Resource List for Gardening in Contaminated Soils Workshop

 Urban Gardening Managing the Risks of Contaminated Soil

U.S Environmental Protection Agency

• Reusing Potentially Contaminated Landscapes: Growing Gardens in Urban Soils
• Brownfields and Urban Agriculture: Interim Guidelines for Safe Gardening Practices
• Brownfields Success Story Community Led Action to Create the Emerson Street Garden
• Enhancing Sustainable Communities with Green Infrastructure
• Evaluation of Urban Soils: Suitability for Green Infrastructure or Urban Agriculture
• Technical Review Workgroup Recommendations Regarding Gardening and Reducing Exposure to Lead-Contaminated Soils Children
• Land Revitalization Fact Sheet: Historic Highways Fact Sheet
• Land Revitalization Fact Sheet: Green Infrastructure
• Land Revitalization Fact Sheet: Urban Agriculture
• Land Revitalization Fact Sheet: Improving Urban Soils
• Gardening Basics

University of Washington Extension

• Lead in Home Garden Soil
• El plomo en la tierra de huertas domésticas
• Reducing Exposure to Lead in your Garden Soil
• Reducción de la exposición al plomo en la tierra de su huerta
• Safety in the Little Gardeners’ Garden
• Youth Gardening

Wisconsin Department of Health Services

• Lead Safe Wisconsin

U.S. Department of Agriculture

• Heavy Metal Soil Contamination
• Legumes and Soil Quality
• On-Site Soil Quality Indicators

University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources

• Home Gardens and Lead, What you Should Know About Growing Plants in Lead- contaminated  Soil

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

• Studies on Transfer and Bioaccumulation of Heavy metals from soil into lettuce

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