CERTIFICATE IN RURAL HORTICULTURE

Work in Rural Horticulture

• Farms, Market Gardens, Orchards, Forests
• Rural Roadsides
• Parks and Reserves
• Conservation areas
• Minesites

Learn crop production, landscape maintenance, land rehabilitation to start or develop a career in this 600 hour course.

WHAT SETS ACS APART?

Service – We put the student first.  Tutors and administration can be contacted 5 days a week, 50 weeks of the year, by phone or email.

We provide Better Learning – We’ve been delivering distance education for over 3 decades, and we understand how people learn by home study.

Our methods are unique, developed through experience with a focus squarely on helping you learn.

Up to Date – We are continually revising and updating courses. We listen to our students feed-back and we always improve the course if a change is identified that will help significantly improve your learning.

More Choice – Graduates need a set of skills that will set them apart and give them an advantage over competition in the world after study. We have a wide variety of study choices, and give you lots of options to choose different paths throughout a course. Doing this has meant our graduates very successful.

No Short Cuts –You can’t take short cuts in learning, and that is why our courses are often longer than you will find elsewhere. You could choose to study a short course, quickly sit an exam (while the information is fresh) and pass, but if you want to really understand something and retain it, that takes time.

More than just Learning Facts – We understand that success in the workplace or business requires you to not only learn things, but also build networks, understand the commercial world, be able to solve problems, communicate with people, and have an attitude that will function in your chosen industry.

Modules

Note that each module in the CERTIFICATE IN RURAL HORTICULTURE is a short course in its own right, and may be studied separately.

Land Management 

We are all affected by the nature and quality of the land where we live. When the land beneath our feet is stable we can adapt our living to suit the conditions; constructing appropriate buildings and planting appropriate gardens for the environment. When the environment changes or the land degrades, conditions in the environment are potentially impacted in so many ways.

Consider the things that can cause instability in the land - from climate change to erosion, and contamination or over-use of chemicals to deforestation. With a better understanding of what can go wrong, it is possible to respond and minimise negative impacts on the land.

This course offers more than just understanding and forging macro responses to problems; a big part of managing land is also tackling degraded sites and rehabilitating those sites through the use of appropriate anti-erosion methods and plant establishment techniques.

You have an opportunity here to learn about managing land for any amenity or production purpose in rural areas; to establish and manage plants in a way that is both appropriate and sustainable for the places in which they grow.

WHY CHOOSE US?

• Reputation: well-known and respected in horticulture.
• Industry focus: courses designed to suit industry needs and expectations.
• Different focus: develop problem solving skills that make you stand out from others.
• Hands-on: develop practical as well as theoretical skills.
• Lots of help: dedicated and knowledgeable tutors (faculty of internationally renowned horticulturists).
• Efficient: prompt responses to your questions.
• A long track record: established in 1979 with a solid history.
• Up to date: courses under constant review.
• Resources:  huge wealth of constantly developing intellectual property.
• Value: courses compare very favourably on a cost per study hour basis.
• Student amenities: online student room, bookshop, ebooks, acs garden online resources.