Horticulture


 

Instructor: Larry Brown

Text and Materials: Various textbooks, which are used in the classroom, handouts, hands-on experiences, greenhouse work, and outdoor landscaping/campus flowerbeds.

Class is a two-hour daily class.

 

Horticulture I is designed as a one-year, double-period, occupational preparation course; designed to assist students in developing the necessary knowledge, skills, habits, and attitudes for entry employment and advancement in areas such as floriculture, landscape design, greenhouse operation, nursery plant production, and turf management. Students receive instruction in using soil and other plant-growing media and in identifying, propagating, and growing horticultural plants in the green house and land laboratory. Instruction is provided in safety practices and leadership development. This class has also been approved by MECC as a dual credit class..

Specific Objectives

 

Horticulture II is designed as a one-year, double-period, occupational preparation course. Units of instruction include growing greenhouse crops; producing and maintaining nursery crops; establishing, maintaining, and designing landscape plantings; establishing and maintaining turf grass; and operation and operation a garden center. Leadership skills continue to be developed. This class can also be taken as a dual credit through MECC.

Specific Objectives

Horticulture III — Horticulture III is a one-year, advanced, occupational preparation course. Major learning areas include planning and managing horticulture facilities and crops; managing horticultural businesses; and merchandising, advertising, displaying, and selling horticultural products and services. Leadership development is emphasized. This class can also be taken as dual credit through MECC.

Specific Objectives