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    Your Garden Needs Nutrients & Minerals
    Sherri Miller
    • Jun 18
    • 3 min

    Your Garden Needs Nutrients & Minerals

    WHAT IS NEEDED TO GROW FOOD What do you need to grow food? 1. Air 2. Water 3. Sun – Light & Heat 4. Soil 5. Nutrients, Minerals 6. Plants & Seeds In this series we discuss what is needed to grow food. This episode is about nutrients. YOUR GARDEN NEEDS NUTRIENTS & MINERALS Plants need minerals to convert the energy in sunlight into chemical energy, which is used and stored as sugars and starches. The simple molecules of sugar and starch are then used to create all the other w
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    Your Garden Needs Soil
    Sherri Miller
    • May 14
    • 3 min

    Your Garden Needs Soil

    LIBERTY GARDEN WHAT IS NEEDED TO GROW FOOD What do you need to grow food? 1. Air 2. Water 3. Sun – Light & Heat 4. Soil 5. Nutrients, Minerals 6. Plants & Seeds In this series we discuss what is needed to grow food. This episode is about soil. YOUR GARDEN NEEDS SOIL Your soil should be alive. It should have worms. Worms not only indicate the health of soil, but they improve the soil. The soil contains more life below the surface than the life seen above the surface, by order
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    Your Garden Needs Sun
    Sherri Miller
    • May 4
    • 3 min

    Your Garden Needs Sun

    LIBERTY GARDEN WHAT IS NEEDED TO GROW FOOD What do you need to grow food? 1. Air 2. Water 3. Sun – Light & Heat 4. Soil 5. Nutrients, Minerals 6. Plants & Seeds In this series we discuss what is needed to grow food. This episode is about sunlight. YOUR GARDEN NEEDS SUNLIGHT & HEAT SUNLIGHT Plants grow by converting sunlight into energy, using minerals in the soil, and storing that energy as sugars and starches. This energy conversion process is called photosynthesis. People
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    Your Garden Needs Water
    Sherri Miller
    • Apr 29
    • 3 min

    Your Garden Needs Water

    LIBERTY GARDEN What do you need to grow food? 1. Air 2. Water 3. Sun – Light & Heat 4. Soil 5. Nutrients, Minerals 6. Plants & Seeds YOUR GARDEN NEEDS WATER In this series we discuss what is needed to grow food. This episode is about water. WATER All life needs clean water. Trouble with Tap Water Too much water Not enough water Everything on Earth needs water to live. Water is the Life Force Activator. However there can be problems with water. Chemicals in the water, too muc
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    Your Garden Needs Air
    Sherri Miller
    • Apr 23
    • 2 min

    Your Garden Needs Air

    LIBERTY GARDEN WHAT IS NEEDED TO GROW FOOD What do you need to grow food? 1. Air 2. Water 3. Sun – Light & Heat 4. Soil 5. Nutrients, Minerals 6. Plants & Seeds In this series we discuss what is needed to grow food. This episode is about air. YOUR GARDEN NEEDS AIR When we talk about what we need to grow food this one is easy. Air is everywhere and it’s free! Plants and animals all need air. They exchange gases and enhance life together. Plants take in carbon dioxide and give
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    So You Want to Grow Your Own Food
    Sherri Miller
    • Apr 16
    • 1 min

    So You Want to Grow Your Own Food

    LIBERTY GARDEN SO YOU WANT TO GROW YOUR OWN FOOD A Liberty Garden offers ways to increase your security and sovereignty by growing food rather than buying food that is more expensive and less healthy. It will provide for you when supply chains fail and inflation makes many food items unaffordable. Much of the knowledge and skills needed to grow a Victory Garden were common in the early 1900s. Now a large part of the population doesn’t even know how to cook. The Western World
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    Fermented Chili Pickles
    Sherri Miller
    • Mar 11
    • 4 min

    Fermented Chili Pickles

    FERMENTED CHILI PICKLES from the Korean Natural Farming Kitchen By far, my main source of vitamin C is hot chili peppers. The garden produces them faster than I can eat them. So I came up with a basic recipe for an aerobic lactic acid fermentation, similar to Fermented Plant Juice, FPJ. Then I upped the flavor with a few yummy ingredients for a Fancy Pants Pickled Chili recipe. This is a food recipe inspired by Korean Natural Farming. Enjoy! First I remove the stems and seed
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    Groundhog Day
    Sherri Miller
    • Feb 4
    • 2 min

    Groundhog Day

    GROUNDHOG DAY The Solar Cycle Turns Groundhog Day is bigger than a silly holiday in February. The town mayor pulls out a groundhog to see if he will see his shadow. The story goes that if the groundhog sees his shadow there will be 6 more weeks of winter. It's a story about predicting the coming of spring. Groundhog day comes half way between Winter Solstice and Equinox (northern hemisphere) . It is a Cross-Quarter Day. The quarter days are the four solstices and equinoxes, a
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    Learning Natural Farming Skills & Techniques
    Sherri Miller
    • Feb 4
    • 6 min

    Learning Natural Farming Skills & Techniques

    KOREAN NATURAL FARMING Learning Natural Farming Skills & Techniques ZEN GARDENING Gil Carandang, a Natural Farmer in the Philippines, tells the story of one farmer he was trying to help. No matter what this farmer did, one section of his field would just not produce properly. Please, he pleaded with Gil, tell me what is wrong. Tell me what to do. Gil told the farmer he did not know what was wrong and he didn’t know what he should do. Why don’t you pray to God for your answer?
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    NATURAL FAMING Anywhere at any Scale
    Sherri Miller
    • Jan 26
    • 5 min

