| 0:00 | Intro and Welcome |
| 1:49 | I Ching Reading: Ta’i / Peace |
| 3:37 | Cho philosophy – sun, water, & wind (the basics) |
| 7:23 | How do i convert my 120 acre land to KNF? starting from wasteland |
| 8:55 | Result of the “Green Revolution”; exploitive ag, mining the soil |
| 11:56 | “Every farm has to have a bottomline”: cash crop; market; understanding cost analysis |
| 16:42 | using indidgenous plants to create onsite fertilizer |
| 17:22 | KNF e-book; knfsupport.com; what to do with crop waste |
| 18:49 | How to KNF chickens: ensiling food onsite; pastered chicken wagon for remediation; protecting from predators; solutions |
| 21:38 | If trying to convert to knf / remediate 120 acres USE THIS RECIPE: cheap microbes. + organic matter, biochar |
| 24:06 | 9 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..” |
| 27:31 | IMO4 what much per acre |
| 28:03 | how to prepare the soil; converting meadow land into orchard. when to apply IMO4. soil foundation |
| 30:30 | should i apply IMO5 instead of IMO4 to enrich the soil? IMO4=ADAPTED IMO – IMO5=FERMENTED MIXED COMPOST |
| 32:11 | is it better to make liquid IMO for large scale? |
| 33:28 | when is the best time to transplant? rainy season or after? bio char |
| 33:58 | soil foundation; weeds growing in the area you prepared; beneficial ground cover; mulch & cardboard layering |
| 35:03 | KNF paradise; Mexico; permaculture & KNF combined; benefiting the whole planet |
| 36:16 | paddock animals; intensive grazing concentrating manure with IMOs; cheap microbe solutions with drench tec; improve grass quality |
| 37:30 | A+ Seed IMO (IMO#1) collection |
| 38:10 | mulching with pine; where to mulch around a tree |
| 41:18 | integrating cash crops with other plants; marijuana as the gate way plant to farming |
| 42:11 | Steve Dred’s Aquaponics conference; Dragonfly Earthmedicine |
| 43:23 | do you foliar feed all the way through flowering? knf formulas; solutions app calculator |
| 44:05 | natural farming book; KNF growth formulas & chart for plant life cycle |
| 46:38 | would juniper wood we suitable for deep litter system? materials used in a no-smell pig pen floor |
| 47:52 | IMOs dissolving/”mining” minerals, sand, silt, clay. spraying, watering, drenching solutions & building soil with exudates |
| 51:12 | ground breaking: using a machine to shape beds; black plastic/tarp, cardboard; soil foundation; no-till |
| 53:06 | chisel plow; seawater; calcium; minerals; flocculation; knfProtectors; build soil texture; bottomline |
| 54:51 | pigs for tilling |
| 55:18 | East coast KNF instructors; online directory of Pure KNF certified teachers |
| 56:25 | remote 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 |
| 1:00:53 | Pure KNF Foundation; knfsupport.com; office hour archive; downloaded book |
Office Hours with Dr. Drake
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Office Hours – Dr. Drake – Jan 16, 2022
| Time | Topic |
| 0:00 | Intro and welcome |
| 1:34 | I Ching Reading: The Well |
| 4:36 | Introducing students from the KNF Farm training (1/10-16/2022) |
| 4:57 | “What’s been your experience here? What have you learned?” |
| 5:07 | Don “Iceman” McNamara: seeing it in real life is much different! |
| 6:12 | Ms. Hope Barajas: we went in depth to a whole new level |
| 8:11 | “What was your confidence level before taking the course? And how is it now?” |
| 8:28 | Hope: from A-Z; taste testing; doing it; real life applications; having a solid mentor is confidence building |
| 10:59 | Donna Rae: helpful to learn from our mistakes as well as our sucesses; the hosts and accommodations are wonderful |
| 13:06 | “Did you hug the pigs?” / Hope: the sweet temperments of the animals prove that the micro-organisms are in balance |
| 14:06 | Donna Rae: No-smell animals are happy! |
| 14:35 | “What affect does plastic row covers have on IMO?” |
| 16:31 | Augering holes (filling with fish and IMOs) between rows & black plastic |
| 18:47 | “How has KNF affected your life?” |
| 19:06 | Don: we’re excited to short cut thru the system |
| 19:32 | Hope: KNF is aligned with closing every loop in the system, being conscious on imputs, carbon footprint, giving back more than taking |
| 21:38 | Donna Rae: working with the villages of Alaska to create sustainable farms, resilient systems, and nutrient dense food |
| 22:55 | Drake: KNF gives the tools to feel empowered personally to solve the problems of the land and make a difference |
| 25:18 | “What kinds of farm/garden/orchard do you have back home?” |
| 25:28 | Donna Rae: 5 acre market farm, fruit trees, potatoes, berries, veggies, chickens, ducks, turkeys; BIO NUTRIENT METER |
| 27:25 | Hope: managing other people’s farms from the ground up, or coming in to fix problems |
| 28:43 | Don talks about his IMO3&4 experience throughout the week |
| 29:25 | Drake talks about the IMO propogation during the class |
| 30:28 | “What are your aspirations after taking this class and how do plan to share it with the world?” |
| 30:42 | Hope: knowledge; real life experience; sharing with the communities / teaching others; solutions beyond farming |
