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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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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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