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Ben Weiss
Washington State University
United States
Ben is from Philadelphia and has been interested in food systems since an early age. He attended his first natural products expo before kindergarten because his parents worked in the natural foods industry. During late adolescence, he started a prolific tomato garden that blossomed into a B.Sc. in Horticulture from Temple University (TU) in 2019. He interned at the Rodale Institute and then worked at an organic farm in New Jersey as the lead rice cultivator. At this farm he had the opportunity to help problem solve through research, leading him to pursue graduate studies and extension work. He is passionate about sustainable technologies, closed loop agriculture, and urban farming. Ben is ecstatic to begin his M.S. degree program with Dr. Lisa DeVetter in Spring of 2023. He will be helping to develop hydromulch technologies aimed at saving farmers money and creating a biodegradable closed loop mulching system for berry crops.
