Sustainable Gardening Non-Profit changing the world one garden at a time.

The Food for Everyone Foundation's purposes includes teaching sustainable organic gardening, we encourage and assist in developing self-sufficiency in the production of food among people throughout the world by sponsoring, teaching and training classes and seminars; providing financial assistance to worthy and needy students; and by assisting in providing materials, equipment, tools, seed, and fertilizers needed for trained students to achieve gardening success in their own communities.

(Jim) Kennard, the President of the Foundation, has a wealth of leadership, financial, business, teaching, and gardening training and experience upon which to draw in helping the Foundation to achieve its goals.

Jim has been a Mittleider gardener for the past thirty years, he is a Master Mittleider Gardening Instructor, and has taught classes and worked one-on-one with Dr. Jacob Mittleider on several gardening projects in the USA and abroad.

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Sustainable organic garden 2009

OUCH tomato blight hit big time the whole east coast if I had not been using the Mittleider method the whole crop would have died, I would say the harvest equaled just a regular garden versus 5-10 times the yield., thankfully the Peppers did very well. Next year I am going to plant hybrid tomatoes which are blight resistant
I feel bad for the farmers most of all.
More to come,

UPDATE the beds are a done to perfection watch for many videos this year.
Planted everything on Memorial Day

I have learned so much over the last three years and am very grateful to the Foundation.

Lessons learned.
1. Make 100% sure your soilbeds or grow boxes are level.
2. Do not give up on a garden even if there is 3 hail storms in a 40 day period.
3. Prepare for lots of produce to sell donate or give away. (I had so much even with the storms)
4. Use Tframes for the Tomatoes, Melons and Cucumbers
5. Automate the watering system (1 inch of water per bed per day)
6. Water in the morning about 7am
7 Grow more berries in the back garden. (Two 20 foot soil beds)

Steve's garden 2008

Well this year was fun, I went to the local Green Grocer Store and they are selling Red Peppers for $7.99 per pound looks like I will be growing lots of them next year. I am also going to try growing Saffron.

Update 11/04/2008
Well it has been a great gardening season. Next year I will be using Tframes and also creating mini greenhouses. This will allow me to start my gardening season May 1 and end it Oct 31'st I will be taking temperature measurements in the greenhouses along the way.

Update 10/11/08

I am doing my final harvest today the storms were a challenge this year. I was able to help ten families in my town feed their families all season long. It was great to see the relief on the parents face when I would drop off enough vegetables for two weeks. Many of us take food for granted, there are millions of families who do not. Next year consider helping a family or two in your neighborhood.

Update 8/1/08
Four storms in the last 30 days big ones trees down, pepper plants on their sides, OUCH,ouch, ouch if it was not for using the Mittleider nutrients the stems would have broken, some harm done but I can save the garden thanks to the strength of the plants.
TY Dr. Mittleider

Update (Memorial Day) all seedlings are in the ground, I mixed in the pre plant mix into the soil then worked it in as I was leveling the beds.

Planted a total of 110 seedling in 90 feet of Soil beds. Applied one application of weekly feed before I added 1 inch of water per bed. Making sure you beds are level is very important to water conservation and equal distribution of nutrients each week. You can never make up for poor soil bed setup. So do it right the first time.

Sweet Peppers

Red Beauty
Luigi
Havana
Big Bertha
Cubanelle (Green)sweet Italian frying pepper. AWESOME you have to grow these.
Admiral (Orange)

Green Pepper non sweet Lady Bell

Hot Peppers
Cherry Hot Peppers
Ancho
Jalapeno

TOMATOES
Better Boy
Brandywine
Beefsteak
EarlyGirl
Viva Italia
Lemon Boy

Mellon's

Cantalope Muskmelon
Cantalope Hales Best
Mini Watermelons

Berries
Blueberries
Strawberries
Rasberries
Blackberries
(I am going to make more berry plants by doing "softwood cuttings" You simply cut off new growth dip them into rooting homrmone and plant them in a planter. Next year you will have new plants ready to fruit.

