Bacterial Wilt on Kale, Gator Sprayer Setup, IMO Ammonia Fix
Fresh back from teaching on Maui, Drake covers a farm consult where kale had bacterial wilt. His fix: vinegar for leaf waxiness, lactic acid bacteria to fight the bacteria, and calcium to harden leaves against cabbage moth caterpillars. He also pitches a $500 gator setup with a 25-gallon tank so a whole farm can be sprayed and cleaned up in under an hour.
A viewer's question about differences between the app, the printed guide, and Master Cho's original Korean nutrient cycle documents leads Drake to admit Cho's own literature is inconsistent across time and translation. He pulls out Cho's original crop charts for pear and apple, peach, pepper, and rice, showing how nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, and calcium needs shift through the season for each crop.
George asks about an IMO pile that smells like ammonia heading into IM04 and hasn't passed 45°C. Drake says ammonia means the pile went anaerobic, tells him to keep turning it, and recommends blending in 10 to 20 percent wood chips or biochar to add carbon and slow it down.
Drake closes with Master Cho's natural farming methodology: no pesticides, no herbicides (glyphosate started life as a boiler descaler), no tilling, no chemical fertilizers, pollution-free livestock barns with no artificial heating, and locally made feed. He ends with a piglet update, including one lost to a UTI after a first-time castration.
Questions answered
- 11:38 How do you treat bacterial wilt on kale? — Spray vinegar for leaf waxiness, lactic acid bacteria to fight the bacteria, and calcium to harden leaves against cabbage moth caterpillars.
- 13:31 What sprayer setup covers a whole farm fast? — A gator with a 25-gallon tank and power sprayer lets you mix, spray, and clean up an entire farm in under an hour for about $500.
- 18:59 Is right after the full moon a good time to gather FPJ material? — Yes, that window is called the Laude, the perfect time in the morning to gather medicine.
- 20:50 What helps with slugs? — Put out more IMO and fungus to mitigate slugs, plus chemical controls, seawater, and salts.
- 21:17 Why do the app, the book, and Master Cho's documents show different dilution rates? — Even Master Cho's own literature changed over time and in translation, so treat the ratios and formulas as guidelines, not fixed law.
- 31:33 Does the nutrient cycle timing change by crop? — Yes, Master Cho's charts show different growth stages and shifting NPK and calcium needs for pear-apple, peach, pepper, and rice.
- 52:07 George's IMO pile smells like ammonia going into IM04 and hasn't passed 45°C, what's wrong? — Ammonia means the pile went anaerobic; keep turning it, and the material may be too rich in starch and need more carbon.
- 57:52 How much wood chips or biochar should be added to fix that pile? — About 10 to 20 percent of the pile by volume, blended in even after the fact.
- 58:46 Why does natural farming avoid herbicides entirely? — Glyphosate was developed as a boiler descaler that strips minerals from whatever it touches, and cover crops and rotational mowing handle weeds instead.
- 1:15:39 What happened to the piglet that died? — A first-time castration led to a UTI, and it died despite three days of trying to nurse it back to health.
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In this episode
- 0:00 Count Down
- 4:19 Intro and Welcome
- 5:22 I Ching Reading: Fu, Return
- 7:40 Maui Teaching Trip Recap
- 11:38 Bacterial Wilt on Kale
- 13:31 Spraying Setup: Backpack vs Gator
- 15:35 Teaching KNF on Maui: FPJ and Cheap Microbes
- 19:33 Kudzu and Slugs
- 21:17 Dilution Rate Guidelines
- 31:33 Cho's Crop-Specific Documents
- 41:02 Master Cho Nutrient Cycle Videos and Age of Rocks
- 43:29 Free Cho Lecture Videos
- 45:05 Pure KNF Website and Community Platform
- 52:35 IMO Pile Ammonia and Temperature
- 55:52 Cho's Natural Farming Methodology Intro
- 56:36 No Pesticides
- 58:46 No Herbicides
- 1:02:37 No Tilling and No Chemical Fertilizer
- 1:06:09 Livestock Barns, No Heating, Local Feed
- 1:12:57 Piglets Update
Transcript
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4:30 so hey aloha welcome to office hours korean natural farming sponsored by the pure canna foundation here for may 7th 2023 um checking in with you guys from all over the world thanks for tuning in um appreciate you know spreading the korean natural farming here and around the world and
5:20 yeah all right so before we get into things um seek some higher wisdom it's always a good place to start everything. You may hear my hard drive in the background. I just got a second hard drive, so I'm mirroring RAID, about 12 terabytes of data passing through, going from one place to another. So that's that great sound keeping you company. I'm not sure how well that's coming through. I can hear it pretty good on my headphones. But let's start here. And today is Return, which is a time of darkness comes to a close receiving this hexagram is a sign that you
6:04 have reached a turning point this moment is akin to the winter solstice the greatest adversity is past and the light is beginning to return nonetheless one cannot force the completion of a change. And it is wise to rest. Act only when you can move gently and innocently and all will be well. Foo, which is also comes to remind, as a reminder to return to the light in yourself. Growth is only possible when we relinquish the expressions of the ego, which are pride, impatience, anger, and desire. To act forcefully or ambitiously now
7:00 will only generate misfortune. Let things develop naturally in their own way. Simply observe and accept the changes as you observe and accept the rising of the sun. Allow yourself time to rest and to gather strength for a time of growth ahead. By holding to modesty, gentleness, and correct conduct, you prepare the ground for a fruitful blossoming when the light fully returns. awesome yeah returning um i just returned back to the big island uh was on well i say just i i was
7:48 actually got back last sunday which is why i didn't do office hours last week um usually i try to make it every week but it was just too logistically challenging yesterday last week i I was on Maui teaching the Farm Apprentice Mentorship program over there and working with the Hawaii Farmers Union United. And Sarah and her great, great program called the Farm Apprentice Mentorship. She's been the farm, the fam coordinator for many years or two years, actually, two or three years. and yeah so she's been doing a great program so I got to go over to Maui College
8:35 last Thursday and teach there about 30 folks in the program or were there and taught for three hours I thought I thought I would go over the natural farming things in like a few you know like an hour and a half and then like leave questions open but I ended up spending three hours talking about the nine core solutions, natural farming, how it fits in the big picture, how all of this like melds together. And literally without a break, um, like talk for three hours, explaining these things, making jokes, you know, just, uh, you know, I kind of fancy myself as an
9:15 edutainer of sorts, like where, you know, like you can, you can educate, but you also got to make it entertaining, right? So, um, try my best to convey, you know, what is the essence of Korean natural farming? What are the, um, you know, the nine core solutions? How is that all fitting together? How do you put those into the prescriptions? How do you put this in? If you were brand new, cause I asked the audience, I'm like, who's familiar with Korean natural farming and two or three people raise their hand. And I was just like, Whoa, okay. So, um, start with the
