Rhizofiltration and Rhizodegradation – Helping Nature Do His Thing part 3 – JP035
From PNW, to South Korea, from Silver Spring to Charlotte we discuss these two different techniques for cleaning and building healthy black soils!
* Works Referenced*
Paul Stamets – Excerpt from Mushrooms as Planetary Healers.*
Phytoremediation of levonorgestrel in aquatic environment by hydrophytes*
Umbrella Papyrus*
Rhizofiltration using sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) and bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L. var. vulgaris) to remediate uranium contaminated groundwater*
A prescription for drug-free rivers: uptake of pharmaceuticals by a widespread streamside willow*
Shrooms? In my Buckets?? – JP027*
EsoTerracisms: Beekeeping in Ancient Kemet (Egypt) – JP017
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Where have you been??!
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Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice Part 3
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Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice pt 2
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Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice pt 1
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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?
Rhizofiltration and Rhizodegradation – Helping Nature Do His Thing part 3
Rhizofiltration is when contaminants are bound to the surface, or immobilized within the Root tissue by chemical action, usually precipitated or mineralized as a salt.
Rhizodegradation happens within the rhizosphere, or root zone, of the topsoil structure. Bacteria, yeasts, and fungi transform contaminants into basic phytochemicals. Rhizodegradation by fungi is called mycoremediation.
I first came upon these concepts, and rhizodegradation especially, as many others have, by learning about Paul Stamets. Specifically his experiment discussed in the documentary Mushrooms as Planetary Healers.
Excerpt from video
Of course you remember the free masters thesis project I gave you all in episode 33. In that experiment we discussed the Papyrus removing the levonorgestrel out of the water by phytoextraction, but as the paper also states “Additionally, mineralization on root zone epidermis played an important role in the reduction of LNG in water.” That is rhizofiltration in one sentence.
