| 0:00 | Intro and Welcome |
| 0:52 | Special Guest Cheryl Mandila |
| 1:27 | I Ching reading – 41- Decrease |
| 3:54 | Day of rest |
| 4:40 | IMO collection of soil microbes |
| 13:44 | Natural Farmers tuning in from all around the world |
| 14:28 | Planting berries- top dress with IMO3 and IMO4, mulch, soil foundation |
| 16:42 | Natural Farming in Idaho- IMO vs. no IMO; watering is affected |
| 19:18 | Will LAB digest pond muck? |
| 20:01 | LAB for cut flowers |
| 22:29 | cleaning up muck- success in Japan and Oahu |
| 24:07 | Question about preparing land that was once a tomato farm and then pasture grazing for sheep |
| 26:12 | Birthdays- February 14 is Master Cho’s Birthday |
| 27:14 | Age of Aquarius- LAB, JMS saving the world |
| 29:00 | Yard care- you can water less |
| 33:39 | Weed barrier |
| 34:52 | Plastic era- feminizing males |
| 37:16 | Spring Creek Farms and JADAM- see it at Instagram atearthpurse; pass the test growing cannabis |
| 42:40 | IMO1- use Calrose rice or any white rice not brown rice because there are hulls which block the microbes |
| 44:50 | Can you use saturated LAB to make a new batch? |
| 46:14 | Cut lilies in FPJ and LAB and they grew bulbs |
| 46:39 | Regenerate pastures with sandy soil, monoculture and synthetic chemicals- check out last week’s episode (Feb. 6) |
| 47:44 | Tar spot, blight and powdery mildew- bring on the good guys |
| 53:10 | Chop and Drop |
| 53:50 | Organic matter to build soil and also cover crops |
| 54:30 | Gabe Brown- polyculture |
| 55:20 | How to make and use KNF- www.knfsupport.com and Drake’s YouTube channel |
| 58:06 | Market garden with goat manure |
| 1:00:21 | Elaine Ingham compost |
| 1:04:30 | Snake River Seed Cooperative- seed saving is the future; worm swapping |
| 1:06:37 | Cheyl’s contact: IG-earthpurse; Facebook- Seeds of Hope Boise |
| 1:07:13 | Crypto currency; selling OHN |
| 1:08:54 | Question about maintenance spray for cut flowers- LAB is helpful and phosphoric acid for growing; questions to Drake@pureknf.org |
| 1:15:58 | interested in Boise KNF class with Drake and possbily Elaine Ingham? Email Cheryl at growmoresoil@gmail.com |
| 1:16:44 | Thanks for tuning in |
Office Hours with Dr. Drake
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Past Office Hours
Office Hours – Dr. Drake – Feb 6, 2022
| 0:00 | Intro and Welcome |
| 1:17 | I Ching reading – 41- Decrease |
| 4:19 | Brown Rice vinegar and Apple Cider Vinegar- use Bananas; PureKNF Cleanser |
| 13:00 | Biochar- how to use; Josiah Hunt; Biocharred on Drake’s YouTube channel |
| 19:35 | BRV videos on YouTube; wine turns to vinegar |
| 21:37 | Pig food- relying on Natural Farming |
| 23:00 | Korean Natural Farming is the gateway into farming, immunological support |
| 24:00 | Water Soluble Potassium- do not char tobacco stems; find the recipe in the book, “Cho’s Natural Farming: Recipes and Instructions for Use” |
| 33:59 | Water Soluble Phosphoric Acid- charred sesame stems |
| 35:53 | FPJ from tobacco leaves? |
| 37:03 | FAA- best to use predatory fish |
| 43:18 | Sugar content of fruits- how to increase? |
| 47:35 | Flavor |
| 48:40 | Compost to IMO4 for soil building? |
| 53:03 | Charred cucumber skins |
| 54:08 | Chiton mix; GCM |
| 55:30 | IMO2 for FAA? Just sugar and fish |
| 56:04 | Other medicinal herbs for PureKNF Medicine? |
| 56:53 | Supersaturation- video on how to supersaturate KNF solutions (need link please) |
| 59:30 | www.knfsupport.com for answers to your questions |
Office Hours – Dr. Drake – Jan 30, 2022
| 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 |