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Jim Kennard

U.S.

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Expertise

I can answer questions on vegetable gardening - Raised Beds, Container, Soil-Beds, "Poor Man's Hydroponics", Organic, etc.

Experience in the area

Gardened using The Mittleider Method for 30 years. Conducted seminars, college-level training programs, produced 80 video lectures, written hundreds of gardening articles, answered thousands of gardening questions, created a gardening website www.foodforeveryone.org with free ebook, free greenhouse plans, FAQ section with 355 gardening articles.

Organizations

Food For Everyone Foundation - President - Mission is "Teaching the world to grow food one family at a time."

Publications

Numerous website publications

Education/Credentials

Taught personally for 20 years by Dr. Jacob R. Mittleider, "The Garden Doctor", assisted him in creating and conducting major gardening training projects in America and Russia.

Awards and Honors

Master Mittleider Gardening Instructor

What do you like about this subject?

I believe everyone is better off by having a personal hand in providing for themselves, and that vegetable gardening also helps us feel closer to nature and to nature's God.

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?

I hope to learn the answers to all important questions relating to growing vegetables, so that I can be of greater service to others.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

Vegetable gardening can be done, and healthy, tasty food produced from any location that gets adequate sunlight - even a concrete patio or roof-top. And you don't need dirt! Sawdust and sand, with proper natural mineral nutrients, can produce a great harvest of tasty vegetables and fruit.

Something controversial or provocative about this subject

It is amazing to some people that organic gardening and hydroponic growing can actually coexist in the same "method" or using the same principles and procedures.

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Recent Answers from Jim Kennard

2009-04-02 cinder blocks in raised beds:

Remove your plants from those tiny places. There is not enough space for proper root growth. Feeding and watering are also a problem. Plant in rows near the edges of the raised beds and feed - both

2008-08-25 Camellia:

Phyllis: Some varieties of camellia prefer some shade, but most need at least some direct sunlight, or the flowering suffers. Our experience is that most flower varieties will do better in sun than

2008-08-15 Best direction of rows:

It really doesn't matter which direction your rows go. What IS important is that all of your plants receive maximum exposure to direct sunlight all day long. To accomplish this, in addition to not

2008-08-04 no flowers on many plants:

What vegetables are you growing? Many don't produce flowers until later, when they are going to seed. Rain shouldn't keep plants from producing flowers. In the 4 months we spent in Colombia this past

2008-07-25 Sq ft. gardening/raised beds in greenhouse:

A good height for working would be 32" for the top of the beds. You could therefore build tables 24" tall on which to place your Grow-Boxes (containers). Whether you use wood or metal you will

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