The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Reciprocity in Soil Restoration

The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Reciprocity in Soil Restoration (GBOF) is a partnership between the Compost Education Centre, Royal Roads University’s Environmental Science Department and our First Nation’s partners- the PEPÁ?E? HÁUTW_ Foundation, Tiffany Joseph of the Indigenous Foods Initiative, SW_,?ENE?ITEL. We are testing combinations of native and non-native plants, compost and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to help remove low-medium concentrations of metals from soils on three sites throughout Greater Victoria- a community food garden, backyard food garden and ecological restoration and traditional food systems restoration area.

We plan to develop and disseminate resources and trainings that build knowledge, skills and action to utilize culturally and ecologically appropriate and community-accessible native and non-native plants (including trees and other perennial food plants), soil amendments and fungi in order to improve soil quality and increase soil carbon storage, address pollutants and other problems with degraded soils.

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