Assessing Your Soil Type: A Hands On Workshop | With Michelle Catania M.S.

Unsure about your soil type? Join us as Michelle Catania leads this interactive workshop that will guide you through how to assess your own soil. Demos will be included so please dress accordingly!



Michelle Catania, M.S. is the green industry outreach coordinator for The Morton Arboretum. She provides both technical and non-technical talks & workshops to green industry professionals. Communicating the best management practices to practitioners is driven by her desire to help trees thrive in urban environments. When she started at Morton as soil science research assistant she co-authored several scientific journal articles on how urban soils impact urban trees. Michelle currently provides science-based, soil-focused expertise for the North Cook County Soil and Water Conservation District as an associate director, is serving a 2-year elected term as Research Director for the Illinois Arborist Association, and is the communications lead for the Urban Tree Growth & Longevity working group.

You may also like the following events from Possibility Place Nursery:

• Next month, 16th August, 09:00 am, Building Ecosystems in Containers, Parkways, and Urban Spaces | With Nick Conde in Monee
• Next month, 23rd August, 09:00 am, Rain Gardens: Our Backyard Wetlands in Monee

Also check out other Workshops in Monee, Nonprofit events in Monee.