Misc.
Broccoli Premium Crop
Cucumbers Bush Pickle
Cukes Burpless
Brussels sprout Jade Cross

Steve

Fellow gardeners the yields really are 5-10 times a traditional garden the key is following the directions to the letter. A good example is leveling your soil beds. Did you know there can only be an inch variance in level in a 30 foot bed? Why so exact you might ask, Because the beds being level allows for equal distribution of the nutrients and water. This also is the reason we use much LESS water then a traditional garden. If you follow the setup correctly your soil beds or growboxes become a work of living art.

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Jim Kennard, President
Food For Everyone Foundation
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For the past 38 years and continuing into the 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 the world - including conditions from sea level to 7,300' elevation, the equator to 54 degrees North latitude and 25 degrees South latitude. Soil types encountered have included virtually everything from straight sand to hard clay; PH has ranged from 4.4 to 8.9; and rainfall has varied from 8" to 140". This base of experience gives the foundation a unique ability to broadly replicate past successes into many more countries and locations.

Historically, approximately 5,000 students have been trained in 75 projects, with limited materials and meager funding. These 5000 students have then taught others, the ultimate "pay it forward" This pay it forward process means tens of thousands have learned the Mittleider method.

Previous projects have been in Russian commonwealth countries, Latvia, four nations in Africa, Mexico, Honduras, Trinidad & Tobago, FIJI, Tonga, Okinawa, Papua New Guinea, New Britain, Canada, and the USA, plus others. The foundation's goal is to expand the program worldwide.

Jim will be returning from Columbia in April 2008 look for more news soon.

Free gardening instructional materials are available, including a Gardening Basics e-book, hundreds of Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's), a gardening Group, greenhouse and automated watering plans, and a free chapter from each of the 7 different gardening books.

The website receives more than a thousand visitors per day, and has a reputation as one of the best on vegetable gardening. Work is presently being done to expand and improve the website presence, including adding a condensed Gardening Course for both soil-bed and container gardening.

Demonstration/Model Garden - SLC, Utah: A large garden has been grown and maintained to show the 860,000 annual visitors to Utah's Hogle Zoo how to grow a beautiful and highly productive vegetable garden in a small space.

Donation of Gardening Teaching and Training materials: Books, CD's, software, and videos valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars have been donated to school teachers, orphanages, community groups, and others in many countries, to assist in teaching people how to grow healthier and more productive food crops.

Humanitarian Training Projects: On-site training and financial assistance have been provided to community gardening projects in the countries of Armenia and Georgia. The Georgia project is teaching 120 families using three large greenhouses and three one-hectare garden plots. Early reports indicate substantial yield increases over traditional methods.

In Armenia 25 families were trained and assisted. Participating families report excellent on-going tomato production at the same time their neighbors have no tomatoes at all. In addition, the Foundation's Gardening Training Center in the Shirak Region of Armenia was used to teach and demonstrate outstanding gardening production to many nearby residents.
--
Jim Kennard, President
Food For Everyone Foundation
"Teaching the world to grow food one family at a time."

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In developing nations:

854 million people are hungry.

820 million people are undernourished.

1 billion people live on less than $1/day.

146 million children under age 5 are underweight.

10 million children under age 5 die every year, over half of hunger-related causes.

1 in 6 people is hungry.

1 in 6 people lacks safe drinking water.

In industrialized/developed nations:

9 million people are undernourished.

In transitional nations:

28 million people are undernourished.

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1. The program teaches truly sustainable methods for raising a wealth of food crops in virtually any soil, in almost any climate or season, and at practically any elevation-in other words, under almost any conditions.

2. The program uses scientific principles and procedures, has been tested and proven in many countries over the course of 40+ years, and is not a passing fad. It carefully teaches and demonstrates the best known agricultural procedures.

3. The program is simple in that almost anyone can learn it and carry it out, either in home gardens or on large acreages. And the basics can be learned well enough to grow highly productive gardens even by people who cannot read or write.

