Rob Bennaton is the University of California Cooperative Extension’s Bay Area Urban Agriculture Advisor, supporting small scale food growers, extending knowledge on urban soil quality/resource management and urban ag policy. Rob teaches on urban soil management and heavy metals exposure prevention, works with local groups on mapping urban food growing sites in the San Francisco Bay Area, and specializes in providing technical assistance on urban ag/community garden-site governance. Based in Alameda County, he addresses urban ag related questions and can be found via the UC ANR Urban Ag website, with many presentations and short fact sheets available. Prior to UCCE, he was a Community Coordinator at the NYC Housing Authority’s Garden & Greening Program.