| 32:56 | Donna Rae: creating more nutritious & resilient plants; starting a KNF club at our farm; working with the villages teaching tribes KNF |
| 35:24 | Don: online zoom Homer garden club with Oceanside Farms |
| 37:09 | “Would you talk more about your experience applying KNF to cannabis?” |
| 37:35 | Hope: specific nutrient profile at certain phase of life; feeding plants food from same plant to give proper nutrition at right time; win disease battles |
| 40:35 | Question follow up on spider mites (specifically to cannabis) |
| 41:28 | If you had to show ONE KNF product to somebody who doesn’t know anything about NF, what would it be? |
| 41:47 | HOPE – L.A.B.S. are applicable to so many facets of life |
| 42:44 | Don – KNF soap & herbal solution for spider mites |
| 43:30 | Don – FPJ, easy & quick; feed your plants |
| 44:24 | Donna Rae – FPJ you can see really good results with your plants quickly |
| 45:09 | Hope: Pest Control with KNF: use soap & LAB first before adding a food source (FPJ) |
| 46:33 | “Should IMO#4 be stored where it doesn’t freeze?” |
| 46:50 | Don: at latitude 59 everything freezes |
| 47:24 | Drake: avoid putting IMO in a place where its going to freeze; spore form protects it to a degree |
| 50:27 | “Can I make IMO without OHN” |
| 50:42 | Don: Mt. Rose Herbs; follow Drake’s book |
| 51:37 | Donna Rae: trying plants in our area; using whats local; sometimes a different variety |
| 52:34 | Suze: Gilcaragan of Phillipines just uses ginger & garlic as “OHN” |
| 52:53 | Drake: focus on the why, overtime refine the how as you are able, with the resources available |
| 54:03 | Q for the Alaskans: “What kinds of things would be good for your fermented plants juices?” |
| 54:13 | Don: horsetail (silica), comfrey (potassium, phosphorous, nitrogen), stinging nettle (nitrogen & boron), chickweed, strawberry runners |
| 55:46 | What do you think about the blance of lactic acid bacteria and aerobic microbes (IMO)? |
| 56:27 | Hope: you can smell an imbalance in microbes; reading your landscape; knowing what balance each plant wants of bateria to fungi |
| 57:33 | Drake: LAB turned out like yogurt; IMO’s (and basilius subtilus) outcompeteing LAB |
| 58:58 | Donna & Don: no longer doing crop rotations or resting plots; turning a monocrop into a polycrop (with FPJ) |
| 58:57 | Can you make FAA without IMO4? |
| 1:00:04 | Hope: Fish Amino acid is 2 ingredients: the sugar pulls out the good fats, oils, aminos, & supersaturates to preserve |
| 1:00:40 | Suze: adding the right amount of sugar to FAA mitigates pathogens; lactobasillus present helps storage |
| 1:01:15 | Donna: put down enough sugar at the bottom of bucket: layer even amounts |
| 1:01:35 | Don: use blue back fish, ahi, tuna, salmon, anchovies; get the book |
| 1:02:00 | Thank you ALL |
Office Hours – Dr. Drake – Jan 9, 2022
| 0:00 | Welcome and iChing- Keeping Still or Mountain |
| 3:48 | Farmers seem to get punished |
| 5:50 | thank you sponsors |
| 6:05 | Master Cho’s wish to build community; healing us |
| 7:30 | Is there a way to donate to Drake without Gogle taking a cut? www.pureknf.org or www.naturalfarminghawaii.net |
| 12:22 | Send questions for Office Hour via email to drake@pureknf.org |
| 16:06 | Nutritional cycle of leafy greens compared to fruiting plants |
| 17:40 | Are the Maintenance Solutions different at different stages? Alter the KNF Food at different stages of growth |
| 20:07 | Has anyone ever collected IMO from locations far apart and combining them |
| 25:00 | What is the best brand of sea salt? |
| 26:40 | JADAM wetting agent or sulfur for a market garden? |
| 33:00 | If I use C90 to make salt water how do I prepare it to be like reagular seawater? |
| 35:45 | Super saturated fruit juice- if refrigerated, how long does it last? |
| 38:15 | OHN love- PureKNF Medicine |
| 39:30 | www.knfsupport.com has all the past episodes of Ofice Hours |
| 40:18 | If I add turmeric will it overpower the flavor of KNFMedicine? Can you add other things? |
| 41:55 | Smell your PureKNF Food and then taste for viability |
| 42:40 | it tastes good with turmeric |
| 43:14 | Brassicas reacting with fungus? |
| 45:40 | www.naturalfarminghawaii.net has a bunch of content |
| 47:01 | How to start in the UK in the winter? |
| 48:54 | JaADAM sulfur makes oranges smell like sulfur |
| 49:17 | come to Hawaii for training in the winter |
| 49:30 | What is the name of the food nutrition density guy? |
| 49:50 | Bionutrient sensor |
| 49:55 | check out the Bio Nutrient Food Association (BFA) you tube channel |
| 50:09 | make KNFFuel (FAA) from the fish you catch, use the heads |
| 50:33 | Can you make humic acid with potassium hydroxide and charcoal? |
| 53:15 | making KNFFuel (FAA) |
| 54:48 | KNFFuel (FAA) gets better with age |
| 55:30 | using JADAM microbe solution after tilling |
| 56:02 | Master Cho’s recipes for IMOs and JADAM JMS compared |
| 59:27 | KNFFuel (FAA) smells like yeast and alcohol; sealed lid |
| 1:01:20 | visual video of how to build soil foundation |
| 1:06:00 | long live the Natural Farmer |