Steve Bellavia is a senior product technician at Johnny’s Selected seeds.  He began his career with Johnny’s in 1993 as a call center representative and moved into the commercial sales department the following year. In 1997 Steve transitioned into the research department, where he has since conducted field work on nearly every vegetable crop offered by Johnny’s.  He is particularly passionate about peppers and Asian vegetables. Because a full week of field work on the job doesn’t satisfy all of Steve’s growing and cooking passions, he also takes pride in maintaining a large home garden to grow food for eating year-round.  Steve’s many years of mentorship from former Johnny’s AAS Judge Rob Johnston’s combined with his tenure in the vegetable trialing program makes him the natural choice to become the official vegetable Judge of the company.