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 |