'CHRISTIE IS A BRIDGE, SHE CAN COMMUNICATE WITH JUST ABOUT ANYBODY.'

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The garden is also a testing ground. Among the organisms that have been "planted" around city hall are shoebox-sized bricks of oyster mushroom mycelium. Oyster mushrooms, specifically those belonging to the genus Pleurotus, are the MVPs of mycoremediation, researchers have found. And environmental contamination is one of the most pressing issues facing the Tewa pueblos, owing in large part to the proximity of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Tsosie-Pena said demonstration projects like the Healing Foods Oasis can help normalize landscape-based strategies. "Given the urgency of the issues and the times that we're in, we really need to combine indigenous knowledge with western technology," she said.