9:47 basics, you know, make it, uh, make it simple. Um, try not to lose people because it's a huge topic, right? Korean natural farming, you start to get into it and you find it's almost like one of those grand unifying theories, right? It takes, you know, chemistry, biology, physics, um, spirituality, um, what else? Um, metaphysics, um, you know, raising a good family, integrating animals, learning life cycles of plants, learning how, you know, nature really works, all those things, like more, right? And there's way more complexity to natural farming,
10:23 and it brings all that together. And, you know, so I'm trying to convey that in like, you know, two, three hours, you know, or, you know, and to folks, and they loved it, they were really great. And then the next Friday, so I did that Thursday night, then Friday, I got to go up to the farm that we're going to work at the next day and basically had a great like private consultation with these folks um kanoa the farmer dan rudoy who went to master chose 2011 teacher training in big island um and sarah and and met their you know their farm folks up there and did a private
11:03 consult and it was amazing because they're primarily growing a lot of carrots and um and then they have these different things where they're trying like traditional high tillage, um, more, um, I don't know, more regenerative and then like full regenerative where they're actually letting like, you know, a full ground cover and not trying to till it and trying to like actually bring the soil to life. And it was interesting to walk through and to see the different, um, differences between them and then to see the different bugs and the things that were attacking things and
11:36 wasn't and um you know they were suffering from a fair amount of um bacterial wilt on their kales and i recommended to them hey you know um you know like in addition to like just applying the basics of natural farming and taking the basic um prescriptions of the formulations i was like hey you know you could really this this kale here particularly could really benefit from um vinegar lactic acid bacteria the vinegar because it would it would increase the waxiness and then then get rid of the um the the sites where this bacteria could get into the kale stems you know they had
12:18 kind of brown discoloration on them the um lactic acid bacteria because that would then be the protectors holding down the leaves and really you know fighting off that bacterias and just like you know, protecting the place. And then also some calciums, which would help to harden it up. And I also recommended the calciums because they had a lot of cabbage moths flying around and cabbage moth is a leaf sucker, leaf eater in its, you know, it's, it's larval stage. Like little caterpillars going to be eating your leaves. So if you're able to harden off your,
12:53 um your um leafy greens with calcium that way you would be able to prevent this bug the caterpillar from having an available food source and eating that and munching around and um doing its thing and then um yeah so and basically the main solution the main input they were putting onto their plants was um sea minerals so they were using a lot of i think they're actually buying like c90 or something i didn't i didn't ask specifically but um dan said they were primarily using a lot of sea minerals as their main fertility source and um you know i asked if
13:34 they were doing any imos or anything and they weren't really um they were doing um you know yeah so but good good regenerative practices that i saw but um just you know incorporating in the korean natural farming and i was like look you guys got a gator here if you get a little sprayer where um you know like my maruyama type thing where it's a power sprayer it's not you know because i asked them what sprayers they have and they said they have some backpack sprayers we walk around like with a backpack sprayer and like and they even had a battery operated one so
14:02 you don't have to pump it but i was like you know you gotta like if you got you invested you know 500 bucks and you get a decent sprayer where you're able to drive on this gator put a you know 25 gallon tank in the back and spray, you'll be able to cover your entire farm area from starting, you know, start mixing the solutions into the tank, drive, spray everything, and then clean up in less than an hour. And for their situation where they were growing like kales and lettuce for, for restaurants where they kind of make this solid mix, if they were able to
14:41 to, um, spray that twice a week, um, they would, they would just kick butt like everything. I, I believe, I mean, this is, this is my, like, my, my, like ideal, like, you know, supposition of like, I think that if they did that twice a week and they spray the gator and it took two hours a week to do this, which is not much time, then their, their whole production, everything would go up. They wouldn't have the pest problems. They wouldn't have the, um, the bacterial problems and I mean, this is just like my mind, like, like envisioning this, you know, it'd be actually,
15:16 it's interesting to see when the rubber meets the road and what it is, you know, but if they provide those solutions, they start practicing the natural farming and spraying. I think it would just, um, totally turn their operation around. They would have bigger, better, more marketable produce and, um, and have all that happening for them. So, um, so I love, I love going to places. I love seeing farms. I love doing that. And then the following day, Saturday, um, the class, the whole 30 30 or so folks came up and even more um 35 maybe folks came over from molokai and lanai
15:48 and we all met on maui out on the linea side up on the farm and um i taught them basically in three hours again we started with the fermented plant juice making cana food because uh you know the cana food where you ferment the plants and we chose um banana flowers um hono hono grass because they had a lot of that growing and then also this like thing they call potato weed i don't know but those were just the common things that were thriving there and we wanted you know so um in the banana flower i wanted to do because i knew it was going to render the most juice and we harvested it at
16:26 the most unideal time we harvested high noon so they didn't get that much juice right away just because the plants suck all that down into their root system when that's happening um and so um so you know but but we went over that and basically for about two and a half hours um we did plant juice and i got everyone engaged and got them to teach each other and i got to explain you know a little bit more natural farming how it goes the importance of farming and what we need to do um and then how to um you know bring um and then in the last 30 minutes i taught them
17:03 how to make extremely cheap microbes, the disgustingly cheap microbes. So some, some people will call it a damn microbe solution, but basically you're just putting starch and salt and microbe dirt and water. And I, and I had a batch that we made the prior day. And then I had the people that made it the prior day, teach them how to do it. So a lot of teaching opportunities, because the way to really remember things is if you teach, you remember like 90% of everything you learn. So I try to get, you know, when I'm teaching,
17:33 I try to get the other people to teach. I'll teach them a little bit and I'll say, okay, now you teach this to the other part of the group. Um, and that, that really helps to, to get it together. So, um, so that was, that was a ton of fun to be over there and yeah, Maui Lahaina Luna, what's up Rainbow Possum for being down there and doing it. Um, and the video is buffering. It says it's excellent connection here. So, um, I haven't lost any frames on my end.
