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Horticulture Science� Lesson 4�Exploring Career Opportunities in Horticulture

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Interest Approach

Begin the lesson by having students look through the classified section of the local newspaper. Have students identify jobs related to horticulture and agriculture.

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Instruct them to choose one and list 5 to 10 skills needed to ensure success in that job. Next, ask the students to explain how they would prepare for this job.

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When the students have completed this exercise, call on several to share their information with the class..

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Student Learning Objectives

  • List skills you should have to ensure success in a horticulture career.

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  • Determine how to prepare for a horticulture career.

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  • Appraise examples of horticulture jobs and careers.
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  • Create an electronic poster of one landscape career, detailing the description, salary, education, tools, skills, daily task for it

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Terms

  • arboretum
  • botanical garden
  • career
  • career goal
  • garden center
  • goal setting
  • horticultural garden
  • job

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Terms

  • landscape maintenance
  • landscape nursery
  • nursery production
  • occupation
  • personal skills

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What are skills you need in order to be successful in a horticulture career?

  • Horticulture careers require an understanding of both science and business.
  • Opportunities in the horticulture industry are plentiful, but in order to be successful a person must be skilled in a number of areas.

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What are skills you need in order to be successful in a horticulture career?

  1. A person must have an understanding of plant needs and plant growth.
  2. Plants can be adversely affected if fertilization, growing schedules, cutting schedules, irrigation, and temperature are not adequately regulated.
  3. Likewise, insects and diseases can also be harmful to plant crops if not monitored carefully.

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What are skills you need in order to be successful in a horticulture career?

2. Mechanical skills are also important in horticulture careers.

  • Irrigation systems require a general understanding of plumbing, heating and ventilation systems in greenhouses may require work, and basic construction may be necessary to build benches or make minor repairs.

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What are skills you need in order to be successful in a horticulture career?

3. Also, understanding how to use, maintain, and repair hand tools, power tools, and equipment is essential.

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What are skills you need in order to be successful in a horticulture career?

4. An understanding of marketing skills is also necessary in any horticulture career.

  • It is important to know both the wholesale and retail worth of the product being sold.

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5. Administrative skills are necessary for anyone who has employees working for them.

  • A business owner or manager is responsible for hiring and firing employees and assigning tasks.

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What are skills you need in order to be successful in a horticulture career?

  • It is also very important for people in horticulture careers to be familiar with the legal aspects of business.

6. Know Local, state, and national laws to reduce the risk of legal problems.

  • Laws regarding the proper use of chemicals are especially critical to horticulture employees.

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How can a person prepare for a horticulture career?

  • A career is the direction a person’s life takes as related to his or her choice of work.
  • Before choosing a career in horticulture, a person should be involved in horticulture related jobs or occupations to see if that career is the best choice.
  • A job is the work a person performs for wages and benefits. (Just Over Broke)
  • An occupation is work that has a title and specified duties.

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How can a person prepare for a horticulture career?

  1. To be successful in a career, a person must be productive and have the necessary personal skills.
  2. Personal skills are a person’s abilities to relate to others productively.

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How can a person prepare for a horticulture career?

  1. Being successful in a career requires setting and achieving goals.
  2. A career goal is a level of accomplishment a person wants to attain in a career.
  3. Goals can change as a person changes, but goal setting does not.
  • Goal setting is the first step in describing what a person wants to do in life.

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What are examples of jobs and careers in the horticulture field?

  • Jobs and careers in horticulture can be in the position of an employee or as an entrepreneur.
  • An employee is someone who works for someone else, while entrepreneurs work for themselves.

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What are examples of jobs and careers in the horticulture field?

  • Jobs and careers can be in the following industries:
    • landscape horticulture,
    • floriculture,
    • olericulture and pomology,
    • turfgrass,
    • and other general areas

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What are examples of jobs and careers in the horticulture field?

  • Education and training is also important in preparing for a horticulture career.
  • A person can receive horticulture training in high school, community or junior college, and college.
  • Education should be related to plant and soil science and to plant structures and functions.

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What are examples of jobs and careers in the horticulture field?

