The local food movement is gaining traction in cities across America, with urban gardens contributing a healthy source of fresh produce for local citizens as well as providing a social outlet for ...

Plot sampling is an ecological and environmental survey method in which discrete, usually regularly or systematically arranged, spatial units (plots or quadrats) of defined size and shape are selected ...

Analyzing soil lead in an urban garden plot is important and sampling approaches may involve tradeoffs between finding ‘hotspots’ versus looking at the average amount of lead when checking for safe ...