Which are you: one of the
"
Vital Few"
or the
"
Trivial Many"?
I submit that your knowledge of the
Mittleider
Method of sustainable gardening makes you one of
the "vital few." With that knowledge comes both
opportunity and responsibility.
In his book,
The Tipping Point,
Malcolm Gladwell
describes how the few can make a tremendous positive
difference for everyone else, which he compares to
an epidemic, or that point before which not much
seems to be happening, and after which effects begin
to explode.
We Need to Start An Epidemic ...
And You Can Help!
Family gardening can and should become as common
and important again as the family car.
Why?
Because your garden can FEED you -- even when:
- Your car won’t run because there’s no gasoline
(or you can't afford to buy it) ...
- There’s no food to buy in the stores ... or
- There’s no money (or not enough) to buy
food for whatever reason.
This is the context, or the overriding reason
why the message YOU carry is so vital for everyone.
And gardening should be sustainable, using true,
proven principles and the best methods and
techniques, so it will yield the "most bang for the
buck," and be worthwhile and enjoyable for the long
term.
The
Mittleider Method will
feed your family! It will give you "the garden you’d
want if your life depended on it." And it very well
may.
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Today truly effective
family vegetable gardening
is done by only about 1% of the people who may soon
desperately need it. |
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The best growing principles, methods and procedures
are the closely guarded secrets of the large field
and hydroponic growers. Meanwhile, the large majority
of gardening families are back in the 19th
century, using only manure and compost, scared into
believing that ANY use of "chemicals" will threaten
their health, or even their lives.
What makes the Mittleider Method so unique - and
so vitally important - is that it teaches the best
principles, methods, and techniques used by large
commercial and hydroponic growers, but adapted to
the small family garden. It works in any soil, and
in almost any climate. The procedures are easy to
learn, simple and straightforward.
In addition, the Mittleider Method eliminates
the problems so often associated with large-scale
commercial food production, such as overuse of
fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, high cost,
and lack of freshness and flavor.
Now here’s our opportunity ...
and my
challenge to you!
Great changes have always been initiated by just a
few people who knew what they wanted, were focused,
and were willing to share their knowledge with
everyone they could influence.
I challenge each of you to be among the
"
vital few" who help people
around you improve their lives while preparing
for the uncertainties of the future.
How?
By promoting, teaching, and demonstrating what
you've learned about the Mittleider Method of
sustainable gardening, and getting others to do
the same.
Choose a group of people with whom you have a
genuine, social relationship. Your church group,
email list, gardening club, voting district,
family, or neighborhood association are all good
places to start.
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Show them your own garden. Tell them of your own
success. Loan them a book or CD. Offer to teach a
seminar. Point out the benefits of learning and
doing it NOW, before their need is urgent and it’s
too late to learn or prepare.
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Show and Tell!
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Share articles, tips and advice from the
Food for Everyone Foundation
Website. Share back issues of
Sustainable Gardening Ezine
and encourage people to subscribe.
Even if you do nothing more than persuade them to
buy a can of vegetable seeds and a couple bags of
fertilizer, you’ve done tremendous good. A
triple-sealed #10 can of 16 heirloom vegetable
varieties that can be stored for many years can
be purchased at the Foundation
website
or at
www.mvseeds.com.
Do something NOW! Make your voice heard, and your
influence felt. You CAN make a difference for good
in the world around you.
It's time to spread an epidemic ...
(Not bird flu. The gardening "bug!")
We can do it.
Malcolm Gladwell
says we can do it. And remember: "
out of small
things proceedeth that which is great."
Thanks for your interest in gardening,
your willingness to do it right,
and your courage to share.
Jim Kennard
Jim Kennard
is President of the
Food For Everyone
Foundation, a non-profit organization with the
mission of "Teaching the world to grow food one
family at a time". You'll find many free vegetable
gardening resources, including a gardening ebook,
greenhouse plans, automated watering plans, and
a free chapter from each of the great gardening
books and software CD's Jim offers, at the
website:
www.foodforeveryone.org
