Jacqueline Ricotta
Culinary Arts/Hospitality Instructor/Career and Technical Education/9-12
Originally from Rochester, NY, Jackie graduated from Cornell University and went on to receive a Master’s degree from North Carolina State University and a doctorate from the University of Illinois, all in Horticulture. Her specialization was vegetable production and pest control. Since 2000, Jackie has been a professor of horticulture at Delaware Valley University where she teaches courses in Botany, Sustainable Agriculture, Organic Food & Fiber, Integrated Pest Management, Commercial Vegetable Production, and Marketing of Horticultural Products. Jackie was instrumental in bringing certified organic to the DelVal farm in 2004 and helped start the Organic Farming Certificate program (with partner the Rodale Institute) as well as the Sustainable Agriculture Systems major. Jackie received the DelVal distinguished faculty member award in 2012. She is the co-editor of the textbook “Organic Food, Farming and Culture, which was published by Bloomsbury in 2019\\\. In addition to being on the board of NOFA-NJ, Jackie is active with the American Society for Horticultural Science, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the Bucks County Foodshed Alliance, Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, the Philadelphia chapter of Les Dames D'Escoffier and the DelVal Food Systems Institute.
