Hello fellow gardeners, My name is Jennifer and I'm currently working on my master's thesis research on heavy metals and gardens, using San Francisco as a case Study. I have just launched a website that outlines basic information on heavy metals and gardens, including everything from doing your own soil sampling for testing, finding a lab to test the soil, safe levels, and down-loadable pamphlets translated into Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese. The results of my research is also on the site, and includes maps that show the levels of metals that were found in each garden alongside income and race/ethnicity data, and tables that show the relationship between the concentrations of the metals and various factors (raised beds vs. in-ground gardens, home age, zip code, etc.). You can go directly to the site from this link: https://sites.google.com/site/healthygardeners/, or if you would like to skip right to the results, go to the page entitled San Francisco: A Case Study<https://sites.google.com/site/healthygardeners/san-francisco-project>.
The project included backyard, community and school gardens. I'm still analyzing the results of the study and so do not have everything up on the website yet, but will update it when the thesis is complete. Expect to see an analysis of community vs. backyard gardens, which will likely show that community gardens tend to have less metals than backyard gardens. Please feel free to pass the link on to other gardening organizations that you think might be interested. Cheers, -jennifer -- Jennifer Gorospe, Graduate Student "Race, Ethnicity, Income and Exposure to Heavy Metals by Urban Gardeners" A research project sponsored by San Jose State University, California Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Justice Small Grants Program and the Garden Club of America. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20110711/63e9d681/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
