Vista Millennial
Food Garden
Vista Millennial Food Garden is a Phoenix-based community garden with the vision of providing increased produce for those in need in our community. We distribute our harvested fruits and vegetables to local food banks, pantries, homeless shelters, and selected non-profit organizations providing food distribution to the most needy in our community.
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Self-sustaining gardens designed to last a thousand years
We support the Food for Everyone Foundation
Sometimes called "The Poor Man's Hydroponic Method" or "The Best of Organics"
Aren't those opposites? Here's how they both are accurate. Like hydroponics, the Mittleider garden grows greatly increased quantities of beautiful, healthy and tasty vegetable and fruit.
It also stretches the growing seasons on both ends by 1 to 2 months! How? By protecting plants from extreme weather conditions, by growing plants close together and often vertically, by accurate and timely watering and feeding balanced nutrition and by allowing no weeds in the garden.
And like organic growing, the Mittleider Gardening Method uses natural products as fertilizers, including ground up rocks, not raw manure or compost.
Also because healthy plants grow fast and are less suscepitble to bugs and diseases, herbicides and pesticides are rarely needed and then only the most natural are used. But unlike organic growing we know exactly which nutrients and how much of each our plants are getting and they receive them regularly throughout the growing season.
Why Millennial Food Gardens?
Because the United States has a very high risk of having an extremely vulnerable food supply
The United States is increasingly at risk of a major agricultural crisis due to a dangerously vulnerable food supply system. Between 1993 and 2020, U.S. agricultural imports from Mexico increased more than elevenfold. By 2020, this growing dependency resulted in a $15 billion agricultural trade deficit with Mexico alone.
Over the past few decades, nearly all small farms in the U.S. have gone out of business. Those that remain are largely viable only because they are vertically integrated. This structure allows them to absorb losses in farming by generating profits in related industries. Independent farming is no longer sustainable for most producers.
Today, the United States imports more than half of its fresh fruit and nearly one-third of its fresh vegetables from other countries. This heavy reliance on foreign sources for essential food has become a serious national security concern.
The situation is made worse by the fragility of our supply chains. Disruptions caused by road closures, fuel shortages, labor strikes, or acts of terrorism could lead to significant food and water shortages across the country. These risks are even greater in times of crisis.
If the United States were to become involved in a major conflict, our transportation and electrical infrastructure could be among the first targets for attack. Any damage to these systems would likely cause immediate and widespread supply chain failures, leaving the nation vulnerable to severe shortages of critical resources.
Food Shortage Ahead?
Due to surging inflation, vulnerable domestic food supplies, growing distribution problems, and escalating global instability, the American Foundation recognizes an urgent need to create numerous large, family-sponsored Millennial Food Gardens.
Millennial Food Gardens: A self-sustaining large gardens designed to last a thousand years
The world around us is becoming increasingly unstable. This isn't a conspiracy theory; it's a reality we can all see unfolding before our eyes. Consider the current global and national circumstances:
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Surging inflation
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Widespread food shortages
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Ongoing disruptions to supply chains
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Rising global tensions, with wars and threats of war
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Russia openly threatening the use of nuclear weapons
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China showing increasing aggression and territorial expansion
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Iran continuing its pursuit of a nuclear weapon
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North Korea conducting regular missile tests with potential nuclear capabilities
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The ongoing risk of global pandemics
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Multiple food processing and distribution centers being damaged or deliberately set on fire
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Unchecked mass migration under open border policies
Given these serious challenges, the need for long-term, resilient food systems has never been greater. Millennial Food Gardens offer a vision of stability and sustainability—gardens built to feed communities for generations, no matter what the future holds.
Address
2508 W Vista Avenue, Phoenix, 85051
Hours
Monday - Friday
7:00 AM to 12:00 PM