Riccardo has been living with a spinal cord injury since April 2019. After a normal day, he went to bed and in the morning, he woke up paralyzed from the chest down – overnight a cavernoma bled inside his spinal cord causing the paralysis. Since this life changing event, Riccardo carried on his job as piano teacher with a new attention towards disabilities. While completing a Master’s degree in Forestry at the University of Alberta he started a company and now operates Strathcona Microgreens, a urban farm right in the hearth of Edmonton.