Jadam organic Farming & Gardening : The Way to Ultra-Low-Cost Agriculture, Make All-Natural Fertilizer, Pesticide and Microorganism Inputs Yourself

Grass grows with the apple trees from spring to autumn. Soil becomes more and more
fertile; fruits become sweeter; yield increases. Gihwal Bak’s organic apple farm, Yesan. 
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ment. It is the system chosen by virtually all creatures on Earth – from soil mi-
crobes to large animals – to digest the food they ingested. Korean traditional
food Kimchi is made through anaerobic process. Alcohol and yogurt are all cre-
ated anaerobically. As just explained, aerobic fermentation actually destroys vi-
tamins and amino acids. is is why it is never used in cooking. It is thus very
strange that somehow this process came to be regarded as the core of manufac-
turing all organic farming inputs. Anaerobic fermentation has been completely
defamed; people think it is something disgusting, bad and terribly wrong. is
could be no further from the truth. For thousands of years, we did farming
through anaerobic fermentation. is method minimized the loss of nutrients
and was very simple; all you needed was a jar or a container. 
It is frustrating that people think of Sir Albert Howard’s “An Agricultural
Testament” of the 1980s and similar books as the gospel of organic agriculture.
ey believe J. I. Rodale 
started
organic farming inspired by Howard’s book.
However, our history of organic farming began long before that. It is true that
“An Agricultural Testament” played a pivotal role in making into theory and
disseminating the Indian method of compost-making. Unfortunately, the work
made a serious mistake: it over-complicated the process of making farming in-
puts. It talks about working to increase aeration, turning to meet the optimum
moisture level, improving carbon to nitrogen ratio, adjusting pH, etc. ese, in
JADAM’s opinion, are too complicated, difficult and unnecessary. It seems that
Sir Howard had his focus not on the nutritional aspect but on eliminating odor.
He also overlooked the importance of making technology easy so that the pub-
lic can more readily accept it. 
In Asia, it was common to pile up agricultural by-products, crop residues,
wild grass, human manure, food waste and similar material, and then scatter
them in the ields whenever needed. ey became compost on the soil and en-
riched parts of the ield. e tragedy began when we disregarded our own tradi-
tion and only looked at organic farming from the West as the “developed”
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method. Farmers who are already brainwashed will ind it very hard to accept
JADAM’s anaerobic method. Aerobic fermentation makes necessary the use of
machinery – at least an electric air pump. Anaerobic processes do not need ma-
chines. en you might equip the air pump with a timer, a sensor to control the
temperature, a mixer to unify the fermentation condition throughout the ingre-
dient and even lights to stimulate photosynthetic microorganisms. It seems you
cannot farm without machines. Again, if you observe from a