Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Looking it up I see Richmond is at Vancouver in BC. Your Food Security 
Society is doing impressive work and I'm glad to know of it. If you want to 
tell us more about your work please do. I'm in NM and I've seen the 
earthships tho I'm not impressed with them ;-)

Suggest people look at that link
http://richmondfoodsecure.blogspot.com


paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 2/9/2010 at 7:38 AM Arzeena Hamir wrote:

>I would head the advice of the nursery. Along with possible
>hydrocarbon contamination, asphalt also contains heavy metals.
>Eighteen to 24 inches would be my recommendation. Here, our local
>landfill does yardwaste composting and sells this material for about
>$5 a pickup. It's not particularly nutrient rich but provides the
>'fluff" to fill beds.
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>Arzeena Hamir MSc. P.Ag.
>Coordinator
>Richmond Food Security Society
>http://richmondfoodsecure.blogspot.com
>coordinator@richmondfoodsecurity.org
>http://twitter.com/arzeena
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>On 8-Feb-10, at 5:02 PM, Jennifer Hamilton wrote:
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>> I normally lurk on this list...but I need some advice. I want to start
>> a garden on my new place, but I am now finding that the area I want to
>> plant is probably construction fill. I'm finding lots of asphalt
>> chunks.
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>> Would it be worth my time to sift them all out or should I just go
>> straight to raised beds? If I need raised beds, how deep should they
>> be? I was originally thinking 12", but a local nursery advised 18". I
>> hadn't really planned on needing to buy dirt!
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>> Any advice would be appreciated!
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>> Thanks.
>> Jennifer Hamilton
>> Santa Rosa, CA
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