[MittleiderMethodGardening] A MUST READ for EVERY MEMBER of THIS GROUP
Many of you have paid attention and armed yourselves with a small degree of preparation this weekend. A great many more have done nothing. Please help me understand why!
Perhaps it has something to do with our constantly being bombarded, and even inundated with sales messages, and we just become hardened to them.
I hope some background about the Foundation and about me, as well as more detail regarding the current world situation as I see it, will be helpful.
The Food For Everyone Foundation is not a for-profit entity, but rather is a Public Charitable Foundation, and I do NOT, nor does anyone else receive a salary or wages. We volunteer, and are happy to do so because of our strong belief in and commitment to family vegetable gardening and The Mittleider Method as being the best in the world.
The posts wherein I talk about the Foundation's products ARE NOT about making money, but about trying to help YOU get prepared to care for and feed yourself and those you love! However, there IS a price tag on most of these things for two reasons: 1. Getting the gardening message out requires substantial capital, and over the past 13+ years I have given about all of it that I can. 2. I've discovered that people value and USE that which they have paid for!
About the current situation: I mentioned that I paid about 250% more for the micro-nutrients this time than I did previously. What I didn't say was that my best supplier for several years now REFUSES to SELL to me, as they only have enough product for their shareholders (co-op). And furthermore, in my search, other suppliers, including the farmers' fertilizer and feed store in our local community, charge prices that are almost 10 times higher than I experienced before this year!
After many hours of searching by car, on the internet, and by telephone I felt BLESSED to get the materials as inexpensively as I DID!.
And lastly, my core beliefs are what motivate me, and so long as you're in this group you're stuck with that, so for any who are offended with what I have to say next I can only ask for your forgiveness and tolerance.
My Christian beliefs include numerous Biblical prophecies about great hardships and even destructions of many kinds that will be visited upon the earth in the days before the Lord Jesus Christ's return.
Precursors to the worst of those events – "signs of the times" – include great wickedness, such as was seen in ancient Babylon, and in Sodom and Gomorrah before their destruction. As I see it the difficulties that are coming upon us today are the result of our collective wickedness, and of our forgetting the Lord.
I am confident that the "wicked" label doesn't apply to most people in this Group, but even the "righteous" will not be spared if they have not taken the necessary steps to prepare and protect themselves. The Lord cites the story of the 10 virgins to make the point that general goodness and virtue are not going to be enough to save us. It takes having "oil in our lamps"! And some of that oil is the preparation to care for yourself and those you love by gardening, including knowledge, fertilizers, seeds, and an actual productive garden!
I believe that less than 5% of people - even among the members of this gardening group - are prepared with sufficient oil in their lamps. What about you?
Jim Kennard
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