Jim Kennard – Food For Everyone Foundation
Mittleider Gardening Methods:
Class #1: Vegetable Gardening
Class #2: Food Production Training
As the oldest boy in a large family in Granger, Utah, Jim was responsible for the outside chores, including the animals and the family garden. That experience became valuable when he was married and he and Eleanor (Knapp) had an all-girl family of 5. They often used hand-me-down furniture and also saved money by growing some of their own food wherever they lived.
In the mid ‘70’s, shortly after LDS President Spencer W. Kimball counseled the Saints that every family should grow a garden, Jim met Jacob R. Mittleider. Jacob was a genius grower with world-wide experience, who was creating the Sandy Stake Welfare Farm garden and teaching LDS families throughout northern Utah his amazing procedures for greatly increasing their yields. Jim was profoundly impressed and converted his own garden to the Mittleider Method, experiencing personally the promised yields of 5 to 10 times his previous results. Jim worked extensively with Dr. Mittleider over the years, and Jacob even personally trained him in Jim’s own garden adjacent to Utah’s Hogle Zoo. The garden was labeled a “Mittleider” garden, and for almost 20 years was easily visible to hundreds of thousands of annual visitors.
By 1998 Jim had spent time working with Jacob on an Adventist University agriculture program in Russia, as well as assisting him at Thanksgiving Point, in Lehi, Utah for several months. He also worked extensively with Dr. Mittleider for two growing seasons in creating a greenhouse, garden, and training program at the Weimar Adventist college in California. In the fall of 1998 Dr. Mittleider, who was a devout Seventh Day Adventist, was finally convinced after more than 20 years that Mormon Jim Kennard was the best he was going to get to carry on his work, and turned everything over to Jim with the challenge to help people wherever he could.
Jim created the Food For Everyone Foundation, established a website, digitized all of Dr. Mittleider’s books and training videos, and since that time gives his full-time efforts to the Foundation. He and his wife Araksya have conducted numerous humanitarian gardening training programs in developing countries, and have given countless free group gardening seminars throughout the USA. They count their blessings in the thousands of friends they have made throughout the world.
In Jim’s classes, you will learn about vegetable gardening and food production with the Mittleider Gardening Method.