Re: Questions on timelines and strategies for bio-remediation

Hi Chris,
Paul Stamets has some good examples of improving contaminated soil using mushrooms. See his book Mycelium Running. 

Good luck!! 

Vaidila 
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> On Aug 17, 2018, at 5:34 AM, Chris Wardle <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Questions on timelines and strategies for bio-remediation
> 
> 20180817: After three months of intensive study on Moringa cultivation in
> Nepal, I am currently in Pakistan to learn more about local approaches to
> marketing and the development of value-added products.
> 
> Sadly though, with significant pesticide and chemical fertiliser use in
> this country, I think it unlikely that it will be easy to find
> uncontaminated land as I pursue my dream to see more Moringa grown
> organically here.
> 
> Yesterday, it was my good fortune to learn of a federal government facility
> in Peshawar which offers free testing to assess the presence of pesticides
> and chemical fertilisers in food. It strikes me that for low-income
> farmers, this could be a reliable proxy and a good alternative to the high
> cost of applying for and maintaining formal organic certification.
> 
> Hence, I am interested to avail this testing service not only as a mean of
> assessing the quality of my food, but also as a monitoring tool for the
> bio-remediation of land which has more than likely been exposed to such
> toxic hazards.
> 
> However, I am hoping to learn about similar monitoring experience from
> other contexts, as well as effective natural strategies to free the land
> from contamination. For example ...
> 
> 1) To what extent (if any) can chicken tractors, burning off, flooding,
> planting of particular species, earth worms, mulching, the application of
> compost, or other techniques help in returning the soil to a healthy state?
> - and
> 
> 2) In what sort of time frame have you been able to achieve effective
> bio-remediation of contaminated land?
> 
> I'd be grateful if readers could share details of strategies employed and
> results achieved, and/or offer pointers to studies demonstrating timelines
> for effective bio-remediation?
> 
> Thanks in anticipation.
> 
> PS: please feel free to respond in this forum, and/or at the original post,
> here:
> bit.ly/bio-remediation
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