Carley Jordana

Carley is from St. Augustine, Florida where she grew up the youngest of 7 kids. She first became interested in agriculture in high school while studying abroad in Quevedo, Ecuador where she lived in an agricultural region of the country and met many local farmers. Carley attended the University of Florida for undergraduate where she majored in Sustainability Studies and pursued minors in Organic and Sustainable Crop Production and Spanish Language. She later went on to pursue her masters at UF in Horticultural Sciences where she researched the effects of grafting on mini watermelon fruit quality and yield in an organic system. In her personal life, Carley loves to read, travel, cook, and tending to her plants.