My name is Joaquín Andrés Chong Núñez, I was born in Quito, Ecuador. When I was two years old, my family immigrated to Puerto Rico. My father, originally from China, died when he was young and my mother is from Ecuador. I have two brothers who live in New York. I studied my first years in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. I lived in Austria as an intercultural exchange student, lived in Florida, and moved back to Puerto Rico to study Horticulture at the University of Puerto Rico. I then moved to Michigan and graduated with a Master’s degree in Floriculture from Michigan State University. I got married and moved to Chicago, where I worked at Ball Seed, where I learned project- and product-management. Then I moved to South Carolina, where I finished a PhD in plant physiology from Clemson University. In 2006 I started working at UPR Agricultural Experimental Station. I have been a UPRM Senator, member of the Fertilizer Board, editor of the compost regulation in PR and member of the Board of Directors of the Puerto Rico Recycling Coalition, among others. My work focuses on sustainable food production, with an emphasis on compost, nutrient balance, and soil protection. I have a page at youtube.com/compostapr with more than 260,000 followers and millions of views, where I post presentations and teach how to make gardens. I aspire to personal development, unity with being, social development, sustainable methodologies, coexistence, low consumerism, social changes among others. I have three children and I live with my partner between Lares and San Juan, Puerto Rico.