Michael is from San Rafael, CA and is an undergraduate student in the V&E department.  "I love horticulture and botany;  I'm passionate about cooking, it's essentially therapeutic;  I'm strangely attracted to tattoos, stinky cheese and cured meats, as well as craft beer and wine; and I spend as much time as possible camping, especially in Joshua Tree and Yosemite."  His work experience includes salesman at Sunnyside Nursery and Landscape Foreman at Boughton Landscaping 2000 - 2006 & intern at Dacalier Wine Company during the 2010 harvest.