@Esper, I like your style. Nice grow. I found a lot of my natural methods I have been doing for decades are very much online with knf.
My favorite is stinky weed soup. When I pull my weeds I like to stuff them into a 5 gallon bucket. Top with urine and any wasted milk from my kids meals and cap with a lid. 3-4 weeks later it is a thick gravy like sludge. I like to pour it over my raised beds in the rain. Super stinky, and rich. It adds back the nutrients those weeds pulled out of my soil. Especially dandelions and blackberries.
I like to use IMO too. I found a layer of cardboard topped with local scavenged leaves is just as effective as burying the rice method. It looks exactly the same too, like chunky hairy whip cream. The cardboard gets engulfed like the rice with the white mycelium IMO growing in my area. Adding some char from the fire pit works great here too. The mycelium just loves the char. Recently I have started collecting the mole hole spoils (mounds) thinking the moles are IMO magnets. Then I sprinkle it into my beds. Those moles make underground highways and are constantly rubbing on the roots of various local plants.
As far as table scraps, instead of fermenting them I just toss them into one of my 2 compost tumblers. They seem to break down bones and meat and dairy no problem. I have 3 kids and they waste an infuriating amount of food. The tumblers are key if you put in dairy or meat in with the table scraps. Otherwise you are guaranteed to have rats. The tumblers are metal and round and in 17 years never had the rats get in them.
I bet we would have some interesting conversations over a bowl. Ha.
Nice to meet you.
Hell yea the best part about all this is that their are so many ways to harvest beneficials for your garden . Unlimited possibility’s that’s only limited by your imagination. as long as you stick to the principles then you really can’t fuck it up . I’ve been messing with this ferment of kudzu plant with one part lab and mix in what ever spent mycelium I have and alittle pee . Kudzu has a hormone in it that makes it grow super fast and tons of minerals. it’s an invasive plant that can grow up to a few feet a day. So I’ve been feeding the ladies alittle of that trying to get these plants to build off some of those hormones . I like your style too and I’m glad your not wasting food and putting it to good use keep on killing it!
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Also here’s a little about me and where I learned to apply all these methods and breed. This was our team just 4 of us in the garden and 3 in harvest. (Only half a room and we had six rooms) we hand watered these lady’s and I loved every minute of my time with the girls . Cheers to you
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You can post your pictures wherever you want.
Good morning @Esper snd @noddykitty1
I did some reading about KNF. I am excited to start trying and applying these principles. We have three compost piles and no food scraps go to waste. We have used this compost on our garden beds for a good 20 years and the change in the soil health is amazing. We also add our fireplace ash.
The fast growing “weeds” here are dandylions, thistles, catnip and sunflowers.
Now that I am retired I have more time to work in my indoor and outdoor gardens.
Best to you!
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I love catnip. I think it is one of the most underrated attractor for pollinators. It pulls more bees than just about any plant in my food forest except maybe mint. It does grow (or seed) like a weed though. I got it going in my green belt and the other weeds and natives seem to keep in check.
I love to add wood ash too. I usually load it up thru the off season with the fall leaves and yard shi*. Just sprinkled a bucket from the wood stove this morning w my coffee grounds in the beds. Happy growing.
@noddykitty1 Our place backs up to open space so I enjoy a lot of interesting plants showing up. Last summer a ton of hemlock. Since they produce poison berries, I pulled them as fast as I could identify them. I’ll be watching my granddaughter and don’t want her to try and eat them.
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Awesome to see like minded people on here !! You all are the best 
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Been running KNF for 5 years. Glad to see others doing the same.
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That awesome brother. What kind of yields do you get ? . I wouldn’t want to do it any other way .
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Nice!! Bet it’s tasty:3 what light and how long do you veg ?
Built mine. True 670w. Depends what I’m running.
Right on brother gonna check out your profile keep that knf alive !!
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Always gonna use dry amendments and ferments. No other way fur me to grow my meds!
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I started reading your thread about it.
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Love that!
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Seems to be more interest on the KNF and no till these days. My last thread kept getting harassed, so I just moved on. Went to another couple forums. No interest there.
Came back after a long, long break from forums. Stopped trying to teach n help, so I just stopped posting recipes and such. Now mostly pix in the Crimson Eyes
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Plant it around your house, under the eaves, to repel rodents
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Glad you are back! I am all about learning and trying to improve our backyard soil for our gardens. I actually let the bottom flat area fill in with the native grass behind us. Very drought tolerant and I am thinking about transplanting to our public facing area. If it stays mowed people only see green. No more water hungry grasses. Also taking out about a third of the area for a garden of native flowers and culinary herbs that do well here like sage and mint. Water prices are outrageous here!
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