Understanding The Horticulture Industry

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Understanding The Horticulture Industry

• PLSC

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Unit Essential Question

• Why is the Horticulture industry so important?

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Daily Essential Question

• Why is the horticulture industry popular?

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Warm-Up

• Each table has a grocery store advertisement.
• Make a list of fruit and vegetables that you see
  in the advertisement

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Objectives

• Describe the popularity of horticulture.
• Explain the importance of the ornamental
  horticulture industry.
• Explain the importance of the olericulture
  industry.
• Explain the importance of the pomology industry.

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What is Horticulture?

• Break down Comes from the combination of horti
  meaning grass, and culture
• Definition
• Industry and science dealing with the cultivation
  of plants
• What is cultivation?
• Growing of plants and crops

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Why Horticulture?
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Why Horticulture?

• Food!
• Berries
• Corn
• Nuts
• Vegetables
• Landscape
• Trees
• Shrubs

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Where did it all start?

• Remember history class?
• Humans started as hunter-gatherers
• Constantly on the move!
• Started small scale horticulture
• Planted variety of crops in small area
• DIFFERS FROM AGRICULTURE ! Large scale Single
  crop
• Some cultures these crops were only tended by
  women

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How did it get here?

• All crops were moved by humans
• Majority of crops started in the CENTERS OF
  ORIGIN area around the world

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What happened next?

• Communities increased
• Required more FOOD
• Larger crops needed!
• Industrial Age
• Machinery, large scale crop production

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Where does it stand today?
Crop Acres harvested (million acres) earned (billions)
Corn 72.7 15.1
Soybeans 72.7 12.5
Hay 59.9 3.4
Wheat 53 5.5
Cotton 13.1 4.6
Rice 3 1.2
What do you think this means for Horticulture
Production ? What might influence these numbers?
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So whats the Big deal?

• Advantages in horticulture
• Increase in food
• Increase in Jobs
• Increase in aesthetic pleasure

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How far can you go in horticulture?

• Possible Degrees
• Associates
• Bachelors
• Masters
• Doctoral

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A few areas in the Ornamental Horticulture
industry

• Floriculture
• Multibillion dollar industry
• 4 billion market
• California and Florida are top producers
• Landscape Horticulture
• over 40 billion spent on landscape and gardening
  products in 1994
• over 13 billion spent on professional landscape
  and lawn services in 1994

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Olericulture

• production of vegetable food crops worth
• over 14 billion of the U.S. farm receipts
• California leads in both fresh and processed
  vegetable production
• grown on 1 percent of the U.S. cropland
• Fruit utilizes land that cannot normally be used

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Pomology

• production of fruit and nut crops
• 3.5 million acres of the U.S. are used to raise
  fruits and nuts
• the U.S. is one of the worlds top producers of
  fruits and nuts

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Class Activities

• Side 1 of your worksheet will be completed
  individually
• Side 2 of your worksheet can be worked on as a
  group.

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Closing

• Word Wall
• Olericulture, Pomology
• Exit Question
• What is the environment and what are issues
  related to the environment?
• Next Class
• Impact of Horticulture on the environment

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_at_ Home Research Project

• Produce a 1 page double spaced summary about the
  origin of a crop. Cite Sources in APA style
  format.
• Pick one of the following crops (No repeats
  please!)
• Corn (maize), Soybean, Cucumbers, Onions,
  Tomatoes, Ginseng, Rice, Eggplant, Sesame, Sugar
  Cane, Bamboo, Nutmeg, Carrots, Celery,
  Peppermint, Lima bean, Peanut

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Horticulture Industry Impact
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Essential Question

• How is horticulture beneficial to the environment?

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Warm- Up

• Define the term
• Environment
• Describe your surrounding environment

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Objectives

• 1. Explain environment and issues related to the
  environment.
• 2. Explain how horticulture is beneficial to the
  environment.
• 3. Explain how horticulture can damage the
  environment.
• 4. Identify how natural resources can be affected
  by horticultural practices.
• 5. Identify how chemicals used in horticulture
  can affect the environment.

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What is an environment?

