- A Beginner's Guide to Korean Natural Farming (2nd Edition) is coming really soon. Hopefully by next week. I'll post some of the finished pages in the class. - Speaking of the class--I will be wrapping up those lessons as well...after those, I'd love your votes on which topics are most interesting for the coming season (we'll probably get to most of them eventually and there might be some cross-over anyway). Let me know what you'd find most interesting:

Wanted to share some behind the scenes for an upcoming IMO video. Here are a few pictures—I’ll keep the post updated as the pile progresses.

Finally, but better late than never, I get to give a litte impression of our garden. I hope the audio on that cell phone vid is okay. Many greetings from the other side of the Atlantic where many are closely observing what is happening in the U.S. and how they are going to look like after four years under the current administration. I was lucky to be a teaching assistant for the small German Department at Whitman College in Walla Walla back in 2004/5. Filled with great experiences and encounters with lovely folks I returned to Germany hoping to return to the U.S. one day. Unfortunately my memories don't quite match up with what I see on the news these days. So yeah, as Taylor pointed out, gardening is not only a question of subsistence, resilience, self-reliance, health and climate protection but, at times, also a good distraction from the crude attempts of undermining democracies not just in the U.S. but in Germany as well.

No it’s not a pile of wet dirt…it’s IMO4 - just got to making this batch. Weathers a bit colder here this week dropping into the 30s for the first time so we’ll see how long it takes to heat up!

Just wanted to share some things I have noticed this year since using KNF inputs on my garden. I think part of the fascination with KNF is the 'mystery' or mythos around it. 1. I had a large amount of volunteer tomatoes pop up. Even in places where I didn't plant tomatoes. I let some of them grow and gave them the same things I have everything else and they produced a high volume of tomatoes. Something I have never heard of with volunteers. 2. Once my summer squash and zucchini fizzled out in the past couple of weeks, they have both begun a whole new round of leaf growth and are putting on more fruit. Also something I've never seen before. These could just be coincidences or from my relatively short time gardening all on my own. But interesting none the less!