I’m taking a solid soils class at Pasadena City College with Dr. Vendrasco. Let’s start there. My friend Mel previously took this class and I was looking forward to signing up for it. The projects we’ve worked on have been distance projects since Covid has really halted most in-person classes, even some with labs have been impacted.
Dr. Vendrasco put these really sweet soil kits together for us, they’re just so precious. Am I nerd? a soil nerd? maybe, I mean I can aspire to be.
I guess if you start getting into plants, it depends how deep down the wormhole you want to go down. I took an oceanography class during the summer and really felt like the plate tectonics foundation was very useful when understanding origins of soils.
We have so many wonderful landscapes in the US and it’s nice to learn about some that may be a few states away but with a very different soil structure than what we’re used to in Southern California.
