Sun: Hoes in Action at Mandella Community Garden

This letter details the high level of pollution that was present in this garden.

There is a great article about the many uses of oyster mushrooms in the current Permaculture Activist magazine, http://www.permacultureactivist.net, which you can also find at places like the Ecology Center in Berkeley.

This picture shows a few of the different kinds of plants that were brought back into the garden. I've looked up sunflower, toxic, and terms like that on the web and have found sites that talk about how sunflowers are useful for creating biomass (lots of leftover stuff to compost and make new soil), using up leftover water that's down in the soil below the garden, and also for getting heavy metals out of the soil (http://www.aspb.org/publicaffairs/briefing/phytoremediation.cfm). Could someone please post about safe ways to dispose of sunflowers that are used in a place such as this?

The water spigots in the garden worked (one of them couldn't be turned off), so the gardeners had lots of water available for transplating fruit trees, making and testing swales, washing hands, etc. the buckets also made handy arm-rests for the people who participated in the lockdown.