Natural Farming Inputs
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🗓️ 19 June 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Besides IMO1-4+, what other inputs exist in natural farming? Marco shares a few, as well as how to make them in your garden.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are back with |
| 0:17.8 | Marco Thomas, a natural farmer. Yesterday we talked about inputs using the Jadam style of natural farming and today |
| 0:26.7 | We're going to be talking about a different set of inputs that we're just calling natural farming inputs right Marco |
| 0:35.3 | Yeah, I like you know kind of the Korean natural farming ones and the differences you have jedam which is mostly like we talked |
| 0:41.6 | about yesterday liquid and mold and the plant material. |
| 0:44.5 | And natural farming inputs are more fermented items. |
| 0:50.2 | FPJs, FFJs's many fermented plant juice or fermented fruit juice. |
| 0:57.0 | Sugar-based inputs. |
| 0:59.0 | Got it. Okay, so kind of closer towards the IMO style stuff we were talking about earlier. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, and really what it is now instead of that. |
| 1:09.0 | So in Jendom you took that tomato plant stalk and you just dropped it in the barrel with the water and |
| 1:15.3 | just let the microbes work on it like that. |
| 1:18.0 | Well if you did the same approach on with the natural farming input, you would take those tomato |
| 1:22.3 | stalks. Now you would take those tomato stalks now you would |
| 1:23.6 | chop them up now you would mix them with equal weight sugar put them in a jar with |
| 1:29.6 | the covered top and now that's going to be a fermented plant use which gets extracted out of that. |
| 1:37.4 | Got it and that's FPJ in the in the terminology right? |
| 1:42.0 | That's right yeah yeah, F. P.J. fermented plant juice. And what that does is now, what |
| 1:48.0 | just what the sugar is doing is taking the plant material and it's using the osmotic pressure of it and pulling juice out of the plant. |
| 1:57.7 | Juice, but then juice equals things like enzymes, plant extracts, you know, |
| 2:06.5 | amino acids, anything that was growing in that plant |
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