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Chico, California
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Seattle is where I grew up, but I've been a long time away. I received undergraduate degrees in anthropology at the University of Washington and horticulture at Washington State University. I farmed and did agricultural extension work in Washington State, New Mexico, and Nepal (Peace Corps '82-'85. I then received my MS and PhD in horticulture from Cornell University studying the design of ecologically sound cropping systems.
For three and a half years, besides growing collard greens and exploring swamps in south Georgia, I helped coordinate a multidisciplinary team of scientists at the USDA-Agricultural Research Service in Tifton, Georgia in the development of REMM, a computer model to s