Category: soil safety
SGC in Environmental Health Perspectives
A recently published article from Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), Urban Gardening: Managing the Risks of Contaminated Soil, draws upon Professor Wendy Heiger-Bernays’ expertise along with others’, to frame the emerging issues with gardening in urban soils.
“Although it can be tricky, ideally gardeners should also test incoming compost or soil because there’s little guarantee it will be much better than the old soil, says Heiger-Bernays. She and her students have found that few authorities either enforce rules governing what goes into compost or test the final product, although some voluntary standards do exist, such as the U.S. Composting Council’s Seal of Testing Assurance.” [1]
SCG’s ongoing work with a community garden group is featured in this article as sub-narrative. Have a read at what we do in action.
Citation for this Article:
[1] Kessler R. Urban gardening: managing the risks of contaminated soil. Environ
Health Perspect. 2013 Dec 1;121(11-12):A326-33. doi: 10.1289/ehp.121-A326. PubMed
PMID: 24284011; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3852790.
The article is open-access and available for download through the EHP website and through PubMed.
How to take a garden soil sample (video)
Printed instructions, no matter how step-by-step, may not always be the easiest way to figure out how to complete a task. Our video on how to take a soil sample may be of help when you are ready to collect samples to send to a lab for analysis.
