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Food For Everyone

by Dr. Jacob Mittleider

Food for Everyone

Paperback: 621 pages

ISBN: 0965661709

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The Mittleider Advanced Gardening Text Book

A comprehensive treatment of the proven Mittleider Method of dramatic food production demonstrated throughout the world, with sixty-four chapters, 621 pages, and a thousand drawings, photographs, and color plates. Also provides a detailed discussion of all aspects of plant growth, soil and water, organic and mineral fertilizers, greenhouse production, disease and insect control, harvesting, and marketing. Essential material for all serious vegetable gardeners.

Also available in Japanese. Please contact us if you are interested in the Japanese verison.

What Others are Saying

"In the middle of Monument Valley's desert area, lush vegetation is flourishing. Dr. Jacob Mittleider, an expert on gardening . . . has shown that food can be produced in the world's worst soils."
(Marsha Keele, Monument Valley, Utah)

"On both sides of the road we saw well laid out green and healthy growing crops. I could hardly believe my eyes as I had known this land to be a sandy waste."
(B. D. Lakshman, Suva, Fiji Islands)

"Everyone in the Agriculture Department has been amazed at the results obtained. I didn't think we could do it, but you have shown that it could be done in this country."
(Bob Ackeroid, Papua, New Guinea)

"Dr. Mittleider has demonstrated that despite extremely unfavorable soil conditions, an abundance of vegetable crops can be produced by using his procedures. And this method has given hope to discouraged farmers throughout the Island."
(General James p. Lampert, Okinawa, Japan)

"I came prepared to be critical as we are often inundated with programs that are neither practical nor sound. I left completely converted by the simplicity and soundness of the system and results."
(C. D. Promnitz, Zimbabwe, Africa)

"His method is simple, based on the laws of nature, yet very invaluable and can be applied any time, any place, under any conditions - with sure results."
(Sonny Ramdoth, Trinidad-Tobago, West Indies)

"His garden looks like a work of art. The neighboring collective farm field is full of weeds, but here where the land is the same, you won't see a single weed."
IZVESTYIA (newspaper), Moscow, Russia

"I came prepared to be critical as we are often inundated with programs that are neither practical nor sound. I left completely converted by the simplicity and soundness of the system and results."

C.D. Promnitz,
Zimbabwe, Africa

Read a Chapter

Download Chapter 8: The Parts of a Plant and Their Functions (PDF, 784 KB) and learn the basic anatomy of all plants and understand the functions each part of a plant plays.

Table of Contents:

  1. The Big Challenge
  2. The Mittleider Gardening Program
  3. Winter Gardening in Snowing Oregon
  4. Tropical Gardening
  5. The Mittleider Plan of Action
  6. Re-emphasizing Food Production in Today's School Programs
  7. The Fascinating World of Plants
  8. The Parts of a Plant and Their Functions
  9. Raising Attractive and Productive Gardens
  10. Why Plants Starve
  11. The Soil
  12. Soil Water
  13. Oxygen and Soil Air
  14. The Erosion Problem
  15. The Soil pH-Acidity and Alkalinity
  16. Testing the Soil
  17. Carbon, a Macronutrient
  18. Nitrogen, a Macronutrient
  19. Phosphorus, a Macronutrient
  20. Potassium, a Macronutrient
  21. Calcium and Magnesium, Macronutrients
  22. The Micronutrients or Trace Elements
  23. Sulfur, a Micronutrient
  24. Boron, a Micronutrient
  25. Manganese, a Micronutrient
  26. Iron, a Micronutrient
  27. Molybdenum, a Micronutrient
  28. Copper, a Micronutrient
  29. Zin, a Micronutrient
  30. Sodium, a Micronutrient
  31. Chloring, a Micronutrient
  32. Review of Plant Nutrition
  33. What are Commercial Fertilizers?
  34. Inorganice Versus Organic Fertilzers
  35. Foliar Spraying
  36. Green-Manure and Cover Crops
  37. Animal Manure
  38. Toxic Elements in the Soil
  39. Fertilizer Management
  40. Fertilizer Economics
  41. Settling the Weed Problem
  42. Crop Quality
  43. The Vital Classroom Theory
  44. The Teacher in the Field with His Students
  45. Results - Imperial Valley Style
  46. Results When the Students Are on Their Own
  47. Results When the Program is Deviated From
  48. Marketing
  49. Fruits, Grains, Nuts, and Vegetables
  50. Plant Selection and Improvement
  51. The Gardener's ABC Program and Procedure
  52. The Program for the Acreage Gardener
  53. Plant Foods in the Diet
  54. Modernizing Primitive Agricultural Programs
  55. From Mile-High New Guinea to Sea-level Fiji
  56. Supervisory Tours
  57. What About Costs?
  58. The Importance of the Greenhouse in Disease and Insect Control
  59. First Graduating Class from Nine-Month Mittleider Course
  60. The Contribution of the Mittleider Institutse ins Solving the Worldwide Food Problem
  61. Mankind Can Be Fed
  62. The Challenge of Okinawa
  63. Conclusion

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What's New

Complete Mittleider Gardening Books now available on one cd-rom. Read more.

Tip of the Day

It's Spring Planting Time! For those of you in the Northern hemisphere who have winters, March and early April are the time you need to be preparing your soil and planting the hardy vegetable crops such as radishes, peas, cabbage and broccoli.

The freeze/thaw cycles of winter have broken up and loosened most soils, so as soon as it's not muddy, go in and give everything a good weeding with the 2-way hoe (see Tools). Weeding thoroughly this early gives you the upper hand, and is very important.

If you grew a Mittleider garden last year, your beds will be easy to re-make. Just apply Pre-Plant and Weekly Feed to the bed area, then till them in, place strings on your stakes, and re-make the beds.

Be sure to re-check the level of each bed accurately, since they may have changed a little. Do not be satisfied with anything more than 1" fall in a 30'-long soil-bed. Good Gardening!

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