permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

georg parlow wrote:
> > mushrooms cultivated ended up enriched with potassium, magnesium,
> > iodine and calcium, along with numerous other components that are
> > critical to a healthy food diet. Much of what was lost in the form
> > of washed away topsoil can be recovered in the mushroom. The water
> > hyacinth can also recover harmful metals such as cadmium and lead
> > and store them in their roots if these metals are found in the rivers
> > or lakes.
>
>
> makes sense, but...: mushrooms are known to store heavy metals, so if these
> are present in the water hyazint growing medium, they will end up on the
> consumers plate?

Good point. I wonder why this was not addressed in the website.

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