Office Hours โ€“ Dr. Drake โ€“ Feb 13, 2022

0:00Intro and Welcome
0:52Special Guest Cheryl Mandila
1:27I Ching reading – 41- Decrease
3:54Day of rest
4:40IMO collection of soil microbes
13:44Natural Farmers tuning in from all around the world
14:28Planting berries- top dress with IMO3 and IMO4, mulch, soil foundation
16:42Natural Farming in Idaho- IMO vs. no IMO; watering is affected
19:18Will LAB digest pond muck?
20:01LAB for cut flowers
22:29cleaning up muck- success in Japan and Oahu
24:07Question about preparing land that was once a tomato farm and then pasture grazing for sheep
26:12Birthdays- February 14 is Master Cho’s Birthday
27:14Age of Aquarius- LAB, JMS saving the world
29:00Yard care- you can water less
33:39Weed barrier
34:52Plastic era- feminizing males
37:16Spring Creek Farms and JADAM- see it at Instagram atearthpurse; pass the test growing cannabis
42:40IMO1- use Calrose rice or any white rice not brown rice because there are hulls which block the microbes
44:50Can you use saturated LAB to make a new batch?
46:14Cut lilies in FPJ and LAB and they grew bulbs
46:39Regenerate pastures with sandy soil, monoculture and synthetic chemicals- check out last week’s episode (Feb. 6)
47:44Tar spot, blight and powdery mildew- bring on the good guys
53:10Chop and Drop
53:50Organic matter to build soil and also cover crops
54:30Gabe Brown- polyculture
55:20How to make and use KNF- www.knfsupport.com and Drake’s YouTube channel
58:06Market garden with goat manure
1:00:21Elaine Ingham compost
1:04:30Snake River Seed Cooperative- seed saving is the future; worm swapping
1:06:37Cheyl’s contact: IG-earthpurse; Facebook- Seeds of Hope Boise
1:07:13Crypto currency; selling OHN
1:08:54Question about maintenance spray for cut flowers- LAB is helpful and phosphoric acid for growing; questions to Drake@pureknf.org
1:15:58interested in Boise KNF class with Drake and possbily Elaine Ingham? Email Cheryl at growmoresoil@gmail.com
1:16:44Thanks for tuning in

Office Hours โ€“ Dr. Drake โ€“ Feb 6, 2022

0:00Intro and Welcome
1:17I Ching reading – 41- Decrease
4:19Brown Rice vinegar and Apple Cider Vinegar- use Bananas; PureKNF Cleanser
13:00Biochar- how to use; Josiah Hunt; Biocharred on Drake’s YouTube channel
19:35BRV videos on YouTube; wine turns to vinegar
21:37Pig food- relying on Natural Farming
23:00Korean Natural Farming is the gateway into farming, immunological support
24:00Water Soluble Potassium- do not char tobacco stems; find the recipe in the book, “Cho’s Natural Farming: Recipes and Instructions for Use”
33:59Water Soluble Phosphoric Acid- charred sesame stems
35:53FPJ from tobacco leaves?
37:03FAA- best to use predatory fish
43:18Sugar content of fruits- how to increase?
47:35Flavor
48:40Compost to IMO4 for soil building?
53:03Charred cucumber skins
54:08Chiton mix; GCM
55:30IMO2 for FAA? Just sugar and fish
56:04Other medicinal herbs for PureKNF Medicine?
56:53Supersaturation- video on how to supersaturate KNF solutions (need link please)
59:30www.knfsupport.com for answers to your questions

Office Hours โ€“ Dr. Drake โ€“ Jan 30, 2022

0:00Intro and Welcome
1:49I Ching Reading: Ta’i / Peace
3:37Cho philosophy – sun, water, & wind (the basics)
7:23How do i convert my 120 acre land to KNF? starting from wasteland
8:55Result of the “Green Revolution”; exploitive ag, mining the soil
11:56“Every farm has to have a bottomline”: cash crop; market; understanding cost analysis
16:42using indidgenous plants to create onsite fertilizer
17:22KNF e-book; knfsupport.com; what to do with crop waste
18:49How to KNF chickens: ensiling food onsite; pastered chicken wagon for remediation; protecting from predators; solutions
21:38If trying to convert to knf / remediate 120 acres USE THIS RECIPE: cheap microbes. + organic matter, biochar
24:069 vital solutions & tools to restore ecosystem soil biome; the acronyms & simplified names
25:57“i used cinnamon, garlic, & ginger but couldn’t get all the ingredients so added antipathogenic & medicinal plants..”
27:31IMO4 what much per acre
28:03how to prepare the soil; converting meadow land into orchard. when to apply IMO4. soil foundation
30:30should i apply IMO5 instead of IMO4 to enrich the soil? IMO4=ADAPTED IMO – IMO5=FERMENTED MIXED COMPOST
32:11is it better to make liquid IMO for large scale?
33:28when is the best time to transplant? rainy season or after? bio char
33:58soil foundation; weeds growing in the area you prepared; beneficial ground cover; mulch & cardboard layering
35:03KNF paradise; Mexico; permaculture & KNF combined; benefiting the whole planet
36:16paddock animals; intensive grazing concentrating manure with IMOs; cheap microbe solutions with drench tec; improve grass quality
37:30A+ Seed IMO (IMO#1) collection
38:10mulching with pine; where to mulch around a tree
41:18integrating cash crops with other plants; marijuana as the gate way plant to farming
42:11Steve Dred’s Aquaponics conference; Dragonfly Earthmedicine
43:23do you foliar feed all the way through flowering? knf formulas; solutions app calculator
44:05natural farming book; KNF growth formulas & chart for plant life cycle
46:38would juniper wood we suitable for deep litter system? materials used in a no-smell pig pen floor
47:52IMOs dissolving/”mining” minerals, sand, silt, clay. spraying, watering, drenching solutions & building soil with exudates
51:12ground breaking: using a machine to shape beds; black plastic/tarp, cardboard; soil foundation; no-till
53:06chisel plow; seawater; calcium; minerals; flocculation; knfProtectors; build soil texture; bottomline
54:51pigs for tilling
55:18East coast KNF instructors; online directory of Pure KNF certified teachers
56:25remote certification; learning series & book; building a network of teachers
59:03“Is it possible to cure a soil effected by bacteria wilt using IMO4?” LAB. bringing soil to balance
1:00:53Pure KNF Foundation; knfsupport.com; office hour archive; downloaded book