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When we discovered that the soil in our yard had such a high lead count it was very dissappointing for all of us. We have such a large and sunny yard and our soil quality is fantastic for growing food. We had already prepped our plot and planted the first round to seeds and starts. [...]
Check out these greens David brought us from his garden!
Super huge!
Super Beautiful!
Super Delicious!
These are Champion Collards and this was the largest collard plant in David’s garden this year. He was super kind (and maybe a little braggy, hahaha) for bringing them and sharing with us.
David came over for the afternoon and we [...]
So for those of you who have been following our little garden drama know that we discovered after testing our soil that we higher than safe levels of lead deposits in the land we are working. What this means is that we can’t let the children garden with us and as adults we have to [...]
So I was roilling through Rainier Valley on my way to get my daughter and decided to stop by Pat’s house and see how her garden is doing. Here’s a quick vid. Good job Pat & Charlotte (I see a dandilion or two that could use a good pulling, but I’ll leave that up to [...]
Our snap peas are popping out all over the place! I counted about 16 between two plants. That’s up from about four three weeks ago. They are also extra plump and sweet. Picked two and shared with my brother and his girlfriend. ….FREE FOOD!
[Dirt & Digits... Field logs posted on location via Wordpress [...]
CHECK IT OUT! We have our first snap peas sprouting! Woooohoooo!
Let’s hope we get enough to enjoy before the creatures discover them & get to harvest before us.
[A field journal & media posted from my motorola cliq]
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As David shared in a previous post we did a soil test through the University of Massachusetts and found that the lead levels in our garden soil were dangerously high. The extrapolated levels as reported by U Mass were 488 ppm (part per million). The high end of the safe contact threshold is 300ppm. We [...]
The concept for The Garden Project started out simply enough, we imagined a web-based project utilizing short webisodes, a blog and few of our friend experimenting with urban gardening and documenting our successes and failures. The idea quickly evolved, however, and the current model for TGP began to emerge….
It has been an amazing journey getting the project off the ground over the course of the past year. Support from the community has been, and continues to be tremendous. Some amazing people have signed on to bring their passion, energy, expertise and knowledge to this effort. As the site evolves I hope you take the opportunity to become acquainted with the participating families, garden coaches and health professionals without whom this project would not be possible.
A reminder from Lily Wong at the Department of Neighborhoods P-Patch Program:
Dear Gardener:
Welcome to the wonderful world of P-Patch community gardening. The P-Patch Program partners with Seattle Tilth to offer the following series of free organic gardening classes. These classes are designed to take you through the gardening season in your P-Patch. Most classes [...]
Coast to Coast Am is a program that I listen to on a daily basis. They deal with a range of topics and in particular the lead host regularly tackles personal and public health issues. The May 18, 2010 show was all about the effects of GMO foods and how it has been shown to [...]
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