lead garden protocol kit
with luca smith senise
2023
riso printed manila folders, glassine envelopes, cold stratified seeds (5 species): achillea millefolium, asclepias tuberosa, trifolium pratense, echinacea purpurea, taraxacum officinale
The Boston Lead Gardens project is an independent community-based study around the lead-fixing potential of native plants in the greater Boston AREA. Motivated by the potential for phytoremediation in urban environments, this project proposes local lead phytostabilization as a new everyday gardening practice and act of care. Experimental “Lead Gardens” planted across a network of ten different neighborhoods built a community effort to study the phytostabilization capacity of five common Massachusetts-native or naturalized perennial plant species. Pointing toward a new practice of attending to the cultural consequences of industrial activity as stored in our urban soils, the goal of the Boston Lead Gardens initiative is to develop a research project that is a joint process of community care, remembering, learning, and knowledge production.
aubrie's bounce zone 