Event Details
- Oct 16 2025
- Expired!
- 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
- Peirce Education Rooms (Welcome Center)
- Peirce Education Rooms
- Members $15
- Nonmembers $20
Soil is the foundation of everything for a garden! Understanding the basics of soils can give you a head start in becoming a successful gardener. Join soil scientist Maggie Cullinan for a soil seminar where YOU will get to direct the conversation, ensuring that you get answers to all your soil questions. Over the course of the discussion, you will have the opportunity to learn about soil chemistry, native soils vs. potting soils, how to take and interpret a soil test, and more. Get the inside scoop. Can you dig it?!
Speaker
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Maggie CullinanSoil Scientist
Maggie Cullinan is an Ohio State-educated soil scientist with a wide breadth of experience in soils and education. She has worked as a soil sampling technician, a soil laboratory technician, a soil science instructor, and now works as a geomorphologist and head of research and development for a peat-free, local potting soil company. If you’ve got a question about soil, she can answer it! Maggie is also an avid vegetable and native plant gardener, and she recently completed training as a Pennsylvania Master Naturalist to better understand her new home in Pittsburgh after moving here from Columbus, Ohio in 2024.
Soil is the foundation of everything for a garden! Understanding the basics of soils can give you a head start in becoming a successful gardener. Join soil scientist Maggie Cullinan for a soil seminar where YOU will get to direct the conversation, ensuring that you get answers to all your soil questions. Over the course of the discussion, you will have the opportunity to learn about soil chemistry, native soils vs. potting soils, how to take and interpret a soil test, and more. Get the inside scoop. Can you dig it?!
Speaker
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Maggie CullinanSoil Scientist
Maggie Cullinan is an Ohio State-educated soil scientist with a wide breadth of experience in soils and education. She has worked as a soil sampling technician, a soil laboratory technician, a soil science instructor, and now works as a geomorphologist and head of research and development for a peat-free, local potting soil company. If you’ve got a question about soil, she can answer it! Maggie is also an avid vegetable and native plant gardener, and she recently completed training as a Pennsylvania Master Naturalist to better understand her new home in Pittsburgh after moving here from Columbus, Ohio in 2024.
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