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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3 talks on “seeds”

Master Cho Han-kyu, interpreted by Kim Chang ·26 min Spoken in Korean

Seed Milk, Not Cow's Milk: The Seed Soak and Weaning Feed

Cho walks the first stages of the rice chart: sprouting February 12, weaning March 12. A seed grows on its own seed milk, so base fertilizer is like raising a baby on cow's milk; raise seedlings in poor soil. When the milk runs out, start feeding, beginning with Fuel (FAA). Then he puts up the prescription handout and the seed soak and Type 2 columns are read out, with two errors in the English copy caught; Dr. Park ends on the Mineral products and clay jars.

Found In Hawaiʻi you can grow rice twice a year; this chart follows Korean weather

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Master Cho Han-kyu, interpreted by Kim Chang ·30 min Spoken in Korean

Corn + IMO4 = No Till, No Weeds; Then a Four-Season Farm

Back at the projected prescription table, Cho goes over the first two columns again: a corn cover crop with Microbes (IMO4) under it, laid down as no-till mulch, and the seedling soak. Then he leaves the table for his picture of a Natural Farming farm in Hawaiʻi that visitors come to: something blooming or fruiting in every season, a guesthouse, good food, and a place to learn.

Found Soil prep starts with a cover crop, and in Hawaiʻi the best one is corn

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Master Cho Han-kyu, interpreted by Kim Chang ·24 min Spoken in Korean

The Season on One Table: Soil, Soak, Flowers, Sugar

Told he has two minutes, Cho asks what matters most in farming (the soil), then runs through the whole season on the projected table: cover crops, the seedling soak with the leaves kept dry, Type 2, the changeover and next year's fruit, Mineral D as water drawn from rock, Type 3 and ripening. He closes with his hopes for Hawaiʻi: classes on the islands, a CGNF Hawaiʻi quality mark, and starting small.

Found The most important thing in farming is the soil: love it

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