by Dr. Ridgely Abdul Mu’min Muhammad

What is "Paradise" and what is a "garden"? According to Webster’s
Dictionary "paradise" is "the garden of Eden". Therefore when we say
"paradise is a garden" we are 100% correct according to the meaning of the words. Now
"garden" according to Webster is a "plot of ground where herbs, fruits, flowers, or
vegetables are cultivated". Now "cultivate" means "to prepare or prepare and use
for the raising of crops".

With all these definitions under our belt and the planting season just around the block, let’s
prepare or "cultivate" our minds towards the making of a heaven for ourselves on earth. If
paradise is a garden and you can set up and cultivate a garden while you live, why wait to die to go
to "paradise" when you can have it and eat it too on earth? However, to have a successful
"garden" requires proper planning, preparation and follow through. In other words a garden
or paradise requires a lot of work. And this is where the problem resides. We have become fat, lazy,
spoiled and taken over by both the cares of this world and "sport and play". Therefore, we
don’t have the time or take the time to do what is necessary to survive on this planet as we
strive to do what is expedient to "get ahead" in the artificial world of our open enemy.
As a result, we have placed our stomachs in the kitchen of that same open enemy, instead of growing,
processing and cooking our own food.

If I were Satan and wanted to eliminate the people on earth, I would strive to make them
disrespect work and disrespect the earth. Then I would get them to depend on me for their food and
slowly poison them.

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has warned us that death has entered America and that
practicing the tenants of "How to eat to live" is the only way to survive as the food and
water of America becomes what we call the "new weapons of mass destruction". In 1991 the
Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan reinstituted the Three Year Economic Savings Program of The
Honorable Elijah Muhammad. In November of 1994 from the donations to this program he redeemed 1600
acres of the 4500 acre farm in Georgia previously owned by the Nation of Islam until the departure
of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

I have been working on this farm in Georgia, which we call Muhammad Farms, since February of
1995. We can bear witness that a seed planted by a Black man has as much chance of producing a crop
as one planted by a white man. Therefore we do not need the white man to produce food for us. Mother
Nature will give us her fruits as long as we abide by her laws and work.

Each year we have been blessed to produce beautiful, wholesome, tasty, holistically grown crops
at Muhammad Farms. However, our people are spread out all over America and the logistical and
economic problem of getting our produce to all corners of America has meant that only a few people
have been able to benefit.

We were blessed to be on a fact finding trip to Cuba in March of 2006 sponsored by the Honorable
Minister Louis Farrakhan. On that trip we learned that Cuba had a different approach to feeding her
people than America. On her large farms Cuba grows such staples as corn, rice, potatoes, and black
beans. However, she grew her vegetables right in the middle of her cities in urban gardens. Most of
the gardens that we saw were done on raised beds.

Minister Farrakhan has his own personal farm where he grows navy beans, but also has a small
personal garden to produce his own vegetables. However, his garden, like many small gardens gets
taken over by weeds in the middle of the season. Since the Ministry of Agriculture is pushing the
concept of urban gardens and we understand that the weed problem is a major concern for all farmers
and gardeners, we offered to put in a set of raised bed gardens at his farm as a demonstration of
the latest techniques in bed preparation, fertilization, irrigation, weed control and greenhouse
construction as was demonstrated at the 2007 Ministry of Agriculture Conference held in January in
Bronwood, Ga.

Recently I, along with three other members of the Ministry of Agriculture, Brothers Earl
Muhammad, Frank Muhammad and Gerald Muhammad traveled to the Minister’s farm and put in a set of
raised beds in his garden. The information gained from this demonstration will provide a blueprint
for other individuals, Mosques and churches who wish to survive the "Fall of America" and
the "Slow poisoning of America". In future articles we will go into more detail about why
you should set up your own garden and how to grow, process and store your own food. In the course of
these studies we will introduce you to the science of agriculture and the economics of food
production and wealth building, because it is "nation time". We must "Do for self or
die a slave" and build a heaven (paradise) for ourselves while we still live.