Jessica's research project takes an interdisciplinary approach to subsistence and commercial gardening in first century AD Pompeii, up to the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. In her thesis Jessica explores the ancient experience of garden agriculture in Pompeii and the impact of the town's urban productive gardens on local nutrition, income, urban development, and social factors. In utilising literary, pictorial, epigraphic, spatial, archaeobotanical, and archaeological evidence from Pompeii in a multidisciplinary study, she examines the monetary and non-monetary economies operating around the urban agricultural gardens and the many forms these spaces took in domestic and commercial settings in the final decades of the city’s life. The mapping of productive gardens already identified in previous excavations, as well as the identification of as yet unidentified sites, will form a part of this analysis.