17:59 So it's buffering for you. I am doing a bunch of stuff on my network, but I've only dropped like 1.1% of frames, 96 out of 11,000 something so far. So it's not buffering on my end. It should be just fine. um so um um yeah so so um so i did that you know maui was great um good to go over there um and then you know i definitely need to go over there and do a more in-depth class um and also i'm getting my classes together i'll be doing one um i think november and then january here so if you're interested um i'll be putting that up soon look forward to the next announcement office hours or
18:48 you can check knffarm.com but it's not up now so don't don't try to register right this moment um but but that um and good good to see all you guys you know here in the chat today we got uh rainbow possum farm what's up um we got cecily in western australia the goof man up in new york New Zealand Willie how's it Brenda Aroha Good day And Printer Bear just collected some FPJ this morning awesome Yeah right after the full moon it's the perfect time Those are called the Laudes where you gather Medicine perfect time in the morning Awesome in Connecticut That's awesome I'm curious what material
19:35 You use but I think maybe you said Kudzu vine here, which is a perfect one. Kudzu is a really good plant, or maybe that's crab grows is talking about the kudzu here. Yeah, kudzu is one of the things that Master Cho actually recommends. If you remember, we went over there, we're going over his presentation at the end of each of these office hours, and he talked about kudzu. They called it chocolate vine, but it was kudzu that he was talking about so that's awesome kia ora yeah life life of heaven to you too man kia ora um so um so what else um and then this week
20:23 also i talked um the goof man he's he's he's on it um and he was he emailed me a little bit about the differences in the app versus the guides and all these things. And we kind of had a little interesting chat here. So I'm going to share that with you guys. What's up, Czech Republic? First time. Yeah. If you got slugs, you're encouraging a lot of bacteria to happen. um so slugs um uh key is just to get more imos out there and eliminate get more fungus in there those will then mitigate your slugs there's also um you know chemical control methods to do
21:12 and also seawater and salts so um so anyway i i was chatting with um um roof man here he emailed me about the app. So I'm just going to show and share a little bit of these emails with you guys here. Let's see, get the right thing over here with that due to this. There we go. So he emailed me to say he was going over the app, you know, he's making a thing and he was double checking it. And here's my app here. And he highlighted the differences here on the app versus this guide in the book, right? And there's some differences. You know, I apologize for any mistakes that I've
21:56 introduced or anything like that. But he was pointing out that there was differences here. And so differences here, right? Kind of interesting. And so what I sent to him was actually like, you know, the thing that I have for Master Cho, right? So this is when I went to Master Cho's nutrient cycle, advanced training. This was the guide and document he gave to us. Okay. So here it is. Yeah. And I don't know if you can read it. It's a little bit, you know, it's hard to read a little bit here. Zoom in a bit here, make it a little bit bigger.
22:34 But basically these, and I'm just like, it's all in Korean, but I'm translating here, like, you know, OHN 1 to 1000. This is his type four seed, um, uh, seed formula. And, you know, there's a lot of, there's a lot lost in translation and trying to translate it across, but, you know, you get the basic idea here of like, this is what master chose formulas are. So like, you know, like this would be your, your vegetative, um, chubby formula. This would be your chain crossover, um, flower formula. This would be your maturing. Oh, you know what? I got to turn on my mouse.
23:09 thing make it better where is it it's not up there it went away i used to have this nice thing to turn on the mouse well anyway hopefully you can see my mouse um and type three you know um uh fruiting formula but this is actually like a cute uh anyway you know the lost in translation and the ripening formula so soil seed um you know all these correspond across but there's it's hard to translate this stuff because it's not even, um, anyway, so this is the ultimate like source of truth that I have, um, of what master Cho gave to us. And then, um, he was nice enough to, um,
23:52 go through and then he looked at this and then sent me back this email here where, um, he went through and, you know, um, you know, he's talking about natural mineral a through D, which are proprietary mineral formulas that Master Cho has that aren't open source or readily available. And they're not, they're not rock dust blends. They're actually like liquids. But he uses some type of machine to make these things. And when he talks about it, he always recites the biblical verse where, where Moses is in the desert and he strikes the rock and makes water come out of it.
24:32 And that's what he always cites when he talks about these things here for the natural minerals, somehow he's able to get it. My theory is that you make the male and the female rocks make love and then the love juice goes into the water. I don't know exactly how it works. Maybe you strike him a bit. I don't know. I'm not sure how he does this. Some people claim to know, but I don't think they really know what he's doing. And you can also run it through a BMW type thing, which I covered, you know, in past office hours. So, you know, you can look those up as well.
25:08 And so he's talking about, you know, the plant juice, these other things. But then he highlighted these differences here, which I'm not exactly sure. He is in the chat, so maybe clarify this. But, you know, here's compared to nature's cycle chart, which I'm not sure which the nature's cycle chart. Maybe that was the original Master Cho book or the document I sent him was that. So these look like these two are subtracted out and then these are added in here where it actually adds in some reproduction here and some cleanser here and changes the plant juice from 1 to 500 to 1 to 1,000.
25:53 So I think that's what he's talking about. Yeah, so Nature's cycle chart is the OG one, he's saying. So the document I sent to him, Master Cho's document, all in Korean. So he's saying that these are subtracted out and then these are added in compared to my chart here, right? Then comparing to Cho's book, which I think is... Which one is Cho's book? oh the second book that um that he got from master cho uh and i sent him a book um on this so comparing to master cho's book it's then adding in you know fuel here and um there and adding or
26:40 adding in reproduction there when the seed treatment and then reproduction or excuse me minerals here and then it's subtracting out these um from the recipe right so that's um that's master cho's book which is an older book and then again cho's cycle chart i don't know which one is the cho's cycle chart here um but then on this one it's it's adding in uh fuel and um protectors to to these two recipes, uh, subtracting out these. So even in master chose, um, own literature, it looks to me like there's inconsistencies there as well. Um, and so it, this is kind of an
27:26 interesting thing. Like what is the pure source of truth? What is, what is, um, you know, what is the best um um you know um you know like am i doing you know perfect knf pure knf am i following the formulas to the t am i doing this and that's why when i when i go to teach natural farming i say that look these here these are guidelines because even in master cho's own literature there's changes between them like over time over whatever over translation over these things basically what i'm trying to get at is that these are a guideline right so if you're coming across
28:06 you're making the maintenance you're including food cleanser medicine and structure because those are maslow's rules right you need you need to eat you need to be clean and clean up the waste you need to you know crap you need to be healthy so you need medicine you need a roof over your head you need structure and so i bring it down to like this philosophical like a sixth grader can understand of like understanding these concepts and then being like, look, ultimately you're the master of this, right? Like these are suggestions. These are guidelines. These are things that get
28:36 you like on the right track. But then just like I was talking just a bit ago when I was consulting with, um, that farm, I'm saying, you know, you really need vinegar, uh, the protectors, you know, cleanser protectors and, um, and reproduction on these. Right. And it's cause I understand fundamentally how these solutions work and what they do in their individuality but then i also understand that you know in certain combinations they work synergistically with each other and they can cause even better things to happen like for instance if you're using minerals you get even
29:10 more absorption if you're including some reproduction here so the water soluble calcium because the calcium moves the things through the plant it's the transporter it's like you know reproduction is one name for it, but it's also the transporter. You know, I could call it KNF transportation, you know, because it moves minerals through and it moves things to where you need them, right? And so even in my own translation of trying to take these things, I'm trying to like pin it down to one word, right? But conceptually, if you know what the individual solutions do,
29:43 you'll understand how these formulations work. And it's really you know there's differences in it there's there's a lot of differences in how these things are used and what they're used and what you're formulating for and even like you look at master Cho he's not necessarily that consistent through this and so it's hard to know like what you know what's really going on but that's why I teach like when I teach natural farming you come here I get this like depth of understanding to people that I'm like you got to understand them in their individuality
