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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

JADAM: The Ultra-Low Cost Farming & Gardening Method

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

This week we welcome two very special guests all the way from Korea - the founder of JADAM, Youngsang Cho, and his daughter, Sunyoung Cho. In this episode, we discuss the history and basics of JADAM and Korean Natural Farming. Connect With Youngsang Cho: Youngsang Cho,The president of JADAM, started organic farming in Korea in 1989. He learned natural farming from his father, Hankyu Cho who founded Korean Natural Farming (KNF). Based on his father's farming and Asian traditional farming, he founded JADAM (meaning "People that resemble nature")  in 1991. He has developed a number of core technologies necessary for popularizing organic farming. JADAM, which leads Ultra-Low-Cost agriculture, is the largest organic farming organization with more than 75,000 members in South Korea. Website Instagram YouTube Buy Youngsang Cho’s JADAM books Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the podcast my friends this is going to be a very special week on the

0:16.0

podcast as I have an art guest someone that I have been hoping to speak to for quite

0:21.6

some time over the years I've heard of both Korean natural farming and jadam from

0:27.2

friends of mine and young song chow is on the podcast with his daughter son young chow as

0:32.0

translator so we're actually speaking across countries we're speaking from america to career right

0:37.7

now i'm really honored young song to have you on the podcast hello i'm young song chow thank you

0:51.0

for inviting us i'm really honored to be here with a very famous youtuber and then i hope

0:57.2

this podcast can give you more information about us and then answer your questions yes so i

1:03.7

think where to begin for me is what is jadam for those of us maybe in america we're growing in

1:12.5

different methods that maybe are somewhat expensive or just more traditional american styles of

1:18.3

gardening how would you describe jadam for a beginner uh that uh jadam before we were

1:24.8

our father in kye so korea natural farming that 167 years ago started 32 years ago after military

1:33.6

service i uh finished a military service and i learned kanev directly from my father hanky chow

1:41.2

so that's what we're doing right now uh i'm going to go to korea and i'm going to go to korea and i'm going to go to korea

1:48.2

uh so after i started learning kanev and apply kanev methods on my farm i uh and then after i

2:08.2

follow for a few solver ears i want to try to improve more from that method because i want to make

2:16.0

something neutral of course that every farmer in the world can follow and and so and then my

2:24.0

eye major in chemistry so i taught maybe i can improve my uh use my major into the agriculture to

2:30.7

make uh farmers to study more easily um so the uh uh hwang nongyak and kyeonjua

2:40.0

uh kyeonjua natural farming

2:50.1

so i try my best to make natural pesticide which can depress the chemical pesticide and then

2:57.2

create a natural cause of agriculture i understand so in a general um

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