Julio Contreras (he/him/él) is a Community Education Specialist with University of California Cooperative Extension’s Urban Agriculture and Food Systems Program. He provides extension and resources for urban farmers and organizations involved in urban agriculture to improve soil health, water conservation, tree stewardship, integrated pest management and food production. He’s an urban farmer, beekeeper and community organizer/educator receiving his knowledge and experience from his family who were subsistence farmers in Mexico. He earned a BS in Conservation and Resource Studies from the University of California Berkeley with minor studies in Food Systems and Biological Anthropology.