30:17 then you got to understand them together. And then you got to understand how all this fits and then what, what, what's the point and the purpose, because then you can customize your own methods. And I think one other thing that's worth sharing here, and thanks goof, man, this is fricking awesome. This is like, so cool that you, you dive deep and that you try to understand this. Um, because, um, in, in, in, yeah, to like really understand what the heck's going on, you know, like when things are sick, reduce the food, you know, if you have a deep understanding
30:49 of what the things mean, um, it's, it's like, it's even better, but I want to share one other, um, one other thing that I got going on here. Let me see where the heck did it go? Cause I just pulled it up here of yeah, here. So let me, let me see if I can rip this tab over here I can okay hang on then I'm gonna shrink it down here and get rid of that and bring this over here a little bit right like that and let me show you this I'll bring this back on the screen so this here this is my document folder here which I which I also share with um with my students
31:32 when they come here because i don't necessarily give all this stuff away of just like you know you gotta gotta be ready for it and like learn and get into it but these here when i went to master cho's nutrient cycle advanced theory stuff he's including all these documents which like for instance this here is i believe how to do a pear and an apple so this is like some orchard type of growing here of when you're doing an orchard you're doing a pear and an apple like those are just the examples he picked but this would be you know fruit trees like like a lychee
32:12 or you know i mean i don't know what pear and apple is probably pretty um ubiquitous around the world um you know mango trees uh lychee's longan you know um whatever fruiting avocados whatever fruit tree you have this is pretty much your guide for this and it's understanding like you know here here in hawaii we don't have the same seasons but here it's like january february march april like the timeline going across all the way to december so you get a full year out of this so what you're looking at and then you understand like here january february i don't even know what that
32:46 says there i think i gotta actually look at my original documents this thing's kind of blurry even for me. Um, but it's coming in. Then the thing is starting to flower. You're getting growth here, your first part of the year. Um, you know, and the thing is super, it's active from here to there. And then it starts flowering right about here, right? So you're getting, you're getting growth, accumulative growth, getting, you know, things coming in, leaves developing, coming in. And, um, I think it's hibernating in this point. Um, but the, but the sap is rising,
33:18 you know flow rises it says you know flow rises so the staps rising at this point and then it starts to put out leaves this point in its life then it flowers right here and then you have this um what is this differentiating growth i think and then here you're getting the fruit to kind of develop but it will actually you're probably harvesting fruit i don't know anyway i'm trying of like just on the fly go over this but it's hey what's up george um but but here um coming in and then it goes back into a dormant period so all this is actually explained really you know master
33:55 cho going over this in my um on my youtube channel you can look it up it's i think it's called um nutrient cycle like basic nutrient cycle class but he's going through you know type four type four type four three three two two three or three two three you know and and so all this relates back to what you know his other charts and how all these things fit together of like what kind of growth you're doing where um and then you know it says the the requirements of the npk calcium you know in the beginning it needs nitrogen like from here to here from basically um you know
34:31 March to June, it needs high nitrogen, high potassium, um, or in low phosphorus, low calcium. And then again, he goes, you know, the nitrogen gets lower. Um, your, um, uh, potassium comes up, um, what is that? Medium. Your phosphorus goes high and your calcium becomes, um, medium. And then here, you know, nitrogen is low, you know, in your final harvest coming into harvest, you're going to be low nitrogen, medium, medium, high calcium. So your calcium gets high towards the end because you want to transport all those nutrients in your fruit.
35:14 And then here I translated all these things of like, what are those solutions and how are those things coming together? But it's hard to read even for me here of I can't really I'm looking at this and it's blurry and stuff. But I do have these original documents in a folder somewhere. This is just a scan. And I guess I didn't scan it at high enough resolution for me to be able to read here. But this is like, you know, when you get into nutrient cycle, you get into these things. That's that. I mean, that's for pear and apple, right? And then this one here is for a peach.
35:48 So actually, a peach has a different stage, according to Master Cho, than a pear and an apple, right? And it's like, what's the difference? Well, you got to look and really understand this. And then what else does he have here? I think this one is rice. Oh, this one's a pepper. So if you're going to grow a pepper, you know, here's the nutrient cycle for that and things changing. So when I talk about nutrient cycle, there's like, you know, there's so much subtlety coming from Master Cho. And this is like measuring the amount of leaves you have.
36:18 When there's two to three leaves, you're doing this. Five to six, you're doing this. Then you got, you know, six to eight, 11 to 15. Like, you know, like, and then the peppers are coming out and like, this is the guide for growing peppers. Right. And then what else do we got here? This one is a rice crop or 180 day crop in general. Right. So if you have like a tarot or a, you know, I think a tarot is like 270 days, but, you know, 180 day crop here, what you're doing, you know, you got, got all these coming out. You know, so nutrition cycle changes. What else we got here?
36:59 It looks like these are just the original Korean documents without me writing translations all over them. And kind of making them more blurry with my translations. But these are the original Korean documents there. And then what is this here? It looks like the, you know, big scan of that one. And then here's, you know, all this. these look like just the original documents before I wrote on them. Um, and then again, again, here's like my notes from all this, right? Like I took, this was in 2017, the advanced
37:35 training there, you know, and I took, I took my own, a bunch of personal notes on this of, you know, I'm just, I basically just wrote down everything master Cho was saying, uh, as he was thing better than science suck it mfs master cho he loves to talk crap and that was just the first day this was day two here coming in you know i'm scrolling by fast to kind of blur it on purpose because if you want all this you know should probably make it a little bit more um but when he starts talking about the leaves type 2 type 3 type 4 these are different types of leaf growth
38:09 and this was a picture he drew where type 2 leaves are coming out they kind of get this roundish shape to them. Type 3 leaves get these triangles. They come out in the summer. And then type 4 growth is these round leaves that come out in the fall. So he's actually looking, you know, the type 2, type 3, type 4, the types of growth stages, these types of things you're doing. The leaves actually change shape. And if you really tune into farming, you'll see that, you know, the shapes of your leaves and things are changing. You really get deep into that,
38:40 to finding all this out. So I just kind of show you this as a preview right now. I didn't really want to dive too deep into that. Um, but, um, yeah. So anyway, there's a lot, there's a lot to it. So when I'm trying to like explain natural farming in like three hours or like a session or whatever, it's like, man, there's a whole lot to it. And more that I've learned more than I need to go back and review and really rewatch my videos because each time I do and watch master Cho's stuff, I get even more out of it, right? It's like an onion. It's like more layers, more
39:12 layers, peeling it away, finding out, you know, what's, what's good, what's great. What did I miss? What am I just like, you know, making my own errors, making, um, you know, and I'm trying to get the most accurate information out there, but like master Cho there, he's the man, he knows what's up and he learned this, um, you know, through books, through, um, studying with, um, you know uh you know other people and other things you know so he's um you know it's all it's all coming around of what he's trying to to understand so um so yeah so um a little bit um yeah so
39:57 um yeah and it's just an evolution we learn more you know master choi says natural farming is kind of unfinished going through to teach us. But that's actually one of the reasons I'm backing up these hard drives right now, because I actually have all this information out there. And then if I look here, let me go just quickly here to my channel. And I'm been trying to so so let me just bring this over because this is, you know, my channel. There's me live right now. May 7th. 22 of you guys watching. Share, spread, subscribe, get more
40:35 folks onto this. I don't know why, you know, more people tune in, see these things actually live, going deep into natural farming. I appreciate you guys because you're learning about it. But as I scroll down here, it's like, you know, these complete online courses. So there's my certification class, super popular, but natural farming by Master Cho and then, you know, Lane Ingham and the basics by Young Song Cho. But here, under this basic natural farming course, the complete thing. The lecture that I was talking about is actually this right here.