    NATURAL FAMING Anywhere at any Scale

    NATURAL FARMING Anywhere at any Scale DO NATURAL FARMING AT ANY SCALE In South Korea, where Master Cho developed Korean Natural Farming KNF, a husband and wife typically care for 3 cows, 10 pigs, and 500 chickens by themselves with no outside help. They probably have an orchard and some row crops as well. These farmers said their incomes doubled or tripled when they switched to KNF. Farming can be hard work and making money is often difficult. Natural Farming is the idea of l
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    MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES Polyculture, Hedgerows, IPM
    Sherri Miller
    • Jan 6
    • 4 min

    MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES Polyculture, Hedgerows, IPM

    WHAT IS NATURAL FARMING? Part 8 MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES Polyculture, Hedgerows, IPM POLYCULTURE: COMPANION PLANTING & PLANT DIVERSITY Nature grows wild. It’s true. Nowhere in Nature will you see endless acres of a single species of plant. A wild grassland, for example, may not look like anything but a sea of grass from the top of a hill. But once you start looking up close you will see many different species of grasses and similar plants. You will find some plants growing pros
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    PLANTING STRATEGIES Polyculture, Hedgerows, IPM
    Sherri Miller
    • Dec 29, 2021
    • 6 min

    PLANTING STRATEGIES Polyculture, Hedgerows, IPM

    WHAT IS NATURAL FARMING? Part 7 PLANTING STRATEGIES PLANTING & TRANSPLANTING Natural Farming utilizes specific techniques for planting and transplanting in order to ensure the plants grow as strong as possible. They are planted where they will grow best naturally, and they are planted in concert with other plants in a diverse ecosystem, making crops are less susceptible to pests and disease. Proper planning means less work in perpetuity. Poor planning can be costly and labor
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    Soil Integrity
    Sherri Miller
    • Dec 22, 2021
    • 4 min

    Soil Integrity

    WHAT IS NATURAL FARMING? Part 6 SOIL INTEGRITY Beyond No-Till Creating and maintaining Soil Integrity does more than increase yields, quality and health. Good soil is integral to a healthy environment. A healthy Natural Environment is a system that promotes diversity, a system where Nature in all its myriad of forms can flourish, a system that mitigates the carbon cycle in our favor. We want to develop a Natural System that is complete as possible, as close as possible to he
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    No Waste, Material Cycling & the Power of Nature
    Sherri Miller
    • Dec 13, 2021
    • 3 min

    No Waste, Material Cycling & the Power of Nature

    WHAT IS NATURAL FARMING? Part 5 NO WASTE, MATERIAL CYCLYING & THE POWER OF NATURE Natural Farming is an environmentally friendly growing system, with zero emissions, with all wastes recycled. It is a food production system that conserves water and conserves carbon. Since the soil has high levels of healthy, vibrant microbes the organic matter is quickly converted to soil. The bodies of microbes and small soil creature can be about 80% water, and one per gram of soil can hold
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    Observations and Natural Patterns
    Sherri Miller
    • Nov 7, 2021
    • 5 min

    Observations and Natural Patterns

    WHAT IS NATURAL FARMING? Part 4 OBSERVATONS AND NATURAL PATTERNS One of the main things that Master Cho talks about is observing Nature. This he says, is the way to find the answers. Sepp Holzer, a world renowned Permaculture Master from Austria, in known for telling people to “Read the Book of Nature.” How does one do that? ​ Many people understand how important observing Nature is, many even understand why that is important, but few understand how to observe Nature, especi
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    What is Natural Farming Introduction
    Sherri Miller
    • Nov 5, 2021
    • 4 min

    What is Natural Farming Introduction

    WHAT IS NATURAL FARMING? Part 1 NATURAL FARMING ABUNDANCE Natural Farming is the idea of creating food abundance by mimicking nature and working with natural processes, rather than trying to control nature. In essence you are turning much of the work of growing food over to Nature. For example, having healthy, abundantly living soil where worms do the tilling rather than tractors. Or using Integrated Pest Management and Species Diversification to develop a more balanced, mo
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    What does Natural Farming Look Like?
    Sherri Miller
    • Oct 31, 2021
    • 2 min

    What does Natural Farming Look Like?

    WHAT IS NATURAL FARMING? Part 2 300 YEAR OLD PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST This majestic tropical Food Forest has been a family garden for over 300 years. Basically everything in this lush landscape is edible and useful. Fruit and nut trees, root crops and fresh greens, spring-fed streams packed with water taro and watercress, full of small fish and fresh water shellfish. The gardens are wildly interspersed with flowers and herbs, trees for building materials and fiber. Medicine
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    How do I Kill it!?!
    Sherri Miller
    • Oct 31, 2021
    • 5 min

    How do I Kill it!?!

    3 Steps to a better way A nearby farmer was developing their land which had an overabundance of centipedes. Centipede bites are painful and sometimes they crawl into bed at night and bite people. So understandably, they actively helped their chickens search out all the centipedes and successfully wiped them out. It turns out, however, that centipedes eat cockroaches. It also turns out that these cockroaches carry a parasite which infect chickens. Without the centipedes the co
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