  • Nursery production involves growing plants in containers or fields.
  • Plants can be grown from seeds, cuttings, or grafts.
  • Jobs and occupations in nursery production supervisor include

propagator, inventory manager, field supervisor, manager, salesperson, sales manager, and shipping.

Landscape horticulture

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What are examples of jobs and careers in the horticulture field?

  • The landscape nursery industry prepares sites for landscaping and purchases the items needed for a landscape design.
  • Jobs and occupations in the landscape nursery industry include construction supervisor, designer, and salesperson.

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What are examples of jobs and careers in the horticulture field?

  • Landscape maintenance work involves caring for already established landscapes.
  • Mowing, pruning, weed control, and fertilization are all examples of landscape maintenance work.
  • Jobs and occupations in the landscape maintenance industry include crew supervisor, superintendent of operations, salesperson, and manager.

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What are examples of jobs and careers in the horticulture field?

  • The plants and seeds used by commercial growers come from large operations.
  • These large operations are able to mass produce seeds and plants.
  • Examples of jobs and occupations related to this industry include plant breeder, propagator, independent grower, sales manager, and salesperson.

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What are examples of jobs and careers in the horticulture field?

  • The heart of the retail nursery industry is the garden center.
  • A garden center offers consumers plant materials and supplies needed to maintain a garden or landscape.
  • Jobs and occupations related to the retail nursery industry include buyer, landscape designer, plant technician, and manager.

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What are examples of jobs and careers in the horticulture field?

  • Arboretums and botanical gardens offer both job and educational opportunities for people interested in horticulture.
  • An arboretum is a natural setting of trees, shrubs, and vines.
  • A botanical garden is a plant collection habitat.

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What are examples of jobs and careers in the horticulture field?

  • A horticultural garden is an arranged garden that contains a variety of horticultural plants.
  • Jobs and careers related to arboretums and botanical and horticultural gardens include writer, researcher, propagator, educational director, librarian, director, curator, and greenhouse manager.

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What are examples of jobs and careers in the horticulture field?

  • Floriculture production involves growing floral plants and materials.
  • Examples of floriculture jobs and occupations include grower, production superintendent, marketing manager, and inventory controller.

Floriculture

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What are examples of jobs and careers in the horticulture field?

  • Wholesale florists sell both floral products and materials used in floral designs.
  • Jobs and occupations related to the wholesale floral industry include manager, buyer, and salesperson.
  • A retail florist shop is a business in which people can find floral products.
  • Jobs and occupations related to the retail floral industry include store manager, sales clerk, and designer.

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What are examples of jobs and careers in the horticulture field?

Pomology and olericulture

  • Production varies according to the crop being raised and where it is being raised.
  • Examples of jobs and occupations in food crop production include manager and field technician.
  • Marketing is also important in the food crop production industry.
  • Examples of jobs and occupations in the food crop marketing industry include sales agent and broker.

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What are examples of jobs and careers in the horticulture field?

Turfgrass

  • Sod production is the mass production of turfgrass.
  • Jobs and occupations related to the sod production industry include farm manager, assistant farm manager, spray technician, and staff leader.

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What are examples of jobs and careers in the horticulture field?

  • Turfgrass establishment involves a site where turfgrass has already been installed and requires maintenance.
  • Examples of jobs and occupations in the turfgrass establishment industry include construction superintendent and planting superintendent.

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What are examples of jobs and careers in the horticulture field?

  • Golf course design and maintenance involves workers designing and caring for golf course landscapes.
  • Jobs and occupations related to golf course maintenance and design include golf course architect, superintendent, assistant superintendent, irrigation technician, spray technician, landscape technician, and equipment operator.

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What are examples of jobs and careers in the horticulture field?

  • Other career areas related to horticulture include horticulture therapist, cooperative extension agent, horticultural specialist, consultant, teacher, research scientist, and plant inspector.

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Review/Summary

  • What are skills you need in order to be successful in a horticulture career?

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  • How can a person prepare for a horticulture career?

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  • What are examples of jobs and careers in the horticulture field?