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Am I eating Vegetables - Or Fruits??
Group:I love my vegetable garden, and I suspect you enjoy yours too. We eat one or two meals a day from our garden, and my wife Araksya is an outstanding cook when it comes to using fresh garden produce.Sometimes I'll look at a meal with 6 or 8 items...
Organic gardening Comparing the Mittleider Method with Commercial Growers
Q. How "Organic" or Natural is The Mittleider Method - Really! My question is, how organic are the pre-plant and weekly feeder mixes? With today's current market trends and people's general desire to move away from commercialized food sources, the m...
3 types of bush tomatoes garden 2009
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6 Steps to Successful Gardening
Mittleider Method6 Steps to Successful GardeningSource Food for Everyone FoundationGardening Nonprofit I. Choose the Location and Prepare the Soil 1. Direct Sunlight all day long 2. Locate a water source near the garden 3. Level ground – slight So...
How to make the Mittleider gardening preplant mix
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How to make ridges for your Mittleider soilbed
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Row three Mittleider organic garden
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Have you ever considered growing your own food?
”Are you kidding?? Why would I even think about growing a garden? I’m much too busy earning a living!” Let me give you a few reasons you SHOULD consider starting a garden: • Diesel costs $4 per gallon – Delivering your food is now twice as ...
Soil Mix & Ratios - Fertilizers to use and How Much
Soil Mix & Ratios - Fertilizers to use and How MuchAuthor: Jim KennardQ. I think what I need to know is, 1) what do I put in the soil mix and 2) proportions, as well as 3) what fertilizer to use and 4) proportions to mix in soil, plus 5) how much ...
Phase one Mittleider organic garden 2009
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Gardening seminars
We will be in Utah between February 15 and March 5, and would bewilling to conduct free gardening seminars during that time, if thereis sufficient interest by church congregations or community gardeninggroups.The preferred format is for a 4 hour semi...
Come on Spring
It is supposed to hit 54 degrees tomorrow come on spring. After 3 years of being a Mittleider gardener I am finally ready to make some income at gardening. Heck naturally grown red peppers sell for $7.99 per pound at the local green grocer. I am al...
Thank you for all your hard work
The article in the women's magazine was exciting! Great work.I also wanted to say thank you!. I live in Weston Idaho. This past year Iwas gone so much during the weeks but home on the weekends. I had plantedmy garden as a Mittlieder garden with the 3...
How to start a garden from scratch
How to Start a Garden from the BeginningHi Jim, I am inspired by your plan and your leadership on this forum. I amready to take the plunge and go Mittleider next year, but have no clue where tostart.I have plenty of land that has been vacant for 20 y...
How can I make my own Mittleider method fertilizer
I am a farmer from the philippines and will be using completely themittleider method. I just downloaded a copy of the MittleiderGardening Course and I'm also using an old Mittleider book, Grow-BedGardening.before I will fully implement this system, I...
How to plant a Mittleider garden on a hillside
I am gardening on a hillside. I just started digging and then I hit upon the idea of having terraces about two to three feet wide and then directly below that I dig a 12" trench for walking that is about a foot lower than the next terrace. Then walki...
Where can I get seeds for my garden?
Wondering if seeds will be hard to find next spring so want to stock up now.Thanks!!Group:You can get a #10 can of heirloom garden seeds from the Foundation, if you need or want that many. It's 22.5 ounces, will plant 6 tenths of an acre, and it cost...
Can I use seawater for my garden?
: Seawater is very stable at about 3.5% total mineral salts. However, water near the surface and near the shores is below that percentage.Furthermore, Dr. Murray diluted the seawater in his experiments;According to this document it appears he used 12...
Did you know plants use only inorganic minerals
I've never heard before that plants use only inorganic minerals. Is there a source from which to quote?Thanks,RitaRita & Group:There are probably a million sources for this knowledge, and perhaps other members of the Group can do a better job of fin...
Growing in the desert using the Mittleider method of sustainable gardening
I live in the southeast corner of Arizona at medium high elev. - about 3500' - desert. I just used the container method of the Mittleider Method of Gardening.We have lots of bugs, rabbits, javeline, birds and our own dogs.Before Mittleider I got thre...
12" wide grow boxes versus 18" wide grow boxes which are better and why?
What improvements were discovered when Dr.Mittleider switched from 12"wide grow boxes to 18" wide grow boxes?Syd_can & Group:Dr. Mittleider never did tell me much about his reasons for changing his recommendations in this measurement. He continued to...
Mittleider Organic or not?
Thank you for some wonderful advice! Just wanted to clarify some things you wrote in this email.My garden has become a focal point for the Master Gardeners in this area and I will be demonstrating the Mittleider Method to all of them next spring.I am...
How to help us spead the message about the Mittleider method of sustainable garden.
Knowledge of the Mittleider Method of sustainable gardening makes youone of the "vital few," and with that knowledge comes both opportunityand responsibility.In The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell describes how a few people canmake a tremendous positi...
Extending Your Growing Season - Both Spring & Fall
Today I want to assist many of you who are wondering how to extend your growing season for a few more weeks. For some it may be too late, as in high elevations like Randolph, Utah, where it was below freezing more than one night in August, but most ...
Simple and Inexpensive Mini-Greenhouses for Containers and Soil-Beds
It’s not too early to begin preparing for early spring planting! By covering your containers, which we call Grow-Boxes, or Soil-Beds with “Mini-Greenhouses” using PVC arches and greenhouse plastic, you can be in the garden with cool-weather pl...
What direction should I face my Greenhouse?
Q. In "Grow Bed Gardening," Dr. Mittleider says, "In the nothern hemisphere, face the length of the building east and west. This gives the broadside a southern exposure and all plants get the maximum light when the days are short and the sun is far...
Mittleider gardening books Now on CD & by Digital Download!
We are SO excited to announce the availability of 5 of the very important Mittleider gardening books, as well as his 9 Manuals, for digital down-load - right here on the FFEF website!You can now have instant access to The Mittleider Gardening Course,...
How To Save Crops From Freezing In Your Garden
Q. I have a farm in Afghanistan, which is about 30,000 squaremetres, in which mainly grapes are grown. In the cold winter thegrape vines are buried under the ground because of the very coldweather and then in the spring the vines are exposed to air a...
Preserving Your Garden Harvest - Eat Fresh for 4-6 Months!
Author: Jim KennardFolks, this one’s a keeper, so turn on your printer and save it in your gardening library.With cold weather soon upon us, everyone should be working to save your harvest, either by storing or preserving. Canning, drying, and free...
The history of the Food for Everyone Foundation
For the past 40 years and continuing into the foreseeable future, many thousands of hours of research, clinical and field experimentation have been conducted in 75 research, teaching, and demonstration projects in more than 20 countries throughout th...
