One of the greatest controversies surrounding the Mittleider Method is around the terms “Organic” or “Chemicals” or “All Natural” – will using “all those fertilizers” hurt the environment and poison my soil? These are valid concerns and should not be dismissed lightly.

Plants are amazing factories with the ability to create thousands of nutrients from just a few water soluble IN-organic minerals / chemicals / metals. In theory, plants can NOT absorb organic materials. Plants require chemicals to grow and produce food. If you are gardening with only manures and composts, you will have to wait for those materials to break down before your plants can make use of them. At that stage, there will be no way to assess the levels of the minerals available or determine their ratios relative to one another.

More is not better! Too much fertilizer is just as bad, if not more so, than too little. The Mittleider Method Gardening Course teaches the right balance to give plants and when to give it to them in order to provide optimal conditions for food production – even in less than optimal growing conditions.

This is a video interview with Jim Kennard addressing the truth about organic gardening (organic farms can pollute too) and using chemicals in the garden. It addresses how many chemicals from the periodic table  that your plants have to have and the elements in the periodic table you want to avoid. It compares costs, dependency, pollution/salts and soil toxicity, pollutants leaching into the water table, and some of the fallacies being propagated in the agricultural community.

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Warning! Do not watch this if you have a difficult time being told that what you may have been taught was a lie.