Students in Abby’s class at RPI—“Food, Farms, and Famine”—used color-based lead tests today to screen soil in the Vasudha garden. The samples were taken last Monday, August 2, from the raised garden beds, around the compost, and along the base of the dormitory wall. Dan set the samples to dry and sieved them to remove particles larger than 2 mm in preparation for today. We did not detect lead in any of the samples that were taken, which means that samples had less than 200 parts per million lead.
Photo by Bucky Stanton.