Free lead screening of your garden soils is available on May 13 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Garden Soil Health Day at the UVM Hort Research Center, 65 Green Mountain Drive in South Burlington. Interested gardeners should bring a soil sample (3 max) in a plastic zip-locked storage bag for screening.

Attendees will also learn how to build and maintain healthy garden soils through informational exhibits, self-guided tours of innovative cover crop research and exchanges with UVM Extension Master Gardener volunteers, USDA NRCS staff and other soil science and health professionals. Learn more at: https://go.uvm.edu/soilhealthday.