Past Office Hours

Office Hours โ€“ Dr. Drake โ€“ August 28, 2022

0:00:00Intro and Welcome
0:01:22I Ching Reading – Biting Through
0:08:16pigs on the farm story
0:13:37people checking in, sending videos
0:15:23what does Drake feed his pigs? commercial feed is in short supply
0:19:13in what ratio of LAB starter do you add? does it have sugar? 600 ml in a 30 gal trashcan
0:20:52food taco hooked up to moisture sensor
0:31:00video from Rainbow Possum Farm, showing great KNF results- this is the inspiration
0:36:27video of making WCA (water soluble calcium)
0:42:28video collecting IMOs
0:45:40making KNF Food (FPJ) from mugwort
0:46:15back to IMO collection
0:48:30KNF Protectors (LAB) mixed with brown sugar with clear stuff on top- OK? storage; your nose knows
0:49:25photos of 10 gallons to spray- automatic dilutor; different sprayers
0:50:32flower garden photos
0:52:03why use all the solutions- don’t IMOs create the conditions for plants to thrive? help them to speed up the process
0:54:23Drake’s channel with demo farms in Korea- farmers practice KNF so well, they don’t have to do much
0:56:30can good IMO be made without anything else? you can but Master Cho talks about right food, right time, right amount
1:01:09Robert’s Rules of Order- Certification Committee; directory coming
1:02:15thanks to Puire KNF Foundation; www.pureknf.org
1:02:58thanks for the videos- long live the Natural Farmer

Office Hours โ€“ Dr. Drake โ€“ August 21, 2022

0:00:00Intro and Welcome
0:02:07I Ching Reading – 27. Providing Nourishment
0:11:49collecting rice wash water (LAB recipe); can you wait too long? curd cork
0:15:15how to preserve LAB for a long time; tips
0:15:58all three stages of LAB and its smells
0:17:16storebought probiotics (lactobassillus);
0:18:15Jim McElvaney’s Backyard Probiotics; basillus subtilis; basillus lichenformis; homemade probiotics heal all kind of diseases!
0:27:00“Can i use water kefir instead of lacto?”; probiotic
0:29:04stay on our farm @ Three River’s Farm on Airbnb in Papaikou, HI
0:31:37putting LAB in smoothies/food; glucose as a carrier to the gut
0:32:18soil microbe based probiotics; seed IMO consituents
0:34:03probiotic (lab grown strain) capsules; bacillus subtilus
0:36:35“How is Master Cho doing?”
0:39:27knfProtectors have healed our guts
0:40:15foaming lacto
0:41:15starting a farm in Ka’u, should we remove the christmas berry trees?
0:42:19knfvideo 2019 playlist; Christmas Berry “bio-rejuvenation juice” helps ancent orange poisoning
0:47:00water kefir is lactobacillus
0:47:39what is the difference between fish amino acid and fish hydrolisate
0:48:54knfFuel (fish amino acid) recipe; to add IMO or not?
0:50:05applying KNF to cover crops; leaf & soil formula
0:53:33adding vinegar to eggshells
0:54:43Disgustingly Ceap KNF; putrefication; fermentation
0:55:55new knf class video; seasalt; “what do we do in a deenergized supply breakdown situation?”; cheap knf basics
0:57:16Sugar vs Molasses video
0:58:31How to knf video: Julia from Findland makes knfFood from flowers for bees!
1:02:38“Bees & Microbes” on knf video

Office Hours โ€“ Dr. Drake โ€“ August 14, 2022

0:00:00Intro and Welcome
0:01:30I Ching Reading – Mountain over Wind- work on what has been spoiled/decayed
0:05:25Mikala Peterson’s podcast- Opposing Views- The Dutch Farm Crisis interview of two opposite views
0:09:05meat is important in your diet; livestock management
0:11:50animals are essential to be integrated into farming; World Economic Forum; farmers
0:17:20relationship with food; sacred relationship with animals
0:19:25eating insects is not a solution
0:19:52eastern Europe; world situation
0:20:35you are important to spread Natural Farming
0:21:07African swine flu
0:22:38famine creates more famine
0:23:31nitrogen fertilizer
0:25:05tools not to prevent collapse but to promote the recovery
0:29:12Hawaiian Sanctuary presentation- increase the good to tip the dominance; microbes can end climate change
0:33:50with famine, simplify to seawater, disgustingly cheap microbes and disgustingly cheap food- learn this and teach it
0:38:48vegan; farming plants requires animal products; understand the importance of animals
0:40:44reduce emissions with KNF
0:41:15controlled demolition; agenda; KNF is THE solution
0:45:50be the example to get others to change- transition now; bring KNF into the cities
0:56:15the Grange Movement- look it up; take political power back
0:59:15Dutch government is taking farming land
0:59:31https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=opposing+views+dutch+farm+crisis+
0:59:50look at both sides of issues- be willing to listen
1:01:55grow your own food
1:04:003 recipes in the book- all you need
1:06:10it’s better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war
1:06:48Julia’s channel in Finland
1:10:10thank yous
1:10:34long live the Natural Farmer