Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

There are many reasons The Mittleider system of growing produces great yields, and for you to be successful you MUST prepare through proper study and training, and then you must adhere strictly to the RECIPE, which is the Mittleider Gardening Course book, supplemented by the Food For Everyone book. 

Bring the men and women you expect to have create and run the garden to the Mittleider Gardening Certification Training Boot Camp in Kidder, Missouri, and in 6 weeks I can have you trained and capable of creating and running the best commercial operation on the continent.  (for a family gardener here in the States I can have you competent in one week of Boot Camp!)

As to specifics, following are a few statements regarding main areas of importance:

1.  Start by growing in the dirt, rather than trying to go directly to the sawdust and and boxes.  The boxes represent a substantial investment, even for one acre, let alone 10, as you envision.

2.  To be successful you must have ample water available at all times.  In most places this requires that you have water towers (large tanks), wells, and pumps, and a piped system of getting the water to the growing beds.  Understand that a 30'-long bed or box requires between 10 and 20 gallons of water daily, and there are more than 250 beds per acre (625 X 15 = 9,000+ gallons per DAY per hectare)

3.  The fertilizers must be sourced, purchased, delivered, mixed, stored, and used accurately and consistently.  This is not inconsequential, and it is essential to your success.  You need to be checking with neighboring countries to determine where you can get your fertilizers.  When I conducted a project in Madagascar we had to bring most of the fertilizers from South Africa.

4.  Most importantly, you must have a large and well-trained and supervised workforce!   Daily work in the garden must include not only planting, watering and harvesting, but weeding (the 2-way hoe is important!), pruning, removing sucker stems and guiding vertical plants (tomatoes, etc) up the baling twine strings, and getting rid of the competition (animals, bugs, and diseases) that plague all gardens.

In January, 2018 I went to the Philippines and supervised the creation of a large gardening project for the Rise & Rebuild International Foundation.  While a crew of 20 men cleared the jungle and leveled the land I taught and supervised 25 students/workers 2-3 hours in the classroom and 5-6 hours + in the garden.  By the time I left the garden was about 1 acre, and in 5 more months the labor force was 100 and the garden was almost 6 HA. (15 acres).  A few pics from Rise and Rebuild's website show the beginning of the garden - http://www.riseandrebuild. org/gallery.html

It is working, and accomplishing amazing things (they are feeding more than 1,000 students each day plus selling the excess produce to pay for all of the garden's costs, including the payroll of 100 workers), because everyone followed the program religiously and did not deviate from it.  If they get lazy or careless and begin to take shortcuts they will fail also.

I wish you the best of success.  Just know that you are contemplating taking on something that is very difficult to accomplish!  If it were easy everyone would be doing it.  :)