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.
Fermented Plant Juice
FPJSugar-pulled sap of fast-growing plant tips — a living enzyme tonic that pushes young plants to grow fast and strong.
Fish Amino Acid
FAAFish scraps dissolved by sugar into a nitrogen-rich amino-acid liquid that plants drink directly and microbes love.
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.
Cross-over / flowering
Fermented Fruit Juice
FFJAn artificial honey pulled from ripe fruit by sugar — a nutritional activation enzyme that carries crops through flowering and into fruit.
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.
Water-Soluble Calcium
WCAEggshell calcium melted into brown rice vinegar — the firming mineral that hardens fruit, curbs overgrowth, and sweetens the harvest.
Water-Soluble Calcium Phosphate
WCPBone charcoal dissolved in brown rice vinegar — calcium and phosphorus together to power the changeover and strengthen flower buds.
Water-Soluble Phosphoric Acid
WS-PAPhosphorus percolated from sesame-stem charcoal — the sour changeover mineral that flips a plant from growing to flowering.
Reproductive / fruiting
Seawater & Fermented Seawater
SWSurface seawater, aged a day to catch airborne microbes — a full mineral bath that sweetens fruit and energizes soil and stock.
Water-Soluble Potassium
WS-KPotassium leached from tobacco stems — the fruiting and coloring mineral that fills and finishes the harvest.
Backbone (all stages)
Bio-ferment
BioleA 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.
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.
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.
Brown Rice Vinegar
BRVRice wine turned to vinegar by acetic-acid bacteria — a mild acid that sterilizes, thickens leaves, and unlocks calcium.
Indigenous Microorganisms
IMOWild soil microbes trapped on rice, fed sugar, bulked with bran, then married to your own soil — the living engine that builds fertile ground.
LAB Serum
LABSA living Lactobacillus culture captured from rice-wash and fed on milk — a base inoculant, part EM, that works soils, plants, and every ferment downstream.
Lactic Acid Bacteria
LABRice-water microbes fed on milk into a yellow serum that opens up the soil, solubilizes phosphate, and swells fruit and leaf.
Mountain Microorganisms
MMWild forest microbes gathered on rice bran and molasses, then multiplied into a living soil-building solution that powers every other ferment on the farm.
Oriental Herbal Nutrient
OHNFermented garlic, ginger and cinnamon — an aromatic tonic that warms plants, sterilizes, and drives vigorous growth at every stage.
Yeast Culture
Wild yeast cultured off fruit skins — the finisher of fermentation that rebuilds vitamins, hormones and vigor in weak or storm-hit plants.
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.
Loess Powder
Fine mineral clay floated out of loess or anthill soil — trace elements and a quiet healing power for seedlings and leaves.
Seed/Seedling (SES) & Soil (SOS) Treatment
SES / SOSTwo Natural Farming baths — one to wake a seed's natural vitality, one to condition an acre of soil before planting.
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.