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Paging my fellow Germans; I found a job posting and i would like some second opinions before bothering. IMPROOVE
posted 1 year ago by DeplorableGerman on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +4Score on mirror )
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Yggdrasill on scored.co
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If you can get a job at a local arboretum or botanical garden, they probably pay like shit for the first few years but you can transfer those skills into landscaping or farming. Usually botanical gardens offer classes which can lead to certifications, and those can lead a lot of different directions.
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Yggdrasill on scored.co
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Are you asking if you should bother with finishing school and just bail on that to do agriculture stuff? I would probably just be looking at what you could go to school for agriculture for - there are some really cool pathways you can choose in agricultural fields at university. Just depends on how much you like it. Doing something like a botanical garden job would be more like doing something like a 2-year degree (we call it an Associates degree) where you’d be gaining experience and taking classes there to try to leverage that into a career in the field. But you could also do a 4 year degree in agriculture, but you’ll probably be getting a lot of pro-pesticide, pro-GMO education in either of those options.
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Yggdrasill on scored.co
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Well I went down the path of doing classes at a botanical garden at one point, and they were actually very thorough and useful. It’s not just “here’s how you prune plants”, it was pretty comprehensive: there were classes about soil composition and how to properly troubleshoot issues with your plants with what nutrients may be missing from your soil, had some classes on pest management, which had some overlap with pesticides but it wasn’t all about pesticides, a lot of it was about diagnosing what bugs your plants have, how to troubleshoot fungal issues, etc. Some classes on pruning techniques (year round, it differs by season). Some classes on pairing plants for gardening.

My point being, even though you will be exposed to a sort of “rah rah pesticides and GMOs!”, you can kind of pick and choose what you want to implement, and there are tons of alternative agriculture schools/online groups where you could leverage permaculture techniques with some of the mainstream stuff you’d learn doing something like a garden job.
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JesusSupporter33 on scored.co
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If you're looking to develop serious and proper "planting and caring" knowledge, landscape is not the correct route. Landscapers usually have a very limited knowledge of plants. It usually stops at what to pull from a garden and what not to pull. As far as cultivation of grass and such things, there is a very distinct lack among them. It all comes down to and ends at "what can I spray on this area to kill weeds."

Now there are artisan landscapers out there but they are few and far between, usually working high class golf courses and estates.
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JesusSupporter33 on scored.co
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Personally I'd start by calling up establishments that keep an impeccable garden, asking who maintains it then giving them a call. It depends on what and why you're trying to learn though. If you want to be a botanist then the niche high class gardener might be the best option. If you want to get into basic farming then agriculture would be best.
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