Sunflowers are bringing new life to blighted neighborhoods of New Orleans. Will Bradshaw of Green Coast Enterprises tells host Steve Curwood that Project Sprout’s test plot of sunflowers will not only remove heavy metals from the contaminated soil, the flower seeds will also be made into biofuel.
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