Horticulture

Horticulture

• Format: Full Time
• Offered: Multiple intakes
• Program Duration: 35 weeks
• Delivery Location: Kamloops, BC

Horticulture

Horticulture is the culture of vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, turf grass, and ornamental plants. The settings for this culture may extend from the back yard grower to large commercial operations, such as green houses, orchards, vegetable farms, turfgrass operations, forestry seedling nurseries, garden centers, golf courses, municipal parks, landscaping, and landscape maintenance firms.

People working in the horticulture industry should have a strong interest in plants and like the hands on aspect of the work. Depending on the scope of work, many of the positions within the industry involve working outside in a variety of weather conditions.

Where is employment found?

Graduates find employment in a wide range of positions within the industry. These include landscaping and maintenance, retail and wholesale nurseries, garden centers, municipal parks, supply companies, commercial greenhouses, orchards, golf courses, and self employment. Depending on experience and training, positions could be as entry-level workers, lead hands, foremen, supervisors or owner/operators.

Admission Requirements

• Youth Train in Trades - in grade 12 (all core grad requirements completed apart from CLC A and B, and senior electives)
• Minimum English 12 or English First Peoples 12 – 67% plus
• Minimum Foundations of Mathematics 11 or Pre-Calculus 11 – 67% plus
• All Core grad requirements completed: 
  • Senior Grad requirements include: English 12 or English First Peoples 12, English 11, Senior Socials, Senior Math (Foundations or Mathematics 11 or Pre-Calculus 11), and a Senior Science 
  • All grade 10 grad requirements