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Horticulture & Landscape Contracting

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This new program prepares students for many job opportunities, both in and out of doors.  Horticulture deals with fruit and vegetable plants, foliage plants, flowers, trees, shrubs, and turf.  In Landscape Contracting  students learn the art and science of planning, constructing, and managing landscape spaces.  Students study plant materials, planting design, plant maintenance, business management, soils, plant nutrition  and pest control.

Students in this program are working to beautify our school campus.

 

Career Opportunities

  • Interior Plantscaper
  • Landscape Design
  • Greenhouse Manager
  • Garden center / Nursery manager
  • Golf Course Greenskeepers
  • Horticulturist
  • Arborist
  • Groundskeeper / Grounds Maintenance
  • Lawncare specialist

Career Highlights

Graduates of this program can pursue many career options, including professional lawn and garden care, maintenance of recreational facilities, landscape design, and sales and marketing of garden products.  Well-managed, environmentally sound landscapes are increasingly in demand.

 

See also 

Horticulture and LandscapeTechlinks

for quality website information.


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Equal Educational Opportunity
Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School admits students and makes available to them high school advantages, privileges and courses of study without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender or disability.

 
Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School
220 Sandwich Road, Bourne, MA 02532
Tel/TTY: 508-759-7711 Fax: 508-759-7208
   
Last updated: September 6, 2008