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The Food for Everyone Foundation

 

The Food for Everyone Foundation is a Non-Profit organization that travels the world teaching people in impoverished areas how to grow gardens which will yield five to ten times more than traditional gardening methods.

Perhaps the most beneficial aspect of this organic gardening method is that it allows a family to feed themselves and earn a highly important income.  This income is many times reinvested into a larger garden the following years.  This continuous cycle of reinvestment is one of the things the Foundation is most proud of.

In a majority of cases these original Mittleider gardeners then teach their fellow village members to Mittleider method. This is a classic example of our "Paying it forward" goals.

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The History of the Food for Everyone Foundation 

Dr Mittleider has taught around the world for over forty years

The Food for Everyone Foundation's purposes include And 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; by 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. He is a retired Certified Public Accountant (CPA), practicing as managing partner in a Salt Lake City firm since 1972.

Jim has been a Mittleider gardener for the past twenty-six 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 gardening information 

All about the Food for Everyone Foundation

Want to know how to join our affiliate program? How about why the Mittleider method is considered the best organic method of sustainable gardening?, or how about how to order the products. Check these You tube videos out for the answers.
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Tell the world about your gardening success and your opinions about the Mittleider method of gardening.

Best of success! We look forward to having you join us help people one village or garden at a time.

Jim Kennard, President
Food For Everyone Foundation
www.foodforeveryone.org

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Help Feed the World, One Project at a Time! 

Sustainable Gardening Non-Profit to Help Families around the world.

Are you interested in making a difference for good in the world?

It will require about $15,000 to create and conduct a Pilot-sized training garden project, with a seedling greenhouse, tools, equipment, materials, seeds, and instructional materials for up to 20 students - plus food for the students until the garden provides, and a translator. That will also provide a teacher for 3 months, and numerous other directly associated incidentals.

For help with donating to the Non-Profit Food For Everyone Foundation please call us at 1-801-583-4449, and we will be thrilled to have your association in this great work.

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Previous missions 

Food for Everyone Foundation prior missions

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 4,000 students have been trained in 75 projects, with limited materials and meager funding. These 4000 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.

Food For Everyone Foundation Activities - 2007 

World Outreach - FFEF website

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 21 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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Sustainable Gardening Non Profit 

The Food for Everyone Foundation

Websites and blogs about the Food for Everyone Foundation and the Mittleider method of sustainable gardening.
Food for Everyone non-profit Foundation
The Foundation's purposes include encouraging and fostering the development, understanding, and distribution of the most efficient scientific non-polluting and ecologically sensitive food production procedures, by sponsoring and supporting the research, development, and dissemination of the best possible gardening methods and techniques, and the most effective information delivery systems and teaching methods throughout the world, with primary emphasis on the developing countries.

We also encourage the development of education in gardening procedures and techniques in the USA by teaching and training the public in effective gardening methods.

And 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; by providing financial assistance to worthy and needy students; and by assisting in providing materials, equipment, tools, seed, and fertilizers sufficient for trained students to achieve gardening success in their own communities.


How to organic garden
HTOG covers The Food for Everyone Foundations form of organic gardening.


Mittleider method organic gardening blog
Organic Gardening blog highlighting the Mittleider Method of home and commercial gardening. Sometimes refered to as the poor mans hydroponics. This blog is designed to be a reference point for anyone wanting to learn about the Food For Everyone Foundation.


FFEO Garden master software
This blog is a review of the outstanding Mittleider Method Garden Master Pro software.


Donate to the foundation
Please help support the foundations mission by makeing a donation.


Purchase the amazing foundation nutrients
All plants need 16 nutrients. Nature provides 3 (oxygen, hydrogen & carbon), and Mittleider Magic provides the other 13! The macro-nutrients nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, are in the 2-1-2 ratio that the horticultural industry favors, but for some reason is difficult to find in the garden shops, and all 13 nutrients are scientifically balanced to give your plants just the right amounts of each.


Free greenhouse plans
This PDF shows you how to construct a very solid but low cost greenhouse.


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World Peace Emerging - News, Adventure Travel, Real People
World Peace Emerging has reporters travel the globe to find real people making real change in tsunami and hurricane relief, coffee fair trade and more.
Sustainable Agriculture Educational and Training: U.S. Associations and Organizations
Educational and Training Opportunities in Sustainable Agriculture - U.S. Associations and Organizations

Interview with Jim Kennard President of the Food for Everyone Foundation 

November 2007

Interview with Jim Kennard President of Food for Everyone

Interview with the President of the Sustainable gardening Non-Profit Food for Everyone Foundation. Nov 07

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This Is What Hunger Looks Like 

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Facts About World Hunger 

Did you know how many people suffer from hunger and have no clean water?

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.

Help end this today. No one on Mother Earth should be going hungry. Help the Food for Everyone Foundation end starvation for good.

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Twenty key aspects of a FFEF training program 

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