RESEARCH
Worldwide population increase and urbanization have created significant challenges to food security and safety. The expansion of urban food deserts and the consequent increase of food transport distances also make the urban population more difficult and expensive to access fresh, nutritious produce.
As a doctoral student at the University of Connecticut, I worked on the technical and financial feasibility of GREENBOX Technology for fresh vegetable crop production in urban settings. I am grateful to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for supporting this research project. While at it, I taught a lot, was an American HortScholar 2021, and grew a lot of lettuce!
I founded this research group consisting of highly motivated and talented students at FGCU to continue working to further our understanding of Controlled Environment Agriculture and Regenerative Agriculture. My students are working on 11 different projects and manuscripts that will look into:
As a doctoral student at the University of Connecticut, I worked on the technical and financial feasibility of GREENBOX Technology for fresh vegetable crop production in urban settings. I am grateful to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for supporting this research project. While at it, I taught a lot, was an American HortScholar 2021, and grew a lot of lettuce!
I founded this research group consisting of highly motivated and talented students at FGCU to continue working to further our understanding of Controlled Environment Agriculture and Regenerative Agriculture. My students are working on 11 different projects and manuscripts that will look into:
- the environmental justice facets of Controlled Environment Agriculture
- the assessment of growth performance of different crops using CEA
- the assessment of different hydroponic techniques in CEA
- growth of soil based crops to compare resource consumption with CEA
- the comparative performance of plug preparation with different fertilizer sources
- the comparative performance of white, purple, and orange light using CEA
- the comparative performance using different light durations for crop production
- lettuce crop production using CEA from Home Waste-Energy Systems
- the comparative study of the utilization of compost for crop production
- the comparative study of the utilization of no-till agriculture for crop production
- the comparative study of the utilization of cover crops for crop production
(picture location - University of Connecticut)