GROWING POWER-PACKED FOODS

...guard against soil pollution, boost crop nutrients

Do you know if you plant food crops on a polluted land, the toxins might be ingested by the plant and can constitute danger to the health of the consumer?

Even if you do organic farming - i.e. you don't use chemical fertilizer,  pesticide or herbicide.

Let's say for instance there are factories that release polluted wastes to the soil in the vicinity of the land where growing of food crops is done. The toxins in the wastes can get mixed with surface and/or underground water and be carried to the location of nearby farms or gardens.

The roots of the crops can ingest the toxins and may die. But the plants may still live and produce fruits with traces of the toxins in them.

This is not to scare you o - chances are that the traces of the toxins in the plants may not cause ill-health in consumers except over a very long period of time of constantly eating such.

OTHER GIST
In this my mini-garden, I thought since plants can ingest elements from the soil, since I have soil in sacks, let me put nutritious elements in the sacks of soil.

Lemon grass for instance has a whole lot of health benefits, so this mini-garden researcher today started manuring some sacks of soil with lemon grass - if the nutrients in lemon grass are ingested by crops such as corn, pineapple, pepper etc,  wouldn't that be great?

As you see me so, na scientific . experiments I dey  do for this my urban mini-garden. 

If I must farm, it must be farming to provide solutions to health issues - food should heal us, not hurt us.

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