4. For large field-crop operations, the program tests and balances the soil regularly and applies natural mineral nutrients as needed for it to produce almost any kind of crops, even many crops traditionally considered unsuitable for growing in a particular climate. In home gardens, a complete, balanced natural mineral nutrient mix is used, which requires no soil test and feeds plants properly.

5. The program uses any available organic materials that are disease, insect, and weed-free, including freshly harvested crop residue, green-manure, and cover crops; but this program is different than some that are commonly referred to as complete organic gardening methods. Additional natural mineral nutrient fertilizers are used to build up a complete balance in the soil - in other words, to restore the soil to its original Edenic composition as far as possible. It is often referred to as "the best of organic gardening".

6. Weeds are taboo in Foundation garden beds, aisles, and perimeters. They are simply not permitted anywhere in the Foundation's gardens or fields.

7. Practically every foot of space is made productive. This makes for a very economical and efficient gardening operation, as it requires no more effort or expense to create and maintain such gardens than traditionally cultivated areas. Even small garden plots can thus produce very large yields.

8. To produce healthy, fast-growing, disease and pest-free (in other words almost perfect) plants, Foundation-trained growers grow seedlings of many varieties in a greenhouse that is kept free of insects, weeds, and diseases.

9. The program produces commercial-quality plants of uniform size, color, and quality in all stages of growth; with very low mortality rates.

10. Each plant is given individual attention as needed, even to surrounding it with an insecticidal ring of sawdust in extreme situations, such as if cutworms are present in the garden. Also, if garden soils carry disease, healthy greenhouse transplants are protected by a liquid fungicidal shield. And in all cases a starter natural mineral nutrient minimizes transplant shock and assists the plant until normal growth takes over.

11. Where no soil is available, "custom" soil is manufactured with a combination of as much as 75% of any combination of sawdust, rice hulls, coffee hulls, peat moss, ground-up bark, or even ground-up coconut husks or pine needles and the balance of sand, or if necessary other available clean, disease-free soil.

12. On very rare occasions where necessary, the entire garden may be sterilized of insect life, diseases, and noxious weeds. This process has previously been accomplished by fumigating the area under plastic covers with methyl bromide gas. Recently this has become largely unavailable, and steam or flame is used if possible.

13. The program makes drastic changes in primitive farming methods encountered so many places around the world by introducing scientific agricultural methods, modern equipment, and all the natural mineral fertilizers called for by accurate soil testing, often increasing yields by ten times.

14. This new program consistently produces fantastically abundant crops that are neatly uniform in quality, size, and color.

15. Foundation-inspired gardens are a financial success, with yields typically increased five to ten times. They are actually saving millions of people in over 30 countries from slow starvation, and have raised educational and hospital institutions from failure and threatened closure to financial security.

16. Gardens are organized and laid out uniformly and symmetrically, and all crops are planted in straight lines or pleasing curves, resulting in gardens and fields of park-like beauty.

17. Whenever a plant shows discoloration, wilting, leaf damage, or other signs of stress, Program graduates note the symptoms and often know the cause, whether it's disease, bug infestation, or nutrient deficiency. If nutrients are found to be deficient they prescribe a corrective treatment and spoon-feed the affected plant or plants with the necessary plant nutrients. If it is a matter of disease or bug infestation, they act as doctors, observing symptoms to diagnose and prescribe the corrective treatment as far as possible.

18. Every gardening operation is carefully budgeted and plans are made for making maximum use of the harvest, including sharing or marketing any surpluses.

19. Gardening or farming using the efficient Foundation methods is actually a highly enjoyable experience. We know from wide experience that with the use of these scientific methods greatly increased yields can consistently be obtained.

20. Although Jim Kennard is an expert gardener, he is first of all an inspiring teacher. He has caught the spirit of true education, and seeks to arouse in his students the desire to glean "from men and books and laboratories, from field and forest and whispering wind", and more. He teaches that every truth is worth learning; that harnessing our appetites and directing our energies toward good ends produce rewards far greater than garden crops. And he teaches and demonstrates that true education is the harmonious development of the individual's physical, mental, and spiritual powers.

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