 The Square Foot Gardening foundation is a fully credited non profit organization approved by the IRS as a 501-C-3 and accepts tax deductible donations for its humanitarian projects around the world.
SQUARE FOOT GARDENING FOUNDATION GOALS AND OBJECTIVES- To encourage and Foster the Conservation of the Earth's Natural Resources through composting and practicing Square Foot Gardening
- To share Square Foot Gardening with the entire world enabling all people to live a more nutritional, healthy, and self-sufficient life.
SFG STRATEGIES- Promote the 3 R's (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)
- Encourage Composting.
- Emphasize Conservation of Water. (A Natural Resource)
- Enhance Principles of Self Sufficiency Through the Use of SFG.
- Accentuate the Beauty of SFG.
- Show Adaptability Anywhere in the World.
- Explain the Efficiency, Economics, and Ease of Starting SFG.
- Demonstrate the Suitability for all Ages and All Abilities.
- Highlight Simplicity, Ease of Learning, using Natural Materials.
- Emphasize Earth Friendly, Non-Polluting, Non-Land Destroying.
About the Creator, Author, and Founder - MEL BARTHOLOMEW Graduate of Georgia Tech in Civil Engineering. Built his own Consulting Engineering Firm specializing in site and utility design.- Was nominated to be included in Who's Who, Congress Hall of Fame, and New Jersey Famous Engineers.
- Retired as a successful innovator and businessman in his field at the age of 42.
- Took up gardening as a hobby, but then set out to solve the frustrations of most gardeners, "To replace the traditional wasteful single row gardening method with a better way to garden, one that's more efficient, more manageable, and less work." His answer was to invent the Square Foot Gardening system.
- His first book "Square Foot Gardening" became America's largest selling gardening book ever, over a million copies sold.
- His Square Foot Gardening TV series ran on PBS, Discovery Channel, and Learning Channel for eight years—winter shows filmed at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and then retired again.
- Left retirement a second time to create the non-profit Square Foot Gardening Foundation, to bring better gardening to all people of all ages, around the world, including an innovative "Garden in Every School program."
- Mel continues to write, teach, motivate and inspire.
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