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Chloe Seeborg, Utah State University:
Chloe is from Draper, UT, where she loved gardening with her parents. After working at the Bridger Community Garden as a Cache County Extension Intern, she graduated with a B.S. in Conservation and Restoration Ecology with a minor in Soil Science in 2025. Now the data and writing technicnan for the USU Small Farms Lab, Chloe focuses on analyzing irrigation rates and sustainable water-saving practices for cut flowers.
Melanie Stock, Utah State University:
Melanie is an Assistant Professor / Extension Urban & Small Farms Specialist in the Plants, Soils, and Climate Department at USU. As a soil scientist, her research targets improving cut flower production in the Intermountain West, small farm resource use efficiency – particularly soil fertility and water management, and urban soil contamination. She is also an avid urban homesteader.
Claudia Nischwitz, Utah State University:
Claudia Nischwitz is Associate Professor and Extension Plant Pathology Specialist at USU since 2010. She works on diseases of plants with focus on vegetable, cut flowers, grape, and alfalfa diseases and insect pests. In addition, she does diagnostics for the Utah Plant Pest Diagnostic lab.
Chloe Seeborg, Utah State University:
Chloe is from Draper, UT, where she loved gardening with her parents. After working at the Bridger Community Garden as a Cache County Extension Intern, she graduated with a B.S. in Conservation and Restoration Ecology with a minor in Soil Science in 2025. Now the data and writing technicnan for the USU Small Farms Lab, Chloe focuses on analyzing irrigation rates and sustainable water-saving practices for cut flowers.
Melanie Stock, Utah State University:
Melanie is an Assistant Professor / Extension Urban & Small Farms Specialist in the Plants, Soils, and Climate Department at USU. As a soil scientist, her research targets improving cut flower production in the Intermountain West, small farm resource use efficiency – particularly soil fertility and water management, and urban soil contamination. She is also an avid urban homesteader.
Claudia Nischwitz, Utah State University:
Claudia Nischwitz is Associate Professor and Extension Plant Pathology Specialist at USU since 2010. She works on diseases of plants with focus on vegetable, cut flowers, grape, and alfalfa diseases and insect pests. In addition, she does diagnostics for the Utah Plant Pest Diagnostic lab.
