Sneak Peek
Self Paced 20-hour course to help you understand more about Nursery Management.
This 20 hour course will help you understand the fundamental core business functions required to successfully manage and run a successful and profitable plant nursery business.
There are many different types of nurseries that can offer both retail and wholesale plants.
The key to profit and a successful business operation in growing plants is planning, being organised and growing plants efficiently. This course will help you understand what you will need to do so that you can manage and profitable nursery business.
We aim to show you ways to make a difference to the financial viability, hence the success, of any nursery, irrespective of size or type.
Our 20 hour courses are self paced and will help you understand a topic in a short amount of time. You can work through the course when you like- test yourself with mini-tests along the way. There are extra case studies or research you can undertake if you would really like to get into the topic. Once you have completed the lessons and self assessment tasks, there is a final exam undertaken online- you can then download your personalised certificate.
What do you learn? Take a look inside:
LESSON 1 INTRODUCTION TO THE NURSERY INDUSTRY
- The industry
- Professional organisations
- Nursery accreditation
- Types of nurseries
- What to grow
- How to grow
- Nursery standards
- Starting out as a nursery producer
- Assessing opportunities
- Trends in the retail nursery/garden centre industry
- Review what you have been learning
LESSON 2 THE NURSERY SITE
- Area of the nursery site
- Nursery site and location
- Nursery design
- Designing for effective environmental management
- Review what you have been learning
LESSON 3 NURSERY MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT
- Containers
- Labels
- Stakes, trellises and trainers
- Mulches
- Nursery tools and equipment
- Using tools
- Hand tools
- Hand saws
- Machinery
- Stages in each stroke of an engine
- Drones
- Robotics
- Review what you have been learning
LESSON 4 IRRIGATION
- Water supply
- Water quality
- Water treatment
- Recycling water
- Irrigation systems
- Pumps
- Scheduling irrigation
- Maintenance of watering systems
- Review what you have been learning
LESSON 5 GLASSHOUSES, SHADE HOUSES AND OTHER NURSERY STRUCTURES
- Greenhouses
- Other structures for growing plants
- Environmental control in greenhouses
- Sheds and workrooms
- Review what you have been learning
LESSON 6 MANAGEMENT
- Operational flow charts
- Human resource management
- Examples of nursery job descriptions and advertisements
- Work scheduling
- Motivating employees
- Training staff
- Horticultural education
- Styles of supervision
- Safety and illness at work
- Managing facilities
- Productivity
- Managing money
- Practical exercise
- Cash flow
- Financial statements
- Record keeping
- Computers in the nursery
- Business planning
- Review what you have been learning
CHAPTER 7 MARKETING
- Marketing nurseries
- The marketing mix
- Choosing a plant variety to sell
- Product case study: marketing cut flowers
- Promotions and advertising
- Packaging
- Transport and distribution
- Sales
- After sales service
- Market research
- Marketing budget
- Legal implications of marketing
- Glossary
- Metric/imperial conversion table
- Review what you have been learning
- Final assessment
How does this course work?
You can enrol at any time.
Once you have paid for the course, you will be able to start straight away.
Study when and where you like. Work through at your own pace.
You can download your study-guide to your smart phone, tablet or laptop to read offline.
There are automated self-assessment tests you can complete at the end
of each lesson. You can attempt these as many times as you wish and
each time, upon completion, you can see your results. You will need
internet access to complete the self assessment tests.
At the end of the course, you are presented with a large assessment
which can be attempted online, anywhere, anytime. If you achieve a 60%
pass in the exam; you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of
completion with your name on it.
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