Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Jim thank you for taking the time to share your frustrations and your heart in what you have been experiencing! I read your post the other day in regards to the trouble you were having trying to come up with the micro nutrients. I wanted to post a response but really did not have a cohesive thought at the time.

I am just setting up my own garden and beds this year and cannot believe the trouble I am having finding what I need. When I have visited stores or called merchants looking for something as simple as the types of fertilizer you recommend I get blank stares or questioned as to why I want what I am asking for. I had to visit three different stores the other day before I found regular peat moss and the type of lime I was looking for. I really wanted to just find the ingredients and make my own fertilizer, forget about that! And I thought I lived in a fairly large agricultural state (Georgia) where this stuff would be abundant.

I have planted vegetable gardens in the past on a large property that I was a caretaker for. We had several large areas that we grew different types of crops for feeding the deer so there was always some type of fertilizer around and maybe some soil amendments, so I just used what was on hand at any given time. The results also were as varied as the ingredients that I would find.

As I explored different methods to start my own garden this year I came across your sight and I for one am thrilled and humbled that you have taken on the mantle of succeeding Dr Mittleider's work so that others like myself would have the opportunity to learn of his method and the work he had spent his life cultivating (no pun intended). Without your commitment to the undertaking of providing the materials and forums to continue what Dr Mittleider started I doubt that I would have come across any of this information.

I am not sure if people are being complacent or they are just too scared to deal with the implications of the possibility of our economy collapsing or even something worse happening, which would force us to become self sufficient. There is no doubt in my mind though that at the very least our government is trying it's hardest to force our dependence on it. We cannot even get a simple bill passed here in Georgia so that people would be free to provide their own food (gardens, chicken, honeybees) without being harassed by their local governments.

So I, like you and many others feel the urge to press on and fight the good fight. What is the worst case scenario, we have great produce to eat and share with our friends?

Thank you for everything you do Jim,

Blessings,
Mike

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