2010 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:54:35 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Kansas State U. community garden research
 
Researchers Work to Ensure Safety of Urban Gardens
K-State’s National 'Brownfields' Research Funded by EPA


Kansas City infoZine
April 29, 2010


Manhattan, KS - Spring is in the air and urban gardens are sprouting up all over the country.

"Increasingly, urban agriculture is being done on a community basis, rather than an individual basis," said Kansas State University assistant professor of agronomy, Ganga Hettiarachchi. "There are now more than 18,000 community gardens in the U.S. and Canada," she said, citing American Community Gardening Association data.

Some of those gardens are on once-vacant lots and land where buildings once sat. Such locations are convenient for city-dwellers and make productive use of land that otherwise might be weedy, trash-strewn lots. There is a potential downside, however.

The problem in using properties - typically called brownfields - that may have been the site of anything from auto body shops to manufacturing facilities to gas stations, is that the soil on some of those properties can pose health risks if it is contaminated with heavy metals, metalloids or organic compounds, Hettiarachchi said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/40966/

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Lenny Siegel
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a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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