Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Dr. Jacob Adler, our course instructor, for organizing the collaboration of our class with the Erie Street Community Garden so we have the opportunity to participate in this project. Grow Local, the overseeing organization that is in charge of the Erie Street garden among others, generously allowed us to take soil samples for our analysis. TA Renjian Xiao was invaluable in guiding us through our completion of all of our analyses in lab. Our funding is from Purdue University, so thank you to the university for providing this, without which we would not have the resources to do all of our lab procedures throughout this semester. Thank you to Lisa Stillman, our lab coordinator, for facilitating all of the students in our class and organizing our lab section.