With all that talk about soil contamination and growing food, we figured we should get on learning more about it. We applied for $500 through NSPIRG, and seeing as this is truly an issue of Public Interest, we got the money. Attached is the outline of the project: basically we are going [...]
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Soil Contamination project
Posted in 1, tagged soil tests, soil contamination, soil on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
soil contamination
Posted in posts, tagged soil tests, bioremediation, raised beds, soil contamination, mushrooms on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Brent:
I would like to share some advice to all city gardeners: Please get your soil analyzed for heavy metal contamination!
I would not recommend eating anything that has been planted into the topsoil in Halifax without having a heavy metals scan done. On the up side, container gardens or raised beds with that have [...]