• Definition the air, water, minerals, organisms,
  and all other external factors surrounding and
  affecting a given organism at any time.
• Consists of
• Biotic living
• Abiotic- nonliving

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Environment Continued

• Horticulture can control and effect the
• Macroenvironment - is the large atmosphere around
  a plant
• Microenvironment- is the area immediately
  surrounding a plant.

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Public Demand

• How do your produce high quality at low cost?
• Intensive land use
• IPM practices
• Biotech and Genetic Engineering

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Horticultural Benefits

• Recreational setting
• Golf courses
• Biological
• Prevent erosion, slow water runoff, absorb
  pollutants, control dust
• Landscaping
• Improves value of housing

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Horticulture Impacts

• Pollution harm caused to the environment by
  improperly applied chemicals
• Point source pollution pollution from easily
  identifiable sources
• Nonpoint source pollution pollution from few to
  many sources, it is not easily identifiable

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The Hydrologic Cycle
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How does the Hydrologic Cycle cause pollution?

• Eutrophication
• is an overabundance of nutrients in lakes or
  streams, it is caused by excessive fertilizer
  running off of nearby fields.
• Most fertilizers are high in nitrogen

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The Nitrogen Cycle
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Nitrogen Cycle and Horticulture

• When excess nitrogen is introduced to the
  nitrogen cycle and mixed with nitrates found in
  the soil, the result could be an increase in
  nitrates found in groundwater.
• Causes
• Human health concerns !

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Pesticides The main concern

• What are they?
• Chemicals used to kill plant and animal pests
• Pesticide residue has been proven to
• cause problems such as water contamination,
  emergence of resistant pest populations, and
  decline in certain bird populations.
• DDT

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How do we fix this?

• Reduce the need for pesticides
• Healthy plants do not need pesticides!
• Pesticides enter the environment in many ways
• Using pesticides properly can prevent leaching
  and surface runoff
• Plant buffer zones for filtration
• Protect areas around water sources from erosion

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Class Activities

• Work Independently on side 1 of your worksheet.
• Side 2 of your worksheet is due Friday.
• CITE YOUR SOURCES

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Review Quiz!

• You can use your notes.
• NOT YOUR NEIGHBOR

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Closing

• Word Wall
• Eutrophication, Abiotic, Biotic, Pollution, Non
  Point, Point Source
• Exit Question
• What are skills you should possess to be
  successful in a horticulture career?

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Concept Map!
Unit Name Horticulture Industry
Unit EQ Why is the Hort Industry so important?
Vocab Olericulture, Pomology, Eutrophication,
Abiotic, Biotic, Pollution, Non Point, Point
Source
EQs 1. Why is the Hort industry so popular? 2.
How is the Hort industry beneficial to the
environment?
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Horticulture Careers
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Essential Question

• What are skills you should possess to be
  successful in a horticulture career?

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Warm- Up

• Look at the classified on the website provided .
  Answer the following questions
• What types of job do you see?
• What do you think are some requirements for ONE
  of these jobs?

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Objectives

• 1. List skills you should have to ensure success
  in a horticulture career.
• 2. Explain how to prepare for a horticulture
  career.
• 3. List examples of horticulture jobs and careers.

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Horticulture Careers

• Require
• Understanding of both science and business
• Mechanical skills
• Marketing skills
• Administrative skills
• Knowledge of legal aspects of business
• Why do you think all of these are important?

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What is a career?

• Definition is the direction a persons life
  takes as related to their choice of work.
• A job is the work a person performs for a salary
  and benefits.
• An occupation is work that has a title and
  specified duties.

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What does it take to be successful?

• Productive
• Personal Skills
• persons abilities to relate to others
  productively.
• Requires
• Setting and achieving goals
• Career goal level of accomplishment a person
  wants to attain in a career.

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What does it take to be successful continued

• Education
• Related to
• Plant and soil sciences, structures and functions
• AVAILABLE THROUGH FFA!
• Training
• Can receive training in high school

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Horticulture CDEs in FFA

• Forestry
• Nursery and Landscape
• Floriculture
• Agronomy
• Job interview

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Career Areas in Horticulture

• Nursery production involves growing plants in
  containers or fields.
• Jobs include propagator, inventory manager,
  field supervisor, manager, salesperson, sales
  manager, and shipping supervisor.
• Landscape Industry prepares sites for
  landscaping and purchases the items needed for a
  landscape design.
• Jobs include construction supervisor, designer,
  and salesperson.

