Education

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Seed Your Future Targets Higher Ed, Vocational Tech Students for Hort Jobs 

Twenty-two members of Seed Your Future’s leadership, representing horticulture sectors from across the country, met to develop new ways to attract and engage a new generation of horticulture and floriculture professionals. The group’s annual planning... more »

Topics, Tour Locations Set for Perennial Plant Association Education Day

The Perennial Plant Association (PPA) will sponsor a series of educational sessions this summer. Monday, August 1 of PPA’s 2022 National Symposium will be Perennial Plant Education Day. Attendees will have the option of attending... more »

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UF Plans Online Greenhouse Training Courses

What’s trending? Plants! What’s in short supply? Employees with horticulture education. Growers are invited to train themselves or current employees with the University of Florida IFAS Extension’s award-winning online program. All Greenhouse Training Online courses... more »

Bonnie Plants Foundation Gift to Create Children’s Garden at Auburn University

The Bonnie Plants Foundation is demonstrating its commitment to agricultural education through a multi-year donation to establish a new two-acre Children's Garden and Pollinator Garden within Auburn University's 16-acre Transformation Garden project. The $1.2 million... more »

Webinar Alert: Learn to Connect with Consumers

The Perennial Plant Association and National Garden Bureau have partnered to present an exciting webinar focused on Connecting with Consumers. With so many dramatic changes having happened over the past 18 months, it is a... more »

Register for GLASE’s November Webinar

GLASE (Greenhouse Lighting & Systems Engineering) will be hosting its next webinar Nov. 16, 2021, at 2:00 p.m. (EDT). The webinar, Light and Energy Modeling in Controlled Environment Agriculture, will be presented by Kale Harbick... more »

Northeast Greenhouse Conference to Feature Sessions on Hydroponic Leafy Greens

The Northeast Greenhouse Conference and Expo is set to take place Nov. 3-4, 2021, at the Boxboro Regency Hotel in Boxborough, Massachusetts. The conference will feature educational sessions on the production of hydroponic leafy greens... more »

DOE to Present Webinar on Cogeneration for Controlled Environments

On Oct. 12, 2021, the Department of Energy's Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Technical Assistance Partnerships will host a special webinar on Combined Heat and Power in Controlled Environment Agriculture. The webinar will take place... more »