41:11 So those documents I was pulling up are right here, excuse me, under this basic nutrient cycle course. So if I open that in a new tab, don't lie if my tabs are open, but here's Master Cho. Oh yeah, doing this. And then all the advertisements I made for it and everything and getting people pumped on this but you can learn directly from the man himself here you know talking about what we're doing kim chang rest her soul bless her peace and i hope she's resting in peace but um here we are you know going through i filmed this whole thing and he's talking about it in real time
41:52 talking about these things so if you don't you know don't just trust me go look for the original source, go find these things, go look through, you know, um, this is, you know, first one was an hour 49 and three hours, 53, two hours, 44, 29 minutes, three hours, 18, two hours, 28, you know, and part of this, I actually even missed part of this, um, um, what you call, um, lecture because I actually had, you know, I was running administration for this and I had to be down there printing out, um, those handouts that I showed you. And then what was nice about this too,
42:27 is that I got because I was helping the um you know run the event I got to spend time with Master Cho after hours and when I sit one-on-one with him he downloads you with way more information and one of these nights he was talking about the the the age of rocks and how rocks go from black to like red to orange to like almost faded away and he was talking about you know if you're on red dirt you really don't the rocks are already used like the black new rock that's lava that comes out is super rich full of nutrients but then by the time it gets red and orange you're not
43:00 having the same amount of nutrients come out of your rock and so you know you really need to revitalize with seawater and you know it's just amazing talking to you know learning straight with him you know i mean obviously through a translator but um but you know he downloads me with some stuff which i take notes diligently when doing all that and i have my notebooks and all that so that's how I learned to try to convey this to you and get this out. Um, but, um, and then here, you know, it's, it's classic here on the thing. It's like, thank you, Drake. This is truly a
43:34 contribution to the betterment of mankind. And thanks for that. You know, I'm really trying to get these things out. Um, you know, and thanks Drake for, you know, without, without them, people like me from so far away, couldn't participate one day. I hope to be there in person, you know, Cheech Chong, you know, and nature to me is the cycle of life. And, you know, thanks. So some people, you know, but, but again, I look at this and it's only like, it's five years ago, this was published and there's only 1.6,000 views on it.
44:06 So, you know, it's kind of funny. Like I put this information out, it's here. It's like, you can go learn directly from Master Cho, but very few people take that opportunity to do it. So if you're one of those people that really wants to dive deep, you know, this is, it's free. It's on the YouTube. I mean, it's as free as, um, you know, Google's obviously sucking your soul out of you and stealing all your information, all your data. Um, but that's that exchange. If you're willing to exchange that, um, you're, you know, you're able
44:33 to, um, get, um, you know, this information and, um, you know, learn directly that way. Um, so do that while it's still, um, you know, you know, before CBDCs and they take all this stuff away from you and you're banned from the internet for you know censorship or whatever it's all coming but um but keep keep things positive keep on the good things of you know tune in uh check in these things my my channel i put the direct raw content up there so you can see it i really try to share that um other things in that i wanted to get to um just kind of briefly before i get into um
45:11 the master chose presentation is that again i just wanted to pull up the pure knf.org on the pure knf foundation we've been really working hard this year we're a small team and we're slow but we're diligent and we're persistent and so pure knf foundation we've been doing a lot of good behind the scenes and i was telling someone the other day it's like microbial growth and spreading natural farming is exponential. So in the beginning, it seems like nothing's happening. Nothing's happening. Nothing's happening. Nothing's happening. But a lot's happening.
45:48 And it's doubling, it's doubling, it's doubling. And then all of a sudden, we're now starting to get into the exponential point of this. And now it's just growing like crazy. Like, you know, that time period is only a tiny bit and it's just doubling. It's just the curve starting to get steeper. So thanks for your patience. Thanks for your persistent, even though there's only like, you know, a few people tuned in here, which I appreciate you. I'm not saying, but it's like, it's that small. We're still in the first exponential bit of this going.
46:14 And then the curve is going to get steeper and people are going to grow. And what does it take? It takes things like can of support here, which is something we offer, which is a question answer platform where, um, tons and tons of questions have been answered. You know, obviously I need to answer this one here. Um, but one week ago and the goof man has been holding it down here. He's really been so helpful answering all the questions and really there. But, you know, we offer knfsupport.com. It's linked from PureKNF, but knfsupport.com is a PureKNF project.
46:47 And then I also wanted to show you guys this, which is something I've been working on. And it's in building a community. So my whole goal is to get people off the Facebook because it's junk, it's trash, things go away. and actually offering a full-on community where we have groups, where we have these different topics that we can discuss. And this is just kind of wanted to get a little feedback from you guys of, you know, what kind of groups do you want to see before I go full bore into this? And then we're also working on how to, for a small cost, because I got to avoid the bots. And also it
47:25 makes sense that if you getting value from this, you pay some value to help the foundation actually, because we're going we're above our budget this year to do projects like this and so if we can get um our membership going for the right uh right um you know financial flow then we can really dig deep into these projects and make these happen but just a little preview of what we got going like basically here you can see you know i'm just you know i have an admin account my personal account and then suze and we're just you know as the pure canna foundation we're just getting this going
47:58 but it gives you kind of like a little um you know profile where you can kind of talk about yourself a stream of what you're up to similar very similar to facebook um if you go back to the members you know you can see sue's actually filled out a little bit more about her self here and then your farm information like where you're farming and then ways to reach each other here so this will be um you know behind a membership thing so that we can kind of get into this but it'll really give us a way to, you know, connect with each other. And as I've been saying, I've been trying
48:30 to get the map up and getting this implemented. And now it gives us this user map here, which I got to rename it from user map because that's actually what I'm working on is the translation and all this, because then we'll be able to see each other on a map. And then, you know, click here. We're the only two people in here right now, but you can look, you can see Sue's right here, click on her you can find myself here right i put my po box so it put me over there she put our actual home address which luckily didn't put it right where we live um but it's close enough um
49:03 but you can then find people around you and then click on them and be like oh this person's right near me what's about them and find out about them right and find out who and what's going on and then this will help find uh find each other and spread and with the right thing so i'm looking for a little bit of feedback if you want to help this you want to be part of this um you know i gotta obviously like right now it's like it's kind of empty and it's hard to like you know it's like you arrive first at the party it's hard you know it's like is anyone else coming you know like but
49:33 i do want to get this rolling with folks and get it so that we can start to fill this out and then integrate it in with knf support so that i'm not running two distinct platforms but we can bring that into here. We can talk to each other. We have groups. We can be like, you know, and I thought, you know, what groups do we need? I was like climate restoration, number one, right? A global community chat. So we can all talk to each other, just like, you know, random chat. Then we can have a learning center so that people can put it in there for the basics.
