthusiastically as possible. so the root phase so this seems like this is kind of like the science of natural farming behind it all right the rhizophagy did I copy this one in there I don't know anyway and then he has this link Regen ag doesn't work.
44:18 This link doesn't work. So... yeah well it's it's fun it's fun these days to research um you know each of each of us here um i don't know how many of you folks out there listen to the podcast on just you know excuse me on an audible form. But, you know, if you're here live, that's awesome. That's really cool, too. But, you know, out and about in the garden, just doing this research to find out this
45:07 information. Is it relevant? I don't know. Understanding how KNF actually works. Is that important? I think, I mean, it seems important, but is it really important? Like, we just know KNF works, right? Do we have to be all like John Kemp style, like knowing? I mean, I'm glad for John Kemp. I, you know, I'm glad he likes to understand things and know things. But does it, you know, in the end of the day, at the end of the day, is it help us be a better farmer? Is it just, you know, frequent application? What, what makes you, what takes these, these recipes from this
45:52 man for master Cho and makes you the best at doing it? Is it the application? Is it some hybrid approach? Is it your knowledge and depth of understanding of all these other practices? Is it, is it knowing your machine really well? Is it knowing your animals, knowing your place, knowing your water, knowing your seeds, you know, like, or is it everything combined that makes you one of the best natural farmers you know like you know there's so i mean there's so much to being like a good good farmer a good caretaker and uh john kempf is a fantastic free source of
46:32 information philosophically just like me i don't know if we're exactly the same he's amish i'm i I'm still on my rum spring. He was in the microscope. Have taken my CanEF to another level because I can finally see what I'm working with and quality. You know, we were talking about that, and someone was talking about, it was Hawkeye, he was talking about the microscope, and he was saying that, yeah I don't know if this is the one anyway he was talking about
47:20 Matt Matt Powers talking about I'll just show that over there he's talking about Matt Powers microscope and then you know I think this is his book but he was talking about regenerative soil i don't want to copyright any of that but um but somehow he was talking about um soil microscope so if you you know you need to get a yeah good microscope all those things uh understanding um all these things um make a lot of sense um knowing you know just what's what's out there because you're
48:06 growing it and you're putting it in and you're doing it. Yeah. And truth is always on multiple levels, right? Science only gives us an approximation of nature at any given point. Science is only ever a slice of nature. The best approximation, you know, nature is some like infinite fractal that we somehow cast integers over. Try and say it's this or that with measure and it's not exactly how it works so anyway anything else here for today's office hours what do we got um i know just looking at all those other things that we had here
48:58 my microscope i you know i haven't really been using my microscope too much recently having one to know what's there, what's doing with it, but scoping all the time, checking it, I just haven't used it that much. And yeah, I use it when we have classes sometimes, but even last class we didn't get it out. We were too busy doing the other solutions, doing other things. um oh okay let's see here what so um um
49:49 what else is going on natural farming wise well you know the other thing I did want to do it's not you know I mean all in all when I was looking at my farm earlier I mean I kind of still wanted to look at that see a little bit like here you know looking looking here at the whole bit of the farm all these different you know snap snap points in time where, you know, this year looking at the bananas here coming through, because this
50:37 actually wasn't January, I believe this, even though it says it's January, I don't think it was, but seeing like, was there any improvement or did they just stay the same? That's what I've been asking myself. Looks like there's some, the bananas are getting some better. I don't know. I mean, here at one point, they look like really lush. It's mid-summer, I guess. Right now, they're doing okay. I mean, December, it's, you know, I guess right now, December, January is heading into winter. It's like it's worse time for it. But, beginning of the year versus end of the year.
51:26 Looks like almost the same. I mean, I guess that's good not to be moving backwards. And then this pasture here is another place of point of interest to looking at. You know, beginning of the year, this pasture, we've been grazing Julie since January here on this pasture. You can see all the fish amendments we've been dropping out there. um then over the year as that pasture progresses the spots come in where all the fish was dropped grows nice and well and then you know she's continuing to graze around and around in that circle
52:09 are we making improvement i think so is it pigs out there this is daryl and fudge or yeah not fudge anymore but anyway so yeah i don't know if that improved at all what do you think pasture improved be graded improved it's so funny it's like here's the same, like I'm adding the same fish thing out there, the same fish, like I'm adding more fish out there, making it even more fertile. Let's see. This pasture. I think it's improved, that one,
52:58 for sure. Well, let's also, let's look at my neighbor's fence line right here. So, the beginning of the year kind of roughed up and then eventually it gets better he stopped grazing as hard the middle pasture this pasture has been very hard it's very full of of elephant grass so it's very hard for me to knock it down but they are moving through I mean at one point they really knocked it back here in August
53:44 now I'm having them knock it back again it grew back was that October they knocked it back again November so I'm just knocking that pasture back then what else yeah that's I mean been working on all these pastures, improving these. My house has been pretty static as well. I mean, here it is in the beginning of the year. Here it is at the end of the year. You know, sugarcane growing static. Been selling that well. Bananas tea. You know, just pretty static. These bananas still doing well, doing well.
54:31 so anyway interesting always to look over this kind of format and a year you know here in the beginning you know big sugar down here um bananas tea leaves but yeah pretty pretty same you know grazing through here makes a whole lot of sense it's I think it's worked well this year. Drone safe right there. Yeah, well, anyway, that's, I don't know. I guess I just keep sharing that because I'm like, oh, well, I wanted to go over this.
55:16 And since it's here, that's what we'll share with today. cool well um i you know drop i dropped a few podcasts in there hopefully i'll be able to check them out this week hopefully you'll be able to check them out this week hopefully we'll be getting a little bit into that of uh you know what we can learn together, what we can share with each other. Thanks, you know, thanks for sharing with me here, Natural Farming. Thanks to Master Cho. Thanks to Pure K&F Foundation. Thank you to K&F Support. And I want to appreciate you guys for tuning in. All, you know, everything
56:04 out there, all you do, all the love all around the world. Thank you for making the world a better place and um i will catch you guys next week shoots