yeah but that is after you've completed the road between the deep forest and farmstead... so his visits doesn't count as part of that story event because it's repeatable.
The fact that he thought how to progress the war quest without Korg and not the country road quest makes me think he simply forgot about this possibility: I mean, Korg is cited only two times and at the end when he meets Ste for the first time, so he's not relevant to the story like in the orc's war.