n KNF, formulas are designed to guide plant growth, using Fermented Plant Juices (FPJ) as the active ingredient. Plants are lightly misted, no more than once per week. Leaf tip FPJs are used for vegetative growth, green fruit FPJs for fruit development, and so on. The patterns are straightforward and easy to follow. Unless your plant lacks distinct growing phases. Some have vegetative growth, flowering, and fruit, all happening on the same plant at the same time. How do you u

This series of articles on How to Start KNF is not meant to give you recipes. It’s meant to teach you how to cook. So far, we have covered the basics on how to start practicing KNF. This is a quick review of the basics before we cover more advanced concepts. Level one of How to Start KNF focuses on setting up the systems. It’s about setting goals, learning skills, and starting things that take time to be ready for use. IMO is the foundation of the soil, and the foundation of

The part of the plant and stage of development determine what biological response the signal promotes. For example, tender leaf tips direct leaf growth, underdeveloped fruit directs fruit development, and ripe fruit promotes ripening. Fermented Plant Juice (FPJ) is prepared through a series of steps designed to extract, preserve, and stabilize plant biochemical signals for storage and use. Each step serves a specific purpose in the fermentation cycle. Successful FPJ begins wi

I had to throw away my first Fermented Plant Juice (FPJ), and I was doing everything right. Once I identified the cause, the solution was simple, and it changed how I teach fermentation. We know we want to create an input that signals our crops what to do, whether that’s green vegetative growth or ripening fruit, so that we get crops with better quality and higher yields. That’s what a Fermented Plant Juice (FPJ) does. As a Master Cho certified teacher of Korean Natural Farmi

The purpose of Fermented Plant Juices (FPJ) is to capture and preserve the biochemical profile (hormones, enzymes, and cofactors) to direct growth using Biochemical Signaling Technology. Plant material is collected and fermented at defined growth stages, then applied to crops to trigger corresponding growth responses. FPJ directs plant growth. It is important to clean (rack) and store FPJ properly to preserve these qualities. Racking, or separating the fermented serum (FPJ) f

I made an FPJ of this herb for personal use. It is documented in a video on our YouTube channel: Natural Farming Field Notes. I follow Korean Natural Farming (KNF) techniques and the Hawaiian Lunar Calendar. This guide is extensive and meant to serve as a reference. As an adaptogen, Tulsi is a plant that helps the body adapt to stress and restore balance. As an FPJ or tonic, tulsi may act as an adaptogen, balancing the immune system of plants just like it does for humans.

In Nature, plants grow abundantly without applied fertilizers. They do so through circular, self-reinforcing systems that recycle nutrients, build organic matter, and make minerals biologically available. These systems run on living soil. When they are intact, fertility is generated internally rather than imported from the outside. Farmers who grow food without fertilizers, whether on small plots or broad-acre land, share this same foundation. They begin by establishing biolo

You want to apply once a week (no more) at the right time of day. Apply the misted formulas an hour (or two) before sunset. This avoids using the inputs during photosynthesis (when the plants cannot utilize the formula's biochemistry), it avoids the heat of the day, and it gives the moisture time to evaporate, so that plants don’t go to bed wet, which can entice molds and blights to form. There are two ways you can set up your weekly chores to apply BST. When I started using

Korean Natural Farming (KNF) is a systems technology to grow food in ways that mimic Nature. In this series for beginners, we have already looked at Fermented Plant Juice (FPJ), and we learned about the Nutritive Cycle and how to use FPJs to follow the patterns of the life cycle of plants. Now we deepen our understanding of the system by creating a basic formula to apply at each different stage of growth. We are developing a system. In order to mimic Nature, we always want to

Korean Natural Farming (KNF) is a systems technology. We learned what Fermented Plant Juice (FPJ) is, then we learned about the Nutritive Cycle and how to use FPJs to follow the patterns of the life cycle of plants. Before we look at making formulas, let’s look closer at making the FPJs. e give plants what we want them to do. Therefore, we collect the plant material that is doing the function we want to apply. With vegetative leaf growth, we use fast-growing leaf tips. For de

Biochemical Signaling Technology (BST) follows the Nutritive Cycle using Fermented Plant Juices (FPJ) as an active ingredient in formulas designed for each phase. Specific FPJs are made to signal plants to develop growth in the specific phase of growth because of the hormones, enzymes, and cofactors found in each specific FPJ. SEEDLING The seedling still has the seed leaf (cotyledon) and needs to utilize that embryonic nutrition to trigger the genetics that will grow a health

In order to apply Biochemical Signaling Technology (BST) properly, we first need to understand the Nutritive Cycle, the lifecycle of plants. UNDERSTANDING THE NUTRITIVE CYCLE PHASES SEEDLING Once a seed sprouts, it is called a seedling. The seed leaves at this stage serve the function analogous to the placenta in mammals and the egg yolks of birds. They provide the nutrition the seedling needs to establish roots and grow true leaves that will enable the young plant to start p

Noni flower and forming fruit These seven Core Elements summarize the practice of Korean Natural Farming (KNF) as a comprehensive system...

1. Soil Foundation using IMO Technology Establish a living soil by using cultivated Indigenous Microorganisms (IMO) that restore and sustain natural soil function and fertility. This allows plants to live in their Natural State, drawing nutrition on demand through symbiotic relationships with soil biology. As in Nature, balanced nutrition leads to fewer pests and disease, improved health, quality, nutrition, and increased yields.

Water is divided into two solutions: one for diluting and activating the IMO-2 and the other for diluting the Liquid Nutrient.

This is something you can grow. It takes two to three years to get the roots, so the sooner you start them, the better. There are several sp

It’s spring in the northern hemisphere. It’s the perfect time to start growing Mugwort, the best plant for making Fermented Plant Juice (FPJ

You don’t need to have every KNF input available to start KNF. I recommend only the most important ones, as well as starting the ones that t

You’ve decided you want to try KNF, Korean Natural Farming. You probably feel confused and overwhelmed. I get it. I am here to simplify and

there are simple steps to take which greatly improve a plant's ability to be healthy, resilient against all weather conditions,pests, and di