While she didn’t grow up on a farm, Bianca Bailey always had a fascination with agriculture and engineering.
The summer before sixth grade, the Texas native attended a research apprenticeship program at Kentucky State University where she took soil samples from a tomato farm and examined pesticide infiltration in groundwater. Fast forward to when she was working on her master’s degree and her research entailed using tea to kill human and pig rotavirus.
“I had this entrepreneurial aspect to me, and I wanted to do something in water treatment,” Bailey told FarmWeek, adding she also was encouraged down that path by an adviser.