permaculture

[B Hardy <rhubarbs@hotmail.com>]

EPA's Contaminated Site Clean-up Information Website has a factsheet on
"Reusing Potentially Contaminated Landscapes: Growing Gardens in Urban
Soils" and other tools/resources that may be of use:

http://www.clu-in.org/ecotools/urbangardens.cfm



On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Katy Fox <littlestoryteller@yahoo.com>wrote:

> Dear all,
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> I hope you are well. I am writing because I have a recurrent question at
> this moment, kind of related to some of the permaculture designs I've been
> doing. We've been looking at community garden sites, and there are some
> industrial wastelands that are kind of on offer. So I wondered whether you
> have any experience with working with these kinds of polluted lands and how
> you'd go about dealing with them. Can you depollute them if they have heavy
> metals? are there any people dealing with that specifically that you know?
> (I know some people from Findhorn who are working to clean waters through
> biomimicry processes - Biomatrix - but none who work with soil regeneration
> in heavily polluted sites). where do you recommend I start my research in
> this area?
> Metta
> katy
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