ATC ‘22 ARBORPALOOZA: EXPLORING THE WIDE WORLD OF TREES
Tree Academy 1: It’s All About SOIL! Saturday, October 1, 2022 | 8:30 am to 4:30 pm (6.5 CEUs) Instructor: James Cassidy Location: Bay 5
Most people only have a vague idea of what soil is and how it works. You will learn more than you ever thought possible from this lecture. The reason you are alive, what nutrients are, how soil stores water and nutrients. The fundamentals that ALL humans on the planet Earth should know! Students will learn: • The importance of soils • How soils are different in different locations at various scales and why/how these differences ultimately determine human activities and potential • What is agriculture and its importance • What plants are and what and where they get their basic needs • How soils form • Where nutrients come from • How soil stores nutrients • How plants get nutrients from soil • How to use some useful on-line tools to determine soil types at any location in the US and how to dog deeper using these tools
James Cassidy has been an Instructor of Soil Science at Ore - gon State University for over 17 years. His introductory soil sci - ence class now has over 100+ students each term and is very popular. James is also the faculty advisor for the wildly popular OSU Organic Growers Club - OSU’s student farm. Coming from a non-traditional background (music industry for over 35+ years) he is passionate about soil and is popular with students because of
his dynamic speaking style. The student farm project has over 300 student volun - teers on it’s list-serve and continues to grow. The farm cultivates over 50 different fruit and vegetable crops and is just beginning it’s 22nd season.
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