Certificates, the First Level 2, and the Group Photo
Drake Weinert, Pure KNF; organizer of the seminar
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This part runs from 53:10 to 1:22:36 of the session video.
Drake shows the CGNF Hawaiʻi website (a members' Q&A seeded from Facebook, and the certification list with this seminar on it), assigns cleanup chiefs, reads the certificate and hands them out with Cho and Kim Chang, the interpreter. Jason gets the first Level 2. The tape ends as everyone heads to the flag post for the group photo.
What he taught
How did the seminar close, and what did CGNF Hawaiʻi set up for the people who finished it?
The last 29 minutes of the seminar. No teaching. Drake, in an orange cap, puts the CGNF Hawaiʻi website on the projector, then runs the certificates from the front with Cho and Kim Chang, the interpreter, in a teal blouse, handing them over. The projector still shows a CGNF Hawaiʻi site post about the JADAM book during the certificate talk; nobody discusses it. The group photo was taken on the lawn right after the tape ends.
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CGNF Hawaiʻi's members' area now has a Q&A system, seeded with questions and answers from Facebook
Members ask questions, vote answers up or down, and see who answered. Drake wrote a script to import the Facebook threads. Asked whether Cho answers there: not yet; it has to be translated, and that bridge is still being built.
▶ 53:59 Shown in the room
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The certification site lists Level 3 'Nutrient Cycle, Makapala, October 21'
Graduates will be listed there, 'so we have an open system to know who is there'.
▶ 56:20 Shown in the room
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cgnfi.org (CGNF International) is for translating Cho's books together
Probably through a wiki, Drake says.
▶ 57:17 As spoken
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The certificate: completed the advanced seminar on the nutrient cycle, Oct 19–21, 2017, Makapala
'This is to certify that this natural farmer has completed the advanced seminar on nutrient cycle and CGNF farming philosophy, technology and its applications, conducted by Cho Global Natural Farming Hawaii, from October 19th to 21st, 2017, in Makapala, Hawaii.' Wording copied from the last training held there, with the nutrient-cycle line added.
▶ 1:00:06 As spoken
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Peggy and Ron gave a jar of honey to every participant
'Because you guys are so sweet.' One jar was set aside for Cho.
▶ 1:00:45 As spoken
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CGNF Hawaiʻi elections in December 2017; the group expects to seek a new president
Drake asks for leadership to grow Master Cho's vision. Members can find each other on the members' site; he finds email a poor tool.
▶ 1:02:43 As spoken
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Kim Chang, the interpreter, is thanked: 'We couldn't have done this without her'
Drake calls her 'Ms. Kim' (heard as 'Kim Chang'); she gets her own certificate.
▶ 1:10:17 As spoken
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Jason Reisslin gets the first Level 2 certificate
'Our first Level 2.' Surname spelling not confirmed.
▶ 1:12:48 As spoken
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Kim Chang reads out Drake's own certificate
'Here's to Eric Drake Weinert Jr.'
▶ 1:19:21 As spoken
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Out to the flag post for the group photo, 'same as last time'
The tape ends here; the photos were taken on the lawn a few minutes later.
▶ 1:22:23 As spoken
- Not teaching: this page is website news, admin and the ceremony.
- Many names were called over applause; spellings in the transcript are as heard, and several are uncertain.
- Cho speaks once (about 1:03:16) when he hears his name; his Korean wasn't captured, only the interpreter's joke about it.
- The certificate is one of completion for the advanced nutrient-cycle seminar, Oct 19–21, 2017, Makapala; it isn't a farm certification.
Next to Master Cho's books
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Agrees
The certificate is a completion certificate for the advanced seminar CGNF-Hawaiʻi's advanced training program says the same: a certificate of completion for advanced-level education, not a certification of you or your farm.
cho program advanced training, p. 1
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Jason named 'our first Level 2' The same document says CGNF-Hawaiʻi issued Level 2 certificates of competency, and that Level 2 holders could award Level 1 certificates.
cho program advanced training, p. 1
“So if we all bring our hearts together, we'll be there.”
▶ 1:03:14
“We couldn't have done this without her.”
▶ 1:10:17
In this part
- 53:10Drake: the Q&A site and the certification list
- 57:36Admin: cleanup chiefs
- 59:50What the certificate says; honey from Peggy and Ron
- 1:01:27Staying in touch; CGNF-Hawaiʻi elections in December
- 1:03:47How the ceremony will run
- 1:04:37Certificates handed out
- 1:12:47The first Level 2, and more certificates
- 1:19:17Drake gets his own certificate
- 1:20:50Side talk, then out to the flag post
Transcript
Transcribed and checked by hand against the recording.
53:11 Drake Weinert: Let's give it up for Master Cho, man. So we do need to go take a picture like that. So we got a few things we need to do. One of those is we need to take a picture because it's good to document everyone being here like this. And another thing I wanted to do just briefly here in a minute. I know the way I saw us clean up the kitchen, I know we're going to be super awesome when we're cleaning up everything else. So I just wanted to show you just real fast on this web page, which is Cho Global Natural Farming Hawaiʻi .org, CGNF Hawaiʻi .org.
53:55 Here, this is our organization's website with Master Cho. And if you're a member and you click on this members link here, it will take you into this other section that you have to be a valid member of our organization. But in here, just recently, there's now support questions here. and it says frequently asked questions which isn't exactly true still a work in progress but you click on this guy it will now take you to this whole question and answer system and the way this works is you can upload things good questions you can also bubble up good answers
54:33 and so why i was frustrated by facebook of just all the crazy things happening in there and this enables us as members to have a system where we can ask questions. So I know I asked you to pull all your questions. Sure. I was hoping this last section would be question and answer for us, but largely we have to ask a lot of them. But this here, go ahead and ask your questions here. This is so this is like our official channels that we can get those translated into answers from Master Cho, as well as weigh in with each other and have, of your name when you actually go to a question.
55:11 And so what I did right now is I imported all the questions from Facebook and went through the process of importing all the answers from Facebook into this group. So we're not just starting from scratch, because tons of these questions have already been answered. So it looks a little weird. It's because I just wrote a script to do this. But essentially, you can upvote questions or downvote or star. And then when you answer it, it'll say your name and each of us, you can find out who's who. Like what's my reputation and the answers and the questions I ask, which I didn't really ask that many.
55:46 I'm gonna probably change that to say Facebook or something. But this will kind of give us a platform we can start to get this flow so the same question doesn't always keep getting answered, which is largely, you know, we need to spread that out. So that's happening there. And then also here is the certification website that we have going, where if you go to the home page,
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