PRINCIPLES OF LANDSCAPING/NURSERY MANAGEMENT

Course Description

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This program, available only at the Career and Technology Center, offers a unique combination of academic and practical experiences. Emphasis is on the environmental impacts of the landscaping industry: native plants, identification, plant production and equipment operation, and marketing.

Students will develop skills needed for employment or advanced education in the landscape industry, including turf care, landscaping maintenance, landscape design with emphasis upon proper techniques for pavers and construction of retaining walls and patios. Students will learn about park management through course work, laboratories, and supervised agricultural experiences. Students who qualify may participate in the Apprenticeship Program during the spring semester of their senior year.

Successful completion of the Landscape Management program satisfies 8 credits toward a Park Management degree at Frederick Community College and qualifies for 5 college credits at the University of Maryland Institute of Applied Agriculture, College Park. When taken for 2 credits, this class takes up 2 of the 3 45-minute sessions offered at the Career and Technology Center (CTC). When taken for 3 credits, it uses all 3 45-minute sessions at the CTC.

Landscape/Nursery Management Skills Indicators.pdf

Opportunities offered to students in this program

All students are members of the Career and Technology Center FFA organization.

Dr. Shry has the ability to get a student at least an interview for just about any job they could want in the industry.

Dr. Shry also has college information that he will get for students looking to go to college.

Students have the chance to compete in local, regional, state and national nursery/landscape competitions.

Students are well ahead of the rest when it comes to getting a good job in the industry because they are taught so much more than even people with a college education!

Teachers Comments

Landscaping offers students a unique combination of academic and practical "hands on" opportunities. Projects and activities are related with different themes. Students enrolled in landscaping deal with more than plants. They have to think of the infrastructure needed to support beautiful displays. Paving, lighting and mother nature's sounds are vital components of a captivating scenes to explore for budding landscape designers.

This Home to the left was built by the 2002-2003 CTC students and was landscaped in the 2003-2004 school year. Hawkins landscape company also helped direct the students on what to do with the plant material.

This picture is actually a computerized layout of what the house will look like in a year or so after planting.

Every year or two CTC purchases a lot to build the house on. This year they decided to renovate a house in Frederick that is a Sears house kit. This house was actually purchased out of a Sears catalogue and then all the pieces were sent to this site.

This house has taken CTC two years just to renovate. This is because of many complications but this year it will be completed and landscaped beautifully!

Student Comments

Landscaping gives me an opportunity to experience the real world and a chance to compete with other students throughout out the US in FFA

Ryan F.

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FFA MISSION STATEMENT

To make a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier landscape skills, leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education at the Frederick County Career and Technology Center.

TIM SLANE
FORMER CTC STUDENT

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Tim's Lawn Service was started in 1994 when, at age 11, Tim began mowing his neighbors' lawns. By high school, Tim was a teenaged entrepreneur. He attended the Frederick County Career and Technology Center to study landscaping. In 1999, Tim Jr. received a chapter award in Agri-Entrepreneurship by the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership sponsored by the National Future Farmers of America (FFA) organization. The next year he was awarded the Youth Entrepreneur Award from the State of Maryland.

          
Toms and Nathan Rhoderick operate 450A aerial lift to complete their
certification examination.This certification qualifies Mike and Nathan for
aerial lift and scissor lift equipment.This certification was offered
through Rental Unlimited,Inc. Thanks Tom for adding these pics and caps!
FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their
potential for premier leadership, personal growth, and career success
through Landscaping at the Frederick County Career and Technology Center.

Click here to read art6icles about the Landscaping Program in the Frederick News Post.