Bioextraction/Phytostabilization – Helping Nature Do Her Thing Part 2

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Jìgìjìgì: Africulture Podcast

45 episodes

2 months ago

Jìgìjìgì is an Afrikan-Centered Podcast that seeks to encourage other Afrikans to learn more about growing plants, food, soil, and their soul. We want to get our hands and minds dirty detailing the Afrikan relationship with the soil. We continually ask and answer the question, "How did you grow while you grew tomatoes, peppers, kale, and melons?" Building healthy soil builds a healthy soul and we share stories on how to do both. Expect episodes to contain wisdom, tips, and actionable advice from Afrikan Agriculturalists for how to improve "blacken" your green-thumb. An apt DMV proverb is "There is no culture without Agriculture." We find that to be very true here at Jìgìjìgì.

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Bioextraction/Phytostabilization – Helping Nature Do Her Thing Part 2

Jìgìjìgì: Africulture Podcast

9 minutes 27 seconds

5 years ago

Bioextraction/Phytostabilization – Helping Nature Do Her Thing Part 2

Bioextraction/Phytostabilization – Helping Nature Do Her Thing Part 2

Fascinating experiments in Nigeria change our plans for growing lead out of the soil. Enjoy!

* Works Referenced* EDTA* Chelation* Surface Tension* Soap* Shear Stress in Fluids* F–k Yeah Fluid Dynamics Blog* Phytoremediation of Lead Polluted Soil by Glycine max L* Compost and biochar assisted phytoremediation potentials of Moringa oleifera for remediation of lead contaminated soil

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* Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice pt 2
* Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice pt 1
* Urban Agriculture and Climate Change: “The New Normal”

Transcript (automated)

Peace,

I am Mason Olonade and this is Jìgìjìgì: Africulture Podcast. Here we believe building a healthy soil builds a healthy soul, so we share strategies for how to do both. To do both we ask two questions: How do you grow while you grow Kale, Collards, Tomatoes, and Melons. And why, do you think, the healthiest soils are Black?

Bioextraction and Phytostablization – Helping Nature Do Her Thing, Part 2

Just as plants move nutrients from the soil through roots to shoots, tubers, leaves, and seeds, so it goes for pollutants.

Before I continue with this episode I must emphasize the importance of soil testing. When Mandela and I grew down at Nu Ray Research Garden we learned that approximately 1/4th of the land was contaminated with high levels of lead.

It wouldn’t be a big problem for us because we are healthy and young, but for children and older folks it is not advised to consume anything that grows in a lead contaminated soil.

So what do you do with the soil you have, that may be contaminated or polluted? Like most answers to most questions, it depends. In the Master Gardener class I took the instructor told us that a particular place in DC was previously a military dumping ground, and so, the school had to get the soil excavated and replaced because of the arsenic contamination.

This may be an outlying example but in our case, the lead came from house paint illegally dumped during a housing renovation. These contaminants don’t go anywhere, unlike nutrients that can be leached away, contaminants leach within the soil, within our bodies, unless we do something about them.

If we had the time to experiment with our contaminated s...