Food for Everyone Foundation

Rainfall washes out, or leaches nutrients from the soil, thus lowering soil pH (called power or potential of hydrogen). Arizona receives very little rainfall, and so nutrients – mostly “salts” – remain in the soil to the point that there is too much salinity, and plants can’t grow.   Calcium is “the foundation of a […]

I say soil testing is not necessary for the family gardener because our experience  has indicated such to be the case as we have grown gardens and assisted people around the world.  In Jacob Mittleider’s early books he did advocate soil tests, but after many years of experience he removed those statements from his later books. […]