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Career Areas Continued

• Landscape Maintenance involves caring for
  already established landscapes.
• Jobs include crew supervisor, superintendent of
  operations, salesperson, and manager.
• Seed Production
• Jobs include plant breeder, propagator,
  independent grower, sales manager, and
  salesperson.

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Career Areas continued

• Garden Center offer consumers plant materials
  and supplies needed to maintain a garden or
  landscape.
• Jobs include buyer, landscape designer, plant
  technician, and manager.

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Other areas for careers

• Arboretum is a natural setting of trees, shrubs,
  and vines
• Botanical Garden plant collection habitat.
• Horticultural Garden an arranged garden that
  contains a variety of horticulture plants.
• Jobs include writer, researcher, propagator,
  educational director, librarian, director,
  curator, and greenhouse manager.

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Floriculture Industry Careers

• Floriculture Production
• Wholesale Florist
• Retail Florist Shop
• Jobs include grower, production superintendent,
  marketing manager, and inventory controller,
  manager, buyer, and Salesperson, store manager,
  sales clerk, and designer.

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Pomology and Olericulture

• Production
• Marketing
• Jobs include manager, field technician, sales
  agent and broker.

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Turf Grass Management

• Sod Production
• Turfgrass establishment
• Golf course design and maintenance

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Other Possible Careers

• Horticulture therapist, cooperative extension
  agent, horticultural specialist, consultant,
  teacher, research scientist, and plant inspector.

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Class Activity

• What career is right for you?
• http//www.ffa.org/index.cfm?methodc_job.CareerSe
  arch

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Review Quiz!

• You may use your notes
• NOT YOUR NEIGHBOR!

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Closing

• Word Wall
• Career, Career Goal, Personal Skills
• Exit Question
• Why is safety important in horticulture?
• Next Class
• Safety in Horticulture

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Safety in Horticulture
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Essential Question

• What is personal protective equipment?

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Warm-Up

• What type of safety equipment does a football
  player wear?
• What type of safety equipment does a scientist
  wear?

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Objectives

• 1. Explain the importance of safety in
  horticulture.
• 2. Define personal protective equipment and give
  examples.
• 3. Identify safety precautions necessary when
  handling, applying, and storing chemicals.

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Importance of Safety in Horticulture

• How would you define being safe?
• How would you define safety?
• Safety in Horticulture includes safe practices to
  prevent injury and loss
• What do you think is meant by loss?

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What could go wrong?

• Accidents are what?
• Unpredictable, Unintentional
• More likely in Hazardous situations
• Hazards is defined as
• Dangers where risks are present
• Accidents leading cause of death
• More than 900,000 / year

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Areas of Concerns in Horticulture

• Pest Control
• Safety with machinery
• Safety with tractors and large equipment
• What could prevent accidents ?

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PPE Personal Protective Equipment

• Worn to help protect people from injury

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1. Eyes

• Eyes protection can vary with the type of job
  being performed.
• What type of eye protection is available on
  school grounds?

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2. Ears

• Protects ears
• Especially around loud machinery !

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3. Lungs

• To protect lungs and respiratory pathways
• When would you use respiration equipment in
  horticulture?

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4. Skin and Body

• Worn to protect skin, body, and clothes
• When would we use skin and body PPE?

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Symbols to Know!
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When to know safety in horticulture?

• Before handling
• READ THE LABEL!
• All the information you need to know is there!
• When applying chemicals
• READ THE LABEL

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WHY!?

• To protect the health of humans and animals and
  help protect the environment, it is important to
  store chemicals properly.
• Keep chemicals in well ventilated area, properly
  lighted, away from temperature extremes

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All you need to know, is on the label!
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Review Quiz!

• You may use your notes
• NOT YOUR NEIGHBOR!

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Closing

• Word Wall
• PPE
• Exit Question
• How will you protect yourself in the classroom
  when using horticulture products?

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Review
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Concepts

• Horticulture is important to health and the
  economy
• Horticulture careers require knowledge of science
  and buisness
• Safety is everyones concern