###work in progress This wiki page, like all wiki pages, is a work in progress. If you can help add information, add links, or clean up the organization of this wiki, then feel free to do so! If you're logged in, click the edit button above! If you haven't signed up for publiclab.org, it's quick and painless! ###Food Desert * problem definition/description * existing initiatives that address food deserts (there are a lot, so just sticking to what came up in this thread related to PL) * Newark Green Community Garden * Growing Power * etc * research directions * Link to Ariel's research papers * [Project outline](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NihDX41mExajHnPxPCGIkCoEddq_8jbyD_fW04_Bbfo/edit?usp=sharing) * Project article: https://medium.com/@levisimons/are-food-deserts-also-food-monocultures-31de780a6db4 Questions on Food Deserts: [questions:food-deserts] ###Food Quality * problem definition/description * research directions * food fraud (link to Yagiz' work on olive/peanut oil spectroscopy) * nutrient density experiments Questions on Food: [questions:food] ###Food Growing Research * Infrared imagery for plant health * in cover crop monitoring (FarmHack) * in crop surveillance (FarmHack, other farms) * in community gardens evaluating/demonstrating their practices (Green Community Garden) * Multispectral analysis for plant health * [Concept for analysis](http://publiclab.org/wiki/multispectral-analysis-for-determining-plant-health) * [MultispeQ device](http://publiclab.org/search/multispeq) * Tracking outputs * Farming Concrete / Five Borough Farm * more here.... Activities: [activities:food] ###meta Main image [from Wikipedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Swedish_buffet-Sm%C3%B6rg%C3%A5sbord-01_%28cropped%29.jpg) and used under [CC-BY-SA license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en)...
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| mehrad1 | "ایزوگام https://tehran-izugam.ir/ " | Read more » | almost 4 years ago | |||
| warren | "Also - I looked up Ugali and it looks amazing -- I dearly love cooking and nourishing people. I'm trying to brainstorm a good name for a future din..." | Read more » | almost 4 years ago | |||
| ruthnwaiganjo | "Thank You!!! :smiley: " | Read more » | almost 4 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hi @ruthnwaiganjo thank you for your post! We're so grateful that you joined us and as I mentioned on the Outreachy chat this morning, you're doing..." | Read more » | almost 4 years ago | |||
| kaninimalio | "@ruthnwaiganjo so proud of you. Keep going gurl. " | Read more » | almost 4 years ago | |||
| ruthnwaiganjo | "Hi @amocorro, thank you :smiley: I'll be sure to join the next Public Lab event! Sombe looks really tasty.. I'll see if I can find the ingredients..." | Read more » | almost 4 years ago | |||
| amocorro | "@ruthnwaiganjo - welcome! Really glad to have you join the Public Lab community and as an Outreachy intern. It's great to learn more about your pat..." | Read more » | almost 4 years ago | |||
| promothecode99 | "Chiquito restaurants provides fully hygienic food to their coustomers. So what I recommend you whenever you want to eat healthy food check out chiq..." | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "By the way, the CyAN app gets images from satellites! " | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "There is an APP from the EPA that allows for testing for cyanobacteria ( yes,this includes the bad algae). The app works on androids and is called..." | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| mimiss | " @mimiss has marked @amallozzi as a co-author. " | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
| menchronicle2 | "his is cool to learn! I also started as a front-end developer with a remote position " | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "There are a number of ways to test for this. But first, don't Use any method that brings you in contact with the algae. The exception is, if you a..." | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
| sanan00r | "https://47biz.com/Properties/Residential_Plot-for_sale/Bahria_Town-Lahore-9-1-378.html " | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "Here in the lake Erie area, we are suffering from algae blooms. You can look up the problem. But especially in the western basin of lake Erie, t..." | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
| silentsairam | "We can use the Carbon footprint for each food item and measure its environmental impact. https://www.greeneatz.com/foods-carbon-footprint.html htt..." | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
| johncarter | "Thanks for share " | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
| rahamath_prizm | " So good to know it got identified soon. passive income " | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| straylight | " thanks solaris, yes, the yeast, like the sugar, has bolted. An analytical test for red and white wine, excellent, we are making progress :) Agre..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| solaria | " Thanks Stray'. Actually, the 0.06 A for the wine was at 5 cm path. Divide by 5 to get 1 cm path for comparison. If yeast/fermentation was cont..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| straylight | " solaria, great work, much kudos deserved. A rigorous experiment. Like david_uwi, I wondered at why sucrose is absorbing visible light (VL) at all..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| solaria | " Well, the sucrose absorbance is very low, but it's not zero. See Sucrose Absorbance. Since the data is 'clean' and the calculations match expec..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| david_uwi | " Problem I have is that sucrose solution looks colorless so does not absorb visible light. I feel that the changes in absorbance that you are seein..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago | |||
| solaria | "Here’s my try at this experiment. Basically, Yes, you can detect added sugar in wine, but it’s a very small change, and requires an accurate basel..." | Read more » | almost 6 years ago |