Abby, Dan, and Hannah joined the Uptown Summer teens on the fourth Wednesday of Uptown Summer to screen the soil samples taken in the prior week for lead. We did not detect lead in the samples taken from the Collard City Garden and Troy Little League, meaning that the samples contain less than 200 parts per million of lead.

The Our Soil team held a virtual community meeting tonight with the Soil Justice Fellows and other residents in Troy to give an overview about the soil workshops at NATURE Lab in August, collectively set expectations for those workshops, and answer questions.

You can watch a recording of the meeting here.

Abby, Dan, and Hannah joined the Uptown Summer teens on the third Wednesday of Uptown Summer to collect soil samples for analysis. Dan will set the samples to dry and sieve them to remove particles and debris larger than 2 mm before next week. We took samples from the Troy Little League and Collard City Garden, and next week we will screen the samples for lead using the Community Soil Study Toolkit.

Dan and Hannah joined the Uptown Summer teens on the second Wednesday of Uptown Summer to think about what it would mean for us to use science to analyze our environment for pollutants.

Saed was interviewed by McKenna Conners of The Sanctuary for Independent Media on WOOC 105.3 about the Our Soil project. Saed discussed his role with the Our Soil project and the complexities of soil and prevention of exposure to pollutants that soil may contain. You can listen to the radio interview here.

Abby, Sarah, and Hannah posted flyers on the blocks surrounding NATURE Lab to announce a community meeting to introduce the Soil Justice Fellows to the broader group of residents in North Troy, and to collectively set expectations for the workshops. The meeting will be held virtually on July 25th at 7pm. You can register here.

The Our Soil team will be working with the Uptown Summer program at The Sanctuary for Independent Media on Wednesdays this month. We will be investigating soil lead in local soils, which will involve grappling with how and why lead is in soil in cities, how much lead do local soils contain, and what we can do about it to protect community health.

Dan was interviewed by McKenna Conners of The Sanctuary for Independent Media on WOOC 105.3 about the Our Soil project. They discuss the health implications of heavy metals like lead in soil, methods that people can test their own soil, and ways that people can prevent exposure to lead that may be in soil.

The Our Soil team held a virtual information session tonight to provide more details and answer questions about the Soil Justice Fellowship at NATURE Lab this August. You can view a recording here by using this passcode: 6N.gLq=K

Sebastián was interviewed by McKenna Conners of The Sanctuary for Independent Media on WOOC 105.3 about the Our Soil project. Sebastián discussed his role in the Our Soil project and the importance of healthy soil for community health. You can listen to the radio interview here.