Course Description

Program Description With gardening as the country's fastest growing leisure activity, people are spending more time and money on their property. A Horticulture Technician provides product and service expertise with landscape design and construction as well as grounds maintenance. The technician is trained to operate greenhouses and manage retail garden centres including the care of interior plants in commercial complexes. This program will appeal to those with a self proclaimed “green thumb” as well as a strong interest in nature and environmental issues. PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS Two distinct streams. Design/Construction focuses on landscape design/planning/installation; Horticulture focuses on the growing of plants. Students work with the College on maintenance and installation of the College's 100 acre campus arboretum. Students also have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience working at various sites affiliated with the College, including an 11-acre wooded lot in East Windsor, retail garden centre at Sears Canada Inc., Devonshire Mall, and Arboriculture and Outdoor Floriculture sites including King's Navy Yard / Seagram Park in Amherstburg. These “living labs”/satellite grounds are both learning environments and a source of summer employment. Please Note: Work practicum may be on the day or afternoon shifts anywhere within Windsor-Essex County. Students are required to provide their own transportation. The College is not able to guarantee locations in Windsor and/ or on a bus route.) Located in the “banana belt” of Canada, with one of the country's longest growing seasons, allowing for the study of a wide spectrum of exotic plants, as well as access to the “backdoor” of the country's largest greenhouse growing area. In recent years the Horticulture Team has achieved Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals in the Canada/Skills Landscaping Gardening Competition held at the National Trade Show “Canada Blooms”. Strong community involvement assisting with design solutions for community and municipal projects. Students will be prepared to pursue Landscape Ontario's Landscape Industry Certified Technician Exam, and also receive training for certification in Pesticides (Technician and Exterminator), Front End Loader/Skid Steer Operator and Chainsaw Certification. Summer paid employment opportunities right here within our program! We hire our students for sales in our retail store at Sears, grass cutting & maintenance on college property, garden maintenance at our private 11 acre site, King's Navy Yard / Seagram Park

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