The Soil Justice Fellows met in two groups with the Our Soil team on Saturday and Sunday this weekend (8/14 and 8/15) to complete the first soil workshop. Mónica flew in from Tucson and Saed drove up from New Paltz to join Abby, Kathy, and Dan in Troy. In the NATURE Lab yard, fellows used color-based tests to measure lead and arsenic in their soil samples. Fellows shared with one another why the locations where they took samples were important to them and what they expected and hoped to find with the soil toolkit. Mónica and Saed briefed everyone on what soil is, why building healthy soils is important for community health, and how we can work with our existing soils to improve soil quality and community health.