50:03 And then basically the advanced topics would be broken out, like, you know, livestock or pest and disease management and, um, you know, other things I was thinking like orchards or, um, you know, like market gardening, um, you know, how to apply those. So this is up, you know, it's at community.peercanf.org. Um, you, you will not be able to register right now, um, because it's closed and I got to actually get it so that, you know, I actually got to charge you a little bit of money to get into this because then I can eliminate the bots because I just dealt with a
50:35 huge thing of russian bots and attacking my other servers and all this and i really you know need that not to happen so i'm hoping that this can happen and then maybe even have a video section where we can you know and tutorials and whatever you know but um but wanting to do that so this is in progress we're just working on getting the um you know our membership together and getting that so we're all good and there'll be a calendar too so we can share events coming up because there's a bunch of things happening in the KNF community, different people offering courses and things.
51:09 And so hoping that this will facilitate more connection, more, you know, mycelial going out more, you know, help this grow more exponentially, right? Because once we know and we communicate with each other, it gets better that way. So anyway, look forward to that. But, you know, Pure KNF Foundation, you want to help out. They've been helping, you know, me, but, you know, it's a nonprofit. You can make a tax deductible donation if you want to see these things happen. And then we'll also be offering membership. So like quid pro quo, you give us something,
51:39 we give you something back and make all that happen. So anyway, I wanted to update you guys on that because you're here and you guys are the people that probably are the most interested and want to connect as a community. I love how in the chat you guys are just like, you know, sharing with each other and really like, it's so cool to see this community we've built, a seed exchange. That'd be an interesting idea, you know. Um, so looking forward to that, um, making that happen, working on that, um, just let you know there's stuff happening. It's,
52:13 it's behind the background and it's, you know, it's happening. Um, and then, um, I want to take the last, um, you know, a little bit of this time here, um, just to, um, get into this um um and um so there's a question from george here he's asking about his im03 he says the change hasn't the smell hasn't changed from bread breaking to forest floor and he's going into im04 smells a bit of ammonia haven't gone over 45 degrees celsius just make sure you're turning it if you're smelling ammonia that's a sign that things
52:59 are getting anaerobic and somehow the microbes underneath are getting anaerobic and when they get anaerobic instead of fermenting and releasing co2 they actually start to like putrefy and release nitrogen so your nitrogen is burning off into that atmosphere so that means that microbes are being eaten like where's the nitrogen coming from it's actually the low temperature microbes are being eaten by these anaerobic ones that are eating those aerobic microbes the ones you want and they're releasing the ammonia so um you've been turning it like
53:33 eight times a day maybe make the pile a bit thinner i mean i don't i don't know like um you're uh man i don't know because it's you're up in a different climate than me um and you cannot use a blower instead of turning the pile because turning you're taking the outside microbes mixing them to inside and you're actually increasing diversity so it's not about just inserting air it's actually about turning the pile and actually making an ecosystem it's um you know there's a lot to it more than just um these things but there's a lot of concepts that all fit
54:07 together but um but you know it's hard to hack these things to make it that way um so anyway um i don't know if you're turning it eight times a day that seems like that is more than sufficient And so maybe on that, I don't know if you included fuel when you initially did it or something or what material you're actually making it from. But it sounds to me like your material was a little too rich. You might want to go with something that's like a little less like food oriented, starch, less carbs. I don't know, maybe blend some wood chips in it to kind of slow it down.
54:42 Also throw in a bit of biochar when you're making it. um and that will also help to stabilize all these processes um mill run is prescribed okay so i would then then blend in you you think you need to increase your carbon in there a little bit so blend in some um blend in some wood chips or some biochar to increase the amount of carbon that you have to salvage these piles and even at this point you can blend it in it'll be fine it'll hopefully slow that process down give the microbes some other things um and yeah so
55:17 um yeah and move in yeah cheryl's saying did you move it to a new spot maybe maybe also doing that you know um lots of suggestions i love to see this from the community of people that are having experience sharing more experience because that's what makes a difference um so um yeah so we'll see on all that i don't know good good suggestions coming up um so same spot in pure mill run yeah you might want to blend in a bit of wood chips carbon i think same spot you know we'll see um so anyway i did want to i'm going to transition over to this screen and i did want to continue
55:58 with master cho's presentations here um he's getting into natural farming methodology if you tune in two weeks ago because i didn't do it last week um we talked about um the great teachers so his inspirations and then this week um this is like the origins of knf part of the presentation we're getting into natural farming methodology so um you know so his one of his main theories is no pesticides so natural farming does not use pesticides at all you know um but you know
56:33 So I'm just going to kind of read from the slide here, but pesticides not only kill insects, but they also remain in the soil and in the fruits. So you're going to eat that residual stuff. When absorbed, it can inflict serious lasting harm on our bodies and even our descendants. Right. So you're thinking about the seventh generation. It's like, you know, a great perfect fruit today, but I'm killing myself. I'm lowering my sperm count. i'm you know like putting you know chemicals in me that are designed to kill into me then i'm
57:06 passing that nutrition onto my children and everything so it's um it's it's um going you know into our descendants and everything and natural farming helps the corrupt ecosystem to recover so if these chemicals are in the ecosystem the microorganisms help to break them down. And just quickly to answer George's question on the wood chips, how much would I add? I would add in about 10% of your pile with wood chips at this point to see 10 to 20% somewhere in there. So natural farming and then so the recovered and balanced ecosystem results
57:47 in less pests and less disease. So actually, if you go and you recover your ecosystem, then the pests and diseases are there to actually treat things that are unhealthy. So if you're always, you know, like the pests and disease, they're the janitors, right? So if you clean up the mess ahead of time, you build a healthier ecosystem ahead of time, you won't have as many pests and as many disease. And then he says fruits from natural farming exhibit natural colors, fragrance, and sometimes insect bite marks as proof of zero pesticides. So having a little pest,
58:22 it's actually like you know when you go to the store and you see a little bit of pest damage a little bit of things it's like it's actually a good sign right uh getting getting better things there um getting it so it's like you don't have these same things so strengthen your plants don't try to kill everything because it you know you think of this as a seventh generation thing as a clean the planet you're going to kill everything using these things so um then he talks about no herbicides, right? So not only no pesticides, no herbicides. And these are products from war
