Chemical and biological indicators of soil health in Chicago urban gardens and farms

Agriculture & Biology

• community gardens 100%
• indicator species 97%
• gardens 89%
• soil quality 85%
• home gardens 82%
• food webs 68%
• arsenic 66%
• farms 61%
• soil fertility 57%
• zinc 49%
• Nematoda 48%
• urban agriculture 45%
• best management practices 41%
• free-living nematodes 41%
• soil analysis 37%
• soil pollution 36%
• vegetable growing 35%
• functional diversity 35%
• organic soils 35%
• food production 30%
• composts 30%
• soil pH 30%
• tillage 29%
• community structure 29%
• soil organic matter 29%
• pollution 26%
• ecosystems 23%