How Korean Natural Farming Changed Moonrise Tea Garden Moonrise started as an organic operation, switching to Korean Natural Farming after meeting Master Han-Kyu Cho, creator KNF and developer of IMO Indigenous Microorganism technology. Here are 9 changes after switching Moonrise Tea Garden to KNF : 1. Farm inputs bill went from $200/mo for tea, to $20/mo for the entire farm 2. Tea sold for $1 per gram and KNF eggs sold for $7 per dozen when organic eggs sold fo

CALL TO PLANT A LIBERTY GARDEN IF YOU GROW YOUR OWN FOOD YOU HAVE MORE LIBERTY & SECURITY We live in uncertain times. We have supply chain issues, shortages, rising prices, pandemics, natural disasters, and war. During wartime the Homefront started growing Victory Gardens. The more food people at home could grow, the more resources could be devoted to the war effort. The Victory Garden not only fed your family, it helped to save the world from evil tyrants and genocide. Victo

As soil health degrades the nutritional quality of our food also degrades. We used to say “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” but now to get the same nutrition from one apple we would need to an entire bag of apples. Food is becoming increasingly more expensive to buy, yet the quality continues to fall. If the nutrition is not available in the soil it cannot be incorporated into our food. Our health is suffering as our food supply suffers. How much worse is the nutrient de

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

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

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

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

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

What is Natural Farming Part 3 UNIQUE TO MASTER CHO Microbial soil health for Soil Foundation Directed Biochemistry based on the Nutritive Cycle SOIL FOUNDATION & MICROBES The basis for a living system is the soil. Having healthy, fertile soil is the basis for a healthy, fertile, ecosystem, whether it is in the wild or in a food production system. The foundation of health and fertility in the soil comes from the microbial ecology of the soil. In order to have a Soil Foundatio

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