58:52 that were developed to like kill. And actually the main herbicide glyphosate was actually developed as a descaler for a boiler, meaning that basically it takes all the mineral content, solubilizes it and pulls it out, right? And so that's what it's doing to your plant. So natural farming does not use herbicides. Killing the weeds with herbicides is not the only solution, nor is it wines, right? You know, bare soil killing everything. It's like you're killing your whole microbiome. You're killing everything, you know, so it's not the wisdom is
59:27 like there are better techniques. So herbicide is lethal to humans also. So every time you're out there spraying herbicide, are you thinking about what you're getting? You know, I look around here, a lot of, we have a lot of papaya farmers and as they're aging, they're all getting cancers. they're all um you know starting to die from like alzheimer's and and um parkinson's and stuff and those i think i mean i'm not saying this is true you know 100 true because i don't want to um you know get in a lawsuit or anything but it seems to me there's a high correlation between
59:59 pesticide application and later degeneration of your body you know we're also ingesting it through our food right um so natural farming utilizes weeds rather than killing them so actually look at the weeds as your allies putting those out there um seeing how they're complementary to what you're growing and it says we intentionally grow wild grass such as rye and clover from mulching so those will grow and they don't get tall enough to knock down your plant like you know orchard for sure they don't grow up tall enough to knock down and then in in other places
1:00:33 you can cut them and chop and drop onto more vegetable type things and my throat's a little scratchy here but um the grass prevents soil erosion holds moisture helps microorganism propagate produces organic fertilizer improves soil ventilation and suppresses pests that's more than five things that's six things chat gpt can only suggest three this is six things it's twice what chat gpt can give you um we um you know so all this comes from you know like the classic bear field and then they're wondering why they're in a drought and why you know the
1:01:19 plants are dying and why there's so much insects and then you gotta apply so much herbicide it's because you killed the home where all the insects could have lived and you you um you know like of course it's going to lead to other problems so cover cropping right he says intentionally putting things that are going to be great and cover cropping with your plants um there it's going to improve all these things and your soil is going to get richer and then you're gonna have less pest problems maybe in the very beginning you might have more pest problems because there's
1:01:47 more habitat but eventually your soil will get richer and it's just that balance can you wait it out can you get to that level and then also when i mow i don't mow 100 on my farm i try to mow every other row and or now i graze with my cows so it's way better um it's actually a much better system to just use hoofers instead of um hoofers you know um but to to graze uh you know and to mow every other side because i leave half the grass tall because if i mowed it all 100% now the bugs have no place to go they all got to go into my crops right but if i mow half they'll just
1:02:22 move over to where the grass is tall then i mow the other half you know and alternate it so i keep one part kind of tall. And this again is the natural, I don't have to use herbicides because they'll move into the grass. I'm creating more habitat, more ecosystem. So again, his next slide is no tilling, right? This sounds like way less labor because I don't have to spray pesticides. I don't have to spray herbicides. Now I don't have to till, right? How much of your investment on your farm is in your machinery for tillage, right? And so natural farming promotes no mechanical
1:02:55 tillage of the land. I do however recommend you shape your beds first, you build your key line design first, then stop tilling. Instead of using tilling machines, we use earthworms, microorganisms, and small animals to nurture the soil. So those will all grow through and do everything and actually till your land much better than you can at much more depth. And the byproduct to those are manures and worm castings that will actually enhance the tilt of the soil instead of tilling it where you destroy everything and destroy all your fungus and set yourself back years
1:03:33 so the machine plows eight inches at best whereas the earthworms can dig 13 to 23 feet under the ground and the excretions of the earthworms produce the best nutrient-rich soil which is is exactly what I just said. And the next slide says no chemical fertilizer here. Natural farming does not use chemical fertilizers, right? So it's all sweet. It's all sugar-based, and you can eat all this stuff. And I'm a little bit over time. I'm going to continue out, finish out this little bit here going. But natural farming does not use chemical fertilizers.
1:04:11 nitrogen, phosphoric acid, potassium, calcium, and all other elements that would be commonly given in the form of chemical fertilizer are substituted with natural farming materials, right? And we can make the, all these things, the nitrogen is the can of fuel, the fish aminos, phosphoric acid is in the, um, the structure, the dissolved bones, charred dissolved bones, potassium is in your fermented fruit juice fermented plant juices but also fermented flower juices all in there they have tons of potassium in those calcium we have the knf
1:04:46 reproduction where it's dissolved eggshells or dissolved coral that's been toasted to get out inorganic material dissolved in vinegar so all those things we get and plus more without having to have the nasty fertilizer plants that are out there that create so much pollution and the mining and the the um you know energy that goes into making chemical fertilizers just insane um and so you know the haber bosch process you know uses most natural gas in the world to like turn it into fertilizer right you don't need that um so the fish aminos yeah exactly
1:05:23 fish aminos provide nitrogen eggshells give calcium animal bones are a source of phosphoric acid exactly what i just said and our natural farming materials are not only cheap but they're highly effective right so it costs you next almost next to nothing to do it this way your main investment is a little bit of time but you know time is money and if that money you're saving is more time for you then now you know they're there and they're even better they're more organic they're more absorbable so you don't need the chemicals that only last like two weeks and then harden
1:05:55 into rock minerals you can actually put these organic substances that are absorbed directly into the plant thank you for the super chat yes don mason thank you it's awesome so um maybe that's the overtime a little bit so um so then he goes into livestock barns with no pollution there's no pollution from a livestock farming barns and i can tell you the only runoff i get is beneficial runoff my my livestock pen actually spills over and it's more fertile around it it's like whoops beneficial runoff. Livestocks and pens do not discharge any wastewater because I don't have to
1:06:31 wash the floor. I don't have to clean up after the chickens or the pigs. It's digested right there. My water bill is zero besides what they drink to feed themselves up there. So when livestock feces fall, when feces from livestock fall on the floor, it is quickly decomposed by powerful microorganism activities. So that's why there's no smell. It's digested before the smell can happen. And it actually turns those into proteinaceous things. The animals will actually get food source from their waste as it's been fermented by these microorganisms.
