Fermented Plant Juice Workshop - Crooked Farmz
Sean Smith
Fermented Plant Juice
Sunday, April 19
6am-8am
$10/pwyc
One of the most important things we can do for young plants is to support the biochemical signals that drive early growth. Freshly germinated seedlings are primed to respond to plant growth regulators — the natural hormones that govern root development, cell division, stem elongation, and immune resilience. Getting these compounds into the plant’s environment early, before the stresses of the season accumulate, sets the foundation for everything that follows.
Fermented Plant Juice (FPJ) is a Korean Natural Farming preparation made from young plant tissues — grasses, weeds, early-season growth — chopped, mixed with brown sugar, and left to ferment for 7–14 days. The result is a naturally concentrated extract rich in plant growth regulators: auxins for root development and cell elongation, gibberellins for stem growth and seed germination, and cytokinins for cell division, leaf expansion, and delayed senescence.
In this Spring Field School session at Crooked Farmz, we will work through the theory and practice of FPJ — including KNF principles, optimization strategies, and application techniques — before harvesting in-season plants to make a collective ferment together. Participants will take home a small batch of FPJ to ferment at home for a week, ready to apply as a spring foliar. This early-morning “Sunday Breakfast Club” hands-on workshop will be followed by coffee and light refreshments.
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Sean
in agriculture, horticulture and arboriculture.