{"id":78421,"date":"2024-04-09T11:18:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T16:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=78421"},"modified":"2024-04-09T11:18:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T16:18:17","slug":"sternberg-geoscience-club-hosts-whats-in-your-soil-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=78421","title":{"rendered":"Sternberg Geoscience Club hosts &#8216;What&#8217;s in Your Soil?&#8217; event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By FHSU Sternberg Geoscience Club<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sternberg Geoscience Club is excited to announce our\u00a0spring event,\u00a0\u201cWhat\u2019s in\u00a0Your Soil?\u201d.\u00a0This event was created to bring awareness to over-fertilization and potential pollution.\u00a0This event has two guest speakers to share\u00a0and spread awareness\u00a0about soil, fertilization, over-fertilization risks, and other related topics.\u00a0We will\u00a0also\u00a0be giving out free soil testing kits to attendees\u00a0(while supplies last)!\u00a0This event is held Monday, April 22<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0at Fort Hays State University Memorial Union, Hays Ks, 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Floor,\u00a0Stouffer Lounge, at 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are really excited about this event and are hoping for a great turnout,&#8221; said Valerie Scott, club president.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a great opportunity to learn a little more about soil and fertilization from local experts&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Iryna McDonald<\/strong>&nbsp;from the FHSU Agriculture Department, Assistant Professor of Agronomy&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Jay Harris<\/strong>, District Director and Horticulture Agent from the K-State Research extension, Cottonwood district. This event is open&nbsp;and free&nbsp;to the public\/community&nbsp;and FHSU students alike, so please stop in to collect your free-soil testing kit and learn about what is in your soil! If you have any questions, please email the Sternberg Geoscience&nbsp;Club at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:fhsugeorocks@gmail.com\">fhsugeorocks@gmail.com<\/a>&nbsp;or the club president at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:vcscott@mail.fhsu.edu\">vcscott@mail.fhsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FHSU Sternberg Geoscience Club The Sternberg Geoscience Club is excited to announce our\u00a0spring event,\u00a0\u201cWhat\u2019s in\u00a0Your Soil?\u201d.\u00a0This event was created to bring awareness to over-fertilization&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GeoscienceClub.png?fit=1545%2C2000&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78423,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78421\/revisions\/78423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}