I would really like to make some seed bombs and start distributing them.
The LA times has a nice photo montage of how to do it here. I just need to figure out where to buy clay in the city. Good thing I know someone who does ceramics. I will need to ask her.
I feel like once I can do this and have it experience, I can feel much more confident in encouraging others to participate. I'd love to make these to hand out to friends and even people I barely know.
I am incredibly interested soil remediation and I feel like seed bombs are a way to encourage this. Currently many city lots are full of heavy metals that are toxic to human health. I have heard that by planting mustard, soil can be remediated. I tried to do some research on this, but haven't had much luck. What if we were to just plant mustard everywhere? This could save our soil and make it safe to move to my next dream project....urban agriculture.
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"Bioremediation: Apart from gaining access to land, one of the largest obstacles to food production in cities is the high levels of toxins that are present in urban soils. Ranging from heavy metals to pesticides to hydrocarbons, these contaminants can accumulate in plants, and if eaten, can make us sick and weaken our immune systems. Bioremediation is the process of using the natural properties of living organisms to accumulate, bind up, or degrade toxins." - info from Rhizome Collective's webpage
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sunflowers for lead?
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