By: Len Puglisi

Len Puglisi — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:56:43 +0000

Michael – this looks like another of your very valuable initiatives. But I’m not persuaded yet on safety issues for all roadsides.
Gardeners working beside roads will be ingesting particulates into their lungs while working. The evidence of harm from these just keeps on mounting. Children are especially at risk.
Also, the soils might absorb substances/tiny particles, heated and re-heated through car emissions – which are then taken up into the plants. It doesn’t seem that the advice covers enough of these – or certainly their accumulation and reaction over time. Washing, while obviouly advisable, doesn’t seem to be adequate.

I’d really like to see this initiative succeed. Some guidance as to where and where not to try food plantings would be advisable.

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By: Len Puglisi