Oriental Herbal Nutrient recipe, which consists of tincturing garlic, ginger, licorice, cinnamon and angelica, was covered at the April 2015 Natural Farming Hawai’i meeting. These 5 traditional healing herbs have been effective medicine for countless generations. Learn how to integrate and apply this recipe and other medicinal tinctures in your natural farming practice.
Download a PDF of the presentation slides
This lesson was presented as in “Intro to Natural Farming” to an audience of experienced petroleum based farmers. It is an overview of the solutions natural farmers use as tools to assist plant and microbial growth. The later part the talk briefly goes into soil biology theory highlighting how crops we are typically trying to grow prefer fungal dominant soils, and reasons for using natural farming to build depth and soil diversity.
Natural Farming Hawai’i is well known for its scientific approach to increasing soil fertility and plant health. We use microscopic analysis to back up and validate all living soil solutions. Our all edible solutions are based on the most cutting edge biological research in soil science. Anybody with access to a 400x powered microscope may validate our theory themselves, and we encourage you to do so.
The following slides and video are an overview of the system presented for an experienced audience. Each solution is detailed in other videos. Aloha!
No smell, no flies, no cleaning, no problems pig pens, a.k.a. Inoculated Deep Litter Systems, were the topic of the May 2015 Natural Farming Hawai’i meeting and potluck. For over 5 years over a dozen operations have proven why this is the NRCS best practice for swine waste management plans, because there’s nothing to clean up! All the waste is digested right on the living floor reducing labor and eliminating the need for water.
Check out the slides from the presentation for your further review.
Oriental Herbal Nutrient Workshop from Drake on Vimeo.
Learn how to make OHN (Oriental Herbal Nutrient) with this video.
Josiah Hunt reports:
The recipe: Fish meal, wood chips, biochar, dirt.
2 Day workshop by Tropical Natural Farming expert Gil Carandang given November 2009 to early adopters of Natural Farming methods in Hawai’i. This presentation was financially sponsored by local farmers without requiring governmental or taxpayer grants. This is the true roots of Natural Farming and continues to provide great benefit to the community.
Perfect to listen to with a portable player in the garden. Let the land reinforce the words. We have twelve hours of audio broken into hour long chunks.
Download the whole audio of the seminar in mp3 format.
Master Cho on Hawai’ian Papaya from Drake on Vimeo.
Master Cho and Jyu-Young Cho assessing Eric Weinert’s Natural Farming Papaya Project in Kapoho. Hear the advice given on Growing in the heart of the tropical jungle and get a glimpse of the future of food.
Download the Fertilizer Application Guide as a PDF
I just came across this excellent publication by CTAHR
Step by step IMO preparation with photos published by the University of Hawai’i. This is the ‘mercedes benz’ of Indigenous Micro Organism preparation. Follow this recipe to achieve superior results in any environment.
www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/BIO-9.pdf
And a simplified version.
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Master Cho told a story of an old Japanese woman giving him this recipe for “All the terrible things the Japanese have done to the Korean people”, and perhaps it has enough mystical power to mend all that hardship. Make some and find out for your self.
Method
Takes 20~30 minutes of high heat until oil releases. Make sure to have plenty of ventilation.
It’s been known to sprout cooked beans if used properly.
I gave an hour and three quarters long talk on building soil foundation at the February 2012 natural farming monthly meeting. This is an introductory lesson on how to build a living soil using natural farming inputs.
Soil Foundation Presentation Slides pdf
I gave a talk in Kohala on April 28th 2012 explaining that Fermented Plant Juice is the food of a natural system. Spray it on your plants to encourage optimal growth. Here we present the full lecture in audio form as well as the accompanying slides for your fermenting library.
Slides of Presentation (PDF)
Master Cho talked about the Bacterial Mineral Water (BMW) as the first topic at his Advanced Training in Kohala in 2011. He mentioned all the lava rock, and that this device is the key to restoring it’s ability to support plant life.
Official CGNF information on the Bacteria Mineral Water(BMW).
The key concepts of the BMW is that it is getting oxygen, minerals, and ample amounts of microorganisms saturated in the water.
Melting rock with water? Yes. The primary hardening component of Hawai’i island basaltic lava rock is Silicon (Si). This Si can be pulled out of the rock with oxygenated water. The loose O2 in the water will suck the Si out of the rock to form SiO2, a very stable compound, known better to us as glass. Notice how a fresh lava flow will be very shiny, like glass. Then an old eroded lava flow, like the island of Kaua’i, looks just like the rock, minus the glass right? The rock as been transformed into a red dirt, and is primarily composted of the remaining Fe in an anaerobic forms.
to quote wikipedia:
Life on basaltic rocks
The common corrosion features of underwater volcanic basalt suggest that microbial activity may play a significant role in the chemical exchange between basaltic rocks and seawater. The significant amounts of reduced iron, Fe(II), and manganese, Mn(II), present in basaltic rocks provide potential energy sources for bacteria. Recent research has shown that some Fe(II)-oxidizing bacteria cultured from iron-sulfide surfaces are also able to grow with basaltic rock as a source of Fe(II).[8] In recent work at Loihi Seamount, Fe- and Mn- oxidizing bacteria have been cultured from weathered basalts.[9] The impact of bacteria on altering the chemical composition of basaltic glass (and thus, the oceanic crust) and seawater suggest that these interactions may lead to an application of hydrothermal vents to the origin of life.
At the May 2014 Monthly Meeting we went over the Fish Amino Acid recipe
Banchan-san presented a fermented beverage that originated in Japan after the 3/11 tsunami. People are finding that the microbes are mitigating the damage caused by radioactive exposure. This Shwa-Saka drink is made from the microbes of over 100 different herbs and cultured together is making it’s way around the world gaining even more potency through diversity.
PDF of instructions Shwa-Saka San
August 2015 Natural Farming Hawai’i Meeting in Hilo. Natural Farming Solutions was the topic discussed and the Maintenance solution recipe was given as 1 part OHN, 2 parts FPJ and 2 parts Vinegar (Banana preferred) combined, then diluted 20mL per gallon of water and sprayed every 7-11 days on plants optimally around sunset or used as a drench to clean up pollutants by revitalizing beneficial soil micro biology.
