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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

What Is Korean Natural Farming?

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Steven Cornett of Nature's Always Right is back on the podcast! He's been experimenting with KNF, or Korean Natural Farming a lot lately. I brought him on to enlighten all of us as to what he's learned and its impact on the farm. Connect with Steven Instagram YouTube Facebook  Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, will be out May 7, 2019. If you pre-order the book and forward your receipt to kevin@epicgardening.com, I'll send you a free pack of heirloom, organic seeds from one of my favorite seed suppliers! Pre-Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon 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

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the epic gardening podcast. Kevin here and I'm

0:04.7

back with my friend Stephen Cornette of Nature's Always Right. Now today is a

0:09.2

really cool episode because a couple of months ago I would say I started seeing on Stephen's

0:14.4

Instagram and his YouTube these potions. There were a bunch of different

0:18.2

potions and contraptions that he had been making. I was like what is is he up to? And it turns out he was working on something

0:24.8

called Korean natural farming, which is still a method of growing that I'm relatively new to and have not

0:32.3

had any direct experience with yet but I've been watching

0:35.1

Stephen Do It's been really fascinating and then I've been hearing sort of through the grapevine

0:39.5

The origins of it how it got started and why why it's an effective way to garden and even farm.

0:46.0

And so I'm going to let Stephen come in, like I said, I don't have any experience, so I'm going to have

0:49.2

Stephen come in and just drop as much knowledge as you can about it.

0:51.8

So Stephen, can you tell us a little bit about KNF?

0:54.6

So yeah, Korean Natural Farming is something that I had heard about for years,

0:59.5

but never had the time for it or just kind of wrote it off for a while. But, you know, more recently,

1:05.2

last like six months I've really dove pretty deep into it and there's definitely something there. There's definitely,

1:18.0

it's definitely a world we need to explore, I believe, especially in the regenerative farming movement. So, Korean Natural Farming was created in the 1960s by a man named Master Cho and he's a Korean guy of course and now

1:28.2

his son and grandson have even taken these methods even further.

1:33.8

And his son created another Korean system called Jadam,

1:38.0

which has a lot of different, even like pesticides

1:40.9

and it goes even further into managing farms in an organic way.

1:47.0

But speaking about Korean natural farming, which is kind of a separate entity,

1:51.0

basically it's the idea that we can create all the nutrients that we need for

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