Re: Questions on timelines and strategies for bio-remediation

Thanks Shafqat

Very much appreciate your response. Chris has great positive energy so
hopefully there will be good opportunities to evolve.

I am busy on all fronts with many projects all at different levels and
scales and of course always some controversy...more on all later

Best regards

Steve

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On 19 August 2018 at 17:51, Shafqat Saleem Khan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Chris ,
>
> I know many areas in Mansehra where the land is absolutely virgin and no
> chemicals have been used on it. One of the patch is Manoor Valley where I
> recently implemented a Swiss funded grant.
>
> Get in touch with me on below information and we could talk about
> potential for growing moringa in Mansehra.
>
> Steve : How have you been ? How are your permaculture activities going on ?
>
> Thank you !
>
> + 92 336 5644138
> Skype: shafqatsaleem1
>
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
>
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 1:32 PM, Steve Hart
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Chris..following up on my previous facebook response one very key
> person for you to contact in Islamabad is Sameena Nazir...copied in here.
> Also Shafqat will also be very helpful, also copied in.
>
> Steve Hart
>
> Kia ora Ehoa
>
> *Steve Hart*
> *Ecology Architect*
>
> Designer, Teacher, Builder of Ecologically Sustainable Resilient
> Environments, through Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
> and Systems Ecology via Ecological Agriculture..​
>
>
> *Skype: tipenemanawaPhone: +64 220 75 62 11*
>
>
>
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>
>
>
>
>
> On 17 August 2018 at 22:12, Vaidila Satvika <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Chris,
> Paul Stamets has some good examples of improving contaminated soil using
> mushrooms. See his book Mycelium Running.
>
> Good luck!!
>
> Vaidila
> 828-713-0546
>
> > 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
> > ===
> > Chris (Hamza) Wardle
> > Online at SlideShare/Facebook/Skype/ Twitter/LinkedIn: cjwardle
> > Pakistan mobile: 0302 2333340
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