creator Chojnowski, Joeseph creator Clemens, Natalie creator Esparza, Saul creator Gerges, Shahir creator Hernandez, Veronica creator Herrera, Stephanie creator Hittie, Thomas creator Lucid, Shannon creator Peck, Edward creator Pfau, Sara creator Procaccio, Vincenzo creator Samuels, Janina creator Schaefer, Kristina creator Siefkas, Kaylyn creator Sweikert, Emma creator Winter, Rachael IPRO 344 investigated methods for safe, low-cost community gardening in the urban setting. Most community gardens within large cities are sited in vacant lots that have been previously built upon. When the structures that once occupied these sites were demolished, the debris filled the basements of the structures, and was then covered by a shallow layer of nutrient poor dirt. The resulting vacant lots pose two problems for community gardening. First, the ground becomes tough and nearly impossible to manually prepare for gardening purposes. Second, the presence of lead and mercury from the paint and other construction materials has been incorporated into the soil, which can be harmful when transferred into plants which are then ingested. Since most community gardens in low-income neighborhoods do provide food, it became the aim of IPRO 344 to inexpensively grow plants which would be safe to eat in an urban community garden. Submitted by Ariel True (atrue@iit.edu) on 2011-03-28T17:20:57Z No. of bitstreams: 7 license_rdf: 22564 bytes, checksum: ff373f1ad387898ef8ba4f8bc9e37073 (MD5) license_text: 20904 bytes, checksum: e09bf99e64678e4285abf3ef3e05412d (MD5) Community Gardening IPRO 344 Project Plan S06.pdf: 47128 bytes, checksum: 0d59da0200233aaa1b3f5a69110f1440 (MD5) Community Gardening IPRO 344 Poster S06.pdf: 3294225 bytes, checksum: 36c7e1539c637b166d8cc86324572182 (MD5) Community Gardening IPRO 344 IPRO Day Presentation S06.pdf: 4096428 bytes, checksum: adbf1dcbb047b0ad50d64a68218852e8 (MD5) Community Gardening IPRO 344 Final Report S06.pdf: 119002 bytes, checksum: aa20795274e5bba3e3ddf41f0b92621c (MD5) Community Gardening IPRO 344 Abstract S06.pdf: 135918 bytes, checksum: a4924ade1f52561090dd470c05be0e9a (MD5) Approved for entry into archive by Charles Uth(uth@iit.edu) on 2011-03-28T19:30:11Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 7 license_rdf: 22564 bytes, checksum: ff373f1ad387898ef8ba4f8bc9e37073 (MD5) license_text: 20904 bytes, checksum: e09bf99e64678e4285abf3ef3e05412d (MD5) Community Gardening IPRO 344 Project Plan S06.pdf: 47128 bytes, checksum: 0d59da0200233aaa1b3f5a69110f1440 (MD5) Community Gardening IPRO 344 Poster S06.pdf: 3294225 bytes, checksum: 36c7e1539c637b166d8cc86324572182 (MD5) Community Gardening IPRO 344 IPRO Day Presentation S06.pdf: 4096428 bytes, checksum: adbf1dcbb047b0ad50d64a68218852e8 (MD5) Community Gardening IPRO 344 Final Report S06.pdf: 119002 bytes, checksum: aa20795274e5bba3e3ddf41f0b92621c (MD5) Community Gardening IPRO 344 Abstract S06.pdf: 135918 bytes, checksum: a4924ade1f52561090dd470c05be0e9a (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-03-28T19:30:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 7 license_rdf: 22564 bytes, checksum: ff373f1ad387898ef8ba4f8bc9e37073 (MD5) license_text: 20904 bytes, checksum: e09bf99e64678e4285abf3ef3e05412d (MD5) Community Gardening IPRO 344 Project Plan S06.pdf: 47128 bytes, checksum: 0d59da0200233aaa1b3f5a69110f1440 (MD5) Community Gardening IPRO 344 Poster S06.pdf: 3294225 bytes, checksum: 36c7e1539c637b166d8cc86324572182 (MD5) Community Gardening IPRO 344 IPRO Day Presentation S06.pdf: 4096428 bytes, checksum: adbf1dcbb047b0ad50d64a68218852e8 (MD5) Community Gardening IPRO 344 Final Report S06.pdf: 119002 bytes, checksum: aa20795274e5bba3e3ddf41f0b92621c (MD5) Community Gardening IPRO 344 Abstract S06.pdf: 135918 bytes, checksum: a4924ade1f52561090dd470c05be0e9a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-07 Deliverables for IPRO 344: Building a Community Garden for the Summer 2006 semester 2006-07 2006-07 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/1689 en Blake Davis Kenneth Schug (BCPS) Community Garden Project deliverable born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Open Access IPRO / Interprofessional Projects Program Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department