Factsheets

Soil contaminants from historical industrial activity may get into or onto our veggies and fruits and have negative health effects over the long term.

Learn how to avoid contamination of your fruits and veggies.

This Healing City Soils Factsheet offers ways that home-scale food gardeners, small urban farmers and community gardeners can draw on their soil and plant knowledge and skills to remediate soils that are contaminated with low to moderate soil concentrations of heavy metals.