Dr. Tim Bowles keeps asking, “How can reliance on biodiversity and ecological processes create productive, resilient, and healthy agricultural systems?” His research to answer this question is channeled through his position as Assistant Professor of Agroecology and Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. Tim’s Growing Roots role entails conducting ecological research on innovative urban farming technologies and techniques, folding in economic and social context. His research and much of that in his Agroecology Lab lies at the intersection of agroecology, soil ecology, and biogeochemistry with a focus on plant-soil-microbe interactions.