Knowledge Base

Recipes and the science behind them — split into Fertilizers, Food, and Beverage.

Master Cho & KNF ferment recipes — grouped by when your plants need them.

Start here — Master Cho's Nutritive Cycle

The heartbeat of Natural Farming — feed a plant the right nutrient at the right stage, and never more than it needs.

Vegetative growth

Bio-stimulant (Stinging Nettle)

A nettle brew fermented with Mountain Microorganisms — a wake-up tonic for weak, stunted plants that have stalled in their growth.

Grow (N)

Fermented Plant Juice

FPJ

Sugar-pulled sap of fast-growing plant tips — a living enzyme tonic that pushes young plants to grow fast and strong.

Grow (N)

Fish Amino Acid

FAA

Fish scraps dissolved by sugar into a nitrogen-rich amino-acid liquid that plants drink directly and microbes love.

Grow (N)

Hydrolysate

High-protein scraps smashed up and slow-fermented with LAB Serum and molasses into an amino-acid-rich tonic — fertiliser and biostimulant in one barrel.

Grow (N)All stages

Cross-over / flowering

Fermented Fruit Juice

FFJ

An artificial honey pulled from ripe fruit by sugar — a nutritional activation enzyme that carries crops through flowering and into fruit.

Flower (P)Fruit (K)

Mineral-enriched Bio-ferments

A Bio-ferment supercharged on its fifth day with a single mineral, then rested — a stable of bio-minerals you blend into custom tonics for flowering, fruiting and recovery.

Flower (P)Fruit (K)

Water-Soluble Calcium

WCA

Eggshell calcium melted into brown rice vinegar — the firming mineral that hardens fruit, curbs overgrowth, and sweetens the harvest.

Flower (P)Fruit (K)

Water-Soluble Calcium Phosphate

WCP

Bone charcoal dissolved in brown rice vinegar — calcium and phosphorus together to power the changeover and strengthen flower buds.

Flower (P)

Water-Soluble Phosphoric Acid

WS-PA

Phosphorus percolated from sesame-stem charcoal — the sour changeover mineral that flips a plant from growing to flowering.

Flower (P)

Reproductive / fruiting

Seawater & Fermented Seawater

SW

Surface seawater, aged a day to catch airborne microbes — a full mineral bath that sweetens fruit and energizes soil and stock.

Fruit (K)All stages

Water-Soluble Potassium

WS-K

Potassium leached from tobacco stems — the fruiting and coloring mineral that fills and finishes the harvest.

Fruit (K)

Backbone (all stages)

Bio-ferment

Biole

A sealed brew of milk, cow dung and molasses worked on by Mountain Microorganisms — a microbial soup the leaves drink straight in to bring tired crops back to life.

All stages

Bio-repellent

A pungent ferment of garlic, chilli, onion and ginger — its strong smell and taste drive off caterpillars, borers, sucking insects and fungal disease.

All stages

Biofertilizer

Manure, basalt, wood ash and yeast fermented under an airlock into bioactivated minerals — a customisable liquid fertiliser you can blend to your soil test.

All stagesSoil

Brown Rice Vinegar

BRV

Rice wine turned to vinegar by acetic-acid bacteria — a mild acid that sterilizes, thickens leaves, and unlocks calcium.

All stages

Indigenous Microorganisms

IMO

Wild soil microbes trapped on rice, fed sugar, bulked with bran, then married to your own soil — the living engine that builds fertile ground.

SoilAll stages

LAB Serum

LABS

A living Lactobacillus culture captured from rice-wash and fed on milk — a base inoculant, part EM, that works soils, plants, and every ferment downstream.

All stagesSoil

Lactic Acid Bacteria

LAB

Rice-water microbes fed on milk into a yellow serum that opens up the soil, solubilizes phosphate, and swells fruit and leaf.

All stagesSoil

Mountain Microorganisms

MM

Wild forest microbes gathered on rice bran and molasses, then multiplied into a living soil-building solution that powers every other ferment on the farm.

SoilAll stages

Oriental Herbal Nutrient

OHN

Fermented garlic, ginger and cinnamon — an aromatic tonic that warms plants, sterilizes, and drives vigorous growth at every stage.

All stages

Yeast Culture

Wild yeast cultured off fruit skins — the finisher of fermentation that rebuilds vitamins, hormones and vigor in weak or storm-hit plants.

All stages

Soil & compost

Bokashi

A fast, layered compost fermented by Mountain Microorganisms — a rich, safe solid fertilizer that restores soil life and drives vigorous, high-yielding crops.

Soil

Loess Powder

Fine mineral clay floated out of loess or anthill soil — trace elements and a quiet healing power for seedlings and leaves.

Soil

Seed/Seedling (SES) & Soil (SOS) Treatment

SES / SOS

Two Natural Farming baths — one to wake a seed's natural vitality, one to condition an acre of soil before planting.

Soil

SPICE Compost Inoculant

A hessian teabag of green leaf, blood-and-bone and bran brewed in molasses, seawater and LAB Serum — the microbe crew that runs a no-turn compost pile.

Soil
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