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Brownfields

Brownfields and Urban Agriculture: Interim Guidelines for Safe Gardening Practices

This document is a condensation of the input of 60 experts from academia, state and local government, and the nonprofit sector who gathered in Chicago on October 21 and 22, 2010 to outline the range of issues which need to be addressed in order to safely grow food on former brownfields sites.

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