Biography

Dr. Jeanine Davis is an associate professor and extension specialist in the Department of Horticultural Science at North Carolina State University. Her research and extension program, the NC Alternative Crops and Organics Program, is based at the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center near Asheville, NC. For over 38 years, her program has helped farmers improve the profitability of their forests and farms by growing new crops, adopting forest farming practices, transitioning to organic agriculture, and incorporatingsustainable vegetable production practices. Subjects of her current research and extension programs include goldenseal, ginseng, black cohosh, bloodroot,ramps, hops, truffles, Chinese medicinal herbs, and organic tomatoes. She has published over 150 peer reviewed publications and given over 800 invited presentations in the U.S., Canada, and Chile. She is also the lead author on the book Growing and Marketing Ginseng, Goldenseal and Other Woodland Medicinals. She is a founding board member of the Organic Growers School, board member for the Veterans Healing Farm, and an advisor to the NC Herb Association and the NC Tomato Growers Association. Jeanine and her family operate Our Tiny Farm where they raise and board mini-donkeys.