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Resources for Urban Gardeners
by
Laura Witzling and Ellen Phillips
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last modified
May 25, 2009 01:54 PM
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Evaluating your garden for...
- Fertility: This link takes you to a page about the nutrients your plant needs, soil amendments, and places to get your soil tested.
- Soil Quality: This link will take you to a test card which you can print and use to evaluate your soil quality.
- Soil Testing: This link will take you to a file you can use to interpret a soil test.
- Environmental Risk: This link will provide information about lead in soil, and clicking here will take you to our USQI newsletter with information on risk.
Research Abstracts on urban gardening and urban soil issues (including Pb)
General information on urban soils
Web resources about urban gardening and urban soil pollution:
- American Community Gardening Association - Main Page
- Cooperative Illinois Extension - list of soil testing services
- Cooperative Illinois Extension - Urban Programs
- Chicago Park District - Community Gardens
- Environmental Protection Agency - Pb in Paint, Dust and Soil
- EPA - Residential Lead Hazard Standards
- EPA - More on general Pb concerns
- EPA - Lead Safe Yard Project
- GreenNet - Main Page
- GreenNet - Gardening Safely in the City
- Master Gardener - Environmental Concerns
- Neighborspace - Main Page
- NRDC Get the Lead Out
- Open lands - Main Page
- Omaha Healthy Kids - information on Pb
- Northwestern University - Phytoremediation Decision Tree
- Penn State Urban Side of Green Video
Get Started in Beekeeping
Students support Central Illinois Food Bank and give thanks
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