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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.