Nicolas Perez

Responsible for accessioning, cataloging, and uploading fungi observations to the UCSC Norris Center Fungarium and Mycoportal to facilitate further research. Additionally, time was spent refining identification and microscopy skills.

Performed the day-to-day operations, ensuring the farm's success by taking on several tasks like seed collecting, crop harvesting, plant starting, irrigation installation, fertilizer application, seed cataloging, weeding, cleaning, electrical repairs, landscaping, disease management, pest management, pruning, animal care, customer service, business development, and recruitment of new workers.

• Maintained farm and garden through use of various organic agricultural practices like composting, pruning, assessing plant health for disease, and managing pest populations, while facilitating, organization, team-building, and optimization of tasks with coworkers

• Gained experience pruning, irrigating, harvesting, preparing beds, and deploying several other methods of urban agriculture