It was a 420 Magazine member @MerryAnna who first introduced me to the techniques of Korean Natural Farming and a website created by Gil Carandang that provided excellent guides to making the DIY ferts and soil conditioners etc. That site, The Unconventional Farmer (dot com) was legendary, and then it disappeared completely sometime in 2017.
I used the website a lot during my first grow and still use some of the tech in the non-canna garden (and for any canna plants not grown in Doc’s High Brix kit) and have been wishing the site was still in existence.
In a brilliant turn of events, someone has reproduced it, nearly in full, a group of bio-dynamic farmers from Oregon in fact.
All the recipes and guides are there: an incredible resource for soil growers. Some of you might recognise the LABs and DIY Calphos recipe , now you’ll know the sources. I’m not saying that Gil Carandang, was the first to ever do all this, it comes from Korean Natural Farming practices that are no doubt very old, but AFAIK he was the first to thoroughly document it online, some years ago
I will link to all of the guides reproduced there and for the sake of preserving the info I will hopefully reproduce each of the guides here as well (have to check out if that’s ok - might not be).
The person who reproduced it there says the following:
I will echo all that and thank Clay profusely, whoever they are, for bringing it back. These methods can be very useful in an organic and/or biodynamic garden! Especially the Lactobaciullus Serum
Each guide will get it’s own post and I’ll link them here:
NB: I am not an expert in any of this and I I certainly haven’t used all of these - but I have used quite a few, and know that others used the original site as a resource as well. I hope that it continues to be a resource for many.
I used the website a lot during my first grow and still use some of the tech in the non-canna garden (and for any canna plants not grown in Doc’s High Brix kit) and have been wishing the site was still in existence.
In a brilliant turn of events, someone has reproduced it, nearly in full, a group of bio-dynamic farmers from Oregon in fact.
Unconventional Farmer | Unconventional
www.unconventionalfarmsupply.com
All the recipes and guides are there: an incredible resource for soil growers. Some of you might recognise the LABs and DIY Calphos recipe , now you’ll know the sources. I’m not saying that Gil Carandang, was the first to ever do all this, it comes from Korean Natural Farming practices that are no doubt very old, but AFAIK he was the first to thoroughly document it online, some years ago
I will link to all of the guides reproduced there and for the sake of preserving the info I will hopefully reproduce each of the guides here as well (have to check out if that’s ok - might not be).
The person who reproduced it there says the following:
This page is dedicated to www.theunconventionalfarmer.com which is currently no longer online since 2017. I cannot take any credit beyond collecting and reposting information as a way to insure that this important knowledge is not lost to the ethers. This information was given away freely on the website and I wanted to insure this resource to stay in the public consciousness. - Clay
I will echo all that and thank Clay profusely, whoever they are, for bringing it back. These methods can be very useful in an organic and/or biodynamic garden! Especially the Lactobaciullus Serum
Each guide will get it’s own post and I’ll link them here:
Introduction
Lactobacillus
Bokashi Composting
BIM
Calphos
Homemade Fish Fertilizer
Bloom Fertilizer
IMMUBOOST
Ginger Garlic extract
Neem Extract
Animal Feed Bokashi part 1
Coco Compost
Animal Feed Bokashi part 2
Worm Composting
Cockroach Composting
Biochar
Cover Crops
SST - Sprouted Seed Tea
Grow Fertilizer
As the BD farmer from Oregon states, none of this is my work. The original website was by Gil Carnadang and these excellent folks form Oregon have reposted and preserved it and I’m simply doing that over here - so if their website ever goes down, we still have this info. Lactobacillus
Bokashi Composting
BIM
Calphos
Homemade Fish Fertilizer
Bloom Fertilizer
IMMUBOOST
Ginger Garlic extract
Neem Extract
Animal Feed Bokashi part 1
Coco Compost
Animal Feed Bokashi part 2
Worm Composting
Cockroach Composting
Biochar
Cover Crops
SST - Sprouted Seed Tea
Grow Fertilizer
NB: I am not an expert in any of this and I I certainly haven’t used all of these - but I have used quite a few, and know that others used the original site as a resource as well. I hope that it continues to be a resource for many.