1:07:09 And so concrete is not used on the barn floor. So again, huge labor or huge cost savings when you're building your facility. You don't need to put concrete down. You just dig a hole. and build the floor in there. And the floor is in direct contact with the soil, which teems with microorganisms. So you're actually exchanging microbes out there into there. The piglets are good, by the way. I was going to give you a piglet update. So stay tuned till the end and I'll give you a little piglet update. And so the floor consists of a mixture of rice straw, sawdust, fresh soil. I end up using logs
1:07:47 and wood chips so logs underneath the wood chips because i don't have um rice straw sawdust and i do add a little bit of soil in there um and so there's no need to clean or remove the animal waste and feces from the natural farming barns even after many years of use and i can testify to that my barn is uh was created in 2012 so it's just getting to 11 years of um usage and it's still, you know, I haven't even had to clean it or remove any waste in 11 years from pigs, huge pigs in there. And it does not pile up. It's right. They actually decompose with very
1:08:27 little smell. So actually one of the main issues is that instead of piling up and getting more and more waste, it's actually composting and breaking down and turning back into the carbon hydrogen oxygen, which then off gas into the air through, through proper fermentation. And so through that carbon, hydrogen, oxygen have no smell. And so my barn doesn't smell as it's decomposing and breaking down. It's not turning into highly nitrogenous off-gassing, which is what smells. And so natural farming resources such as sunlight, efficient air circulation,
1:09:00 and microorganisms are utilized to maintain the floor dry and fluffy, totally. And it's a common site to see natural farming barns or pens right next to residential buildings. Mine's, however, way over there because of noise for the chickens that they want to annoy my other neighbors over here with chickens crawling which i do keep a few roosters i keep one rooster per 12 hens so um but and but i could live right in there and i do i go up there all the time and it's like it's really nice so um so again and then also in the barns no artificial heating so even if you're in
1:09:36 um you know korea where it gets really cold and really hot and in america where it snows all the time um you know all the time all winter right or anywhere you have big seasons except i'm in the tropics i don't really have that issue but i don't have to heat or cool the building because um and it says here natural instead of using fossil fuel or electricity to provide heating we help the livestock to develop the natural resistance against cold okay so also the floor heats up itself and keeps them warm. But natural farming chickens grow short, tough, and dense hair, whereas ordinary
1:10:13 chickens have long, soft, and sparse hair. So I haven't noticed that with my chickens. I'm in the tropics, but I'm sure it's the case because I've seen chickens in Korea and no artificial heating in there. In cold regions, the heat coming from fermentation of the compost is utilized to maintain a comfortable temperature level in the barn. So again, the floor is composting, Heating is fermenting. It's about 104 degrees down there if I dig down. And that is keeping the animals very comfortable.
1:10:42 That heat also helps then suck out the air at the top and keep circulation and bring cool air in for me where it's actually hotter than they would like. But it stays really nice and cool in my barn. And then again, the natural farming. The next slide is the natural farming feed is made locally by farmers. natural farming feed chickens are fed with whole brown rice grains and bamboo leaves immediately after hatching this toughens up their immune or their intestines and tough fiber rich feed strengthens their intestines exactly what i said animals raised by natural farming methodology are
1:11:16 healthy strong and have little disease because they're already tough you know they're not like these weakling things we're trying to get we toughen them up you know give them a hard knock childhood and then they get really nice. And then nutrient cycle theory, which I covered a lot in this office hour, raises crops and livestock based on the nutritive cycle theory, which is it is a theory that enables us to identifying the changing growth stages in plants and animals. And if you saw that, I was talking about the peach is different than the pear is different
1:11:48 than the pepper. All these things, you know, you got to understand each one. And then natural farming methodology is very elaborate and complicated and precise method that denies the spray and forget kind of approach right i was talking about how you got to be a better master at this to understand how those guides are just guidelines or those formulas or prescriptions are just guidelines but you can't just like mix something and spray and forget you actually got to be an active observer of it and it says natural farming emphasizes the right use of the right
1:12:20 material at the right stage in the right quantity and so all those things you got to tune yourself in to be that person and then it will work for you beyond your wildest dreams you will see just amazing returns so i encourage you you know tune in learn watch those original videos make yourself the best natural farmer you can but the best is just to go out observe see tune in spend time in your farm, your garden, and really learn this deeply. So I think that's what I got for today. The next time we'll be going over natural farming products. But the last little bit,
1:12:58 as promised, I'm going to go through and do a little pigs. That's why actually if you watch the beginning of this office, I was a bit late starting because I was actually trying to bring this onto my computer instead of just my phone. But a little pig update for you guys. I'll turn this sideways so you can see here. But them pigs getting huge. We'll let focus on that, maybe. I know you guys can see it. But here's the little pigs doing their things. They're getting huge. I'll actually update a YouTube video, but they're doing really well. I love them. They're
1:13:42 really differentiating out to their different things. And then I've also made their own separate little ping pen where they can run through this little tunnel into their own place. So now they're eating on their own side. They're now starting to eat solid, good food. They love the papayas. And I'm trying to get them and ease up their, ease up the pressure on mom so that, you know, now they're starting to nurse pretty hard on mom and she, she now they're old enough that now when she used to be really nice and care for them and like, you know, be real concerned if they would
1:14:17 squeal. Now, if they start eating her food, she'll just flip them in the air and like, be like, that's my food. So that's why I feed them separately in their own pen. Um, but they're eating banana stock. They're eating, um, you know, um, all, all their big foods. So they're trying to get, um, you know, but they are still nursing and I, oh man, look at the Gigi. That's my, my little girl there. She's so awesome. Um, but they've been, they've been doing well. Um, and so yeah, giving them their own feed and we've also been feeding calf loss to,
1:14:56 um, short ribs, their mom, and it's keeping her milk really strong. So even though it's, you know, they're, they're what, uh, 37 days old, um, they're really doing well. And I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to wean them about 45 days. So they'll, they'll be there. Um, so, but anyway, I love them. They're, they're great. I, it's just so cute after I cut their balls off, they're a little more skeptical of me, but they still come over for pets and we're rebuilding that relationship, you know, it's wild. Um, and, um, sadly, I, I,
1:15:28 I actually, I did have one die, um, because of the botched, um, castration job that I did is the first time I was ever castrating a pig. And that one that I castrated first, um, he got a UTI and ended up passing away. And I just, I, anyway, I learned a lot and I'll probably never kill another pig from that way again, but, um, shoot, man, it's, it's, it's a hard learning curve to be a good farmer and to know, and it's my first time doing it by myself. Usually my friend who's a doctor for the army would come over, but he's, you know, he's, he's now has a family and he was busy
1:16:00 and shit. So I was like, I'll do it myself. I know how to do this. And it was just, anyway, I learned a lot. Susanna and I learned a lot and I don't think I'll ever mess up again, but it's so, so hard to lose one of your animals. I really loved him, but I turned them into good compost. I put them on my miracle berry. And you know, but, oh man, the tragedy, we tried to nurse him back to health for like three days. And, um, you know, there's, there's only so much you can do with a pig calling a vet to like spend a bunch of money on an animal. It's only worth like 125 bucks.
1:16:33 And so, um, you know, the tragedy of life of man, I'm trying to be a better farmer. So, but anyway, the other, the other, um, seven of them doing kicking butt, um, really doing well. I, I, you know, um, so anyway, I had to share that with you guys, but, um, but, oh, and then, I do. I was able to buy them some ice cream and I fed them some ice cream and they loved it. So check that video. I'll probably upload that after this and check that out. But I want to thank you guys for tuning in. Everyone from around the world, Stone Mason for the super chats, supporting
1:17:06 Pure Cana Foundation, making these things great. Trying to show up consistently. Sorry, I missed last week, but you know, just traveling, I got to actually give myself time and forgiveness and all that stuff. But love you guys. Thanks. Thanks for tuning in. Looking forward to seeing you next week should be here. Happy May. Happy spring. Happy everything. And if I missed anything, send me an email, drake at pureknf.org. Let me know how I can be better to help you guys do our things, make it better for everyone, and really appreciate you. Yeah, truly,
1:17:40 truly I do. Thank you, and aloha, and see you next week. Aloha. Bye now.