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Makapala, North Kohala, Hawaiʻi Island · October 19–21, 2017

Master Cho on the Nutritive Cycle

Three days in a Makapala hall with Master Cho Han-kyu: when to feed a crop, what to feed it, and why. All seven recorded sessions are here as they happened. His Korean is translated again and checked, so you can read what he said, not only what the room heard.

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2 talks on “hawaii”

Joe McGinn ·28 min

Brown Sugar + Rice = the Whole Toolbox

Joe McGinn opens the afternoon by asking everyone where their grandparents are from, then walks through Cho's principles of natural farming in slides, read through a Hawaiian lens. He ends on a simple point: every solution rests on brown sugar or on rice vinegar, so anyone can start, beginning with Food (FPJ).

Found Supermarkets and tractors came in around the 1930s, so grandparents born before then farmed without machines or chemical fertilizer

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Master Cho Han-kyu, interpreted by Kim Chang ·16 min Spoken in Korean

Ōinoue's Theory, Cho's Chart: Where the Cycle Came From

With the rice chart back on the screen, Cho says every crop has a life, and rice's starts with sprouting on February 12. After a stretch break he credits the nutritive cycle to Ōinoue Yasushi, who bred the Kyoho grape, tells his own story of Ōinoue's persecution and death, of learning from the widow and son, and of refusing to be the successor. The chart itself is Cho's, and he asks Hawaiʻi to fit its own crops into it, with Joe McGinn leading.

Found Every crop has a life of its own: papaya, mango, banana and coffee as much as rice

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