Job Description Matt has been a horticulture extension agent with NC State University since 2015 and in Chatham County since 2018. His education and outreach program targets home gardeners, ornamental nurseries, and landscape professionals, and he is the program coordinator for the Extension Master Gardener program in Chatham County. He previously worked as a research associate in nut crops for University of California Cooperative Extension and interned at the Arnold Arboretum. Matt was an Erasmus Mundus Fellow and earned his M.Sc. in Horticultural Science jointy from the University of Bologna, Technical University of Munich, and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. He also has a M.S. in Botany and undergraduate degrees in botany and microbiology from the University of Oklahoma.