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Self Reliance – Grow Your Own Market Garden

Market Gardening – Smaller Gardens Can a family be totally self-sustaining by using between 1 and 2 acres to grow, eat, and sell food?  Yes!  As a matter of fact, families in many countries are doing it, and they often have gardens much smaller than 1 acre.  However, you should consider carefully what you are […]

Introducing “the Best Gardening Method on the Planet”

Introducing “the Best Gardening Method on the Planet” The Food For Everyone Foundation’s recent 5-month humanitarian gardening training project in Armenia was a great success in helping people learn to grow their own food, and it is evidence that the Mittleider Gardening Method (MGM) is “the best gardening method on the planet” for the home […]

Sustainable Gardening – Propagation Can Be Simple And Fun

3Propagation Can Be Simple and Fun – AND Give You VALUABLE Plants!  Have you ever wished you could grow sweet, fresh pineapples like those great Del Monte ones you can sometimes find in the stores?  How about bananas or other tropical delights – wouldn’t it be fun to grow your own, right in your back […]

Feed Your Family In 64 Square Feet Of Garden Space

You can grow 12 different vegetables in only 64 square feet!

No Equipment to Nano-Size Your Fertilizer? DISSOLVE It and It’s Molecule Size!

Fertilizers and Particle Size: What’s it All Mean? In my travels, the subject of fertilizers comes up often. In these discussions, we sometimes center on the topic of fertilizer particle size—specifically when someone asks me about “nanoparticle” fertilizer. When it comes to liquid fertilizers, the difference between whether something is a solution, a colloidal dispersion, […]

Feed Your Family On 1/50th of an Acre

Instructions for Growing The Sustainable Family Garden Heirloom Bugout Seed Bag  By Following The Recipe Below, You’ll Eat Healthier, Save Money, And Maybe Even Save Your Life!   Our bodies were designed to be herbivores, and as you eat primarily a whole food, plant-based diet you will be healthier, need less volume of food, avoid […]

Making Mittleider Weekly Feed Into NANO+ Liquid Fertilizer

Foliar Spraying the Mittleider Weekly Feed – Here’s How To Do It!

Prepare Now For Next Spring’s Garden

Winter’s the time to get ready to grow your own seedlings!  It’s not really difficult, and can extend your growing season by many weeks.  For example, by planting cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower in February in your basement under grow-lights, you can put large, sturdy transplants into your garden by the end of March or early […]

Prepared – Got Your Wheat, Beans & Rice? So What Are You Going To Eat?!

As we try and stay warm during this cominf cold winter season probably very few of us are thinking of gardens or growing our own food – but maybe we should be!  When God cursed the ground it was for our sake, so when He said we were to eat our bread by the sweat […]

Container Vegetable Gardening – Size, Soil Materials, and Recommended Fertilizers

First off, you must have full sunlight and adequate water to have a successful vegetable garden, so find an all-day sunny spot with a good source of clean (not necessarily drinkable) water before you do anything else. The next issue you’ll face is the details of how to build, level, fill and fertilize your containers. […]