Our Team

Phoebe Gordon is the Orchards Systems Advisor for Madera and Merced Counties. She covers almonds, pistachios, figs, prunes, and olives, as well as other tree crops (but not citrus!) She has been working for cooperative extension since January 2017. Her areas of focus are in horticulture, soils, and plant nutrition. Phoebe got her doctorate in Horticulture and Crop Science from The Ohio State University and her Bachelor’s in Science from University of California, Davis, where she studied Plant Biology.

Phoebe has done work examining almond and fig varieties, pistachio pruning, and insect pests in figs.