permaculture

["A Pilling" <apilling@email.msn.com>]

There was a series of articles on "Green Remediation" in The Growing
Edge, starting in Volume 8, Number 3, Spring 1997.  I hope this
provides a good lead or two... I am looking forward to the group's
responses. I am interested in strategies for lead removal from soil.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kirk Hanson <permawest@olywa.net>
To: permaculture <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Saturday, May 22, 1999 10:50 AM
Subject: Soil toxin bioremediation


...that there
>must be some plant or fungus that you could grow there which could be
>used to re-capture those toxins and make the land usable again.  Do
you
>know anything about the use of cover crops, etc. that have been or
could
>be used in situations such as these.  Along the same line I might
talk
>about these poisonings in the human system and what plants could be
used
>for healing the people exposed.  If you have any book titles or web
pages
>you could direct me to I would appreciate it.