The document provides an overview of a lesson on understanding the horticulture industry. It begins with objectives about describing the popularity and importance of horticulture. It then defines horticulture as the cultivation of plants and discusses why the industry is important for food production. The document also outlines various career areas in horticulture like nursery production, landscaping, and floriculture. It emphasizes that safety is critical in horticulture due to risks from machinery, chemicals, and other hazards, and explains the use of personal protective equipment to prevent injuries.

1. Understanding The
Horticulture Industry
PLSC

2. Unit Essential Question
 Why is the Horticulture industry so
important?

3. Daily Essential Question
 Why is the horticulture industry
popular?

4. Warm-Up
 Each table has a grocery store
advertisement.
 Make a list of fruit and vegetables
that you see in the advertisement

5. 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.

6. 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

7. Why Horticulture?

8. Why Horticulture?
 Food!
 Berries
 Corn
 Nuts
 Vegetables
 Landscape
 Trees
 Shrubs

9. 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

10. How did it get here?
 All crops were “moved” by humans
 Majority of crops started in the
CENTERS OF ORIGIN area around the
world

11. What happened next?
 Communities increased
 Required more FOOD
 Larger crops needed!
 Industrial Age
 Machinery, large scale crop production

12. 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?

13. So what’s the Big deal?
 Advantages in horticulture
 Increase in food
 Increase in Jobs
 Increase in aesthetic pleasure

14. How far can you go in
horticulture?
 Possible Degrees
 Associate’s
 Bachelor’s
 Master’s
 Doctoral

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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 world’s top
producers of fruits and nuts

18. Class Activities
 Side 1 of your worksheet will be
completed individually
 Side 2 of your worksheet can be
worked on as a group.

19. 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

20. @ 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

21. Horticulture Industry
Impact

22. Essential Question
 How is horticulture beneficial to the
environment?

23. Warm- Up
 Define the term
 Environment
 Describe your surrounding environment

24. 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.

25. 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

26. Environment Continued
 Horticulture can control and effect
the:
 Macroenvironment - is the large
atmosphere around a plant
 Microenvironment- is the area
immediately surrounding a plant.

27. Public Demand
 How do your produce high quality at
low cost?
 Intensive land use
 IPM practices
 Biotech and Genetic Engineering

28. Horticultural Benefits
 Recreational setting
 Golf courses
 Biological
 Prevent erosion, slow water runoff,
absorb pollutants, control dust
 Landscaping
 Improves $ value of housing

29. 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

30. The Hydrologic Cycle

31. 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

32. The Nitrogen Cycle

33. 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 !

34. 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

35. 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

36. Class Activities
 Work Independently on side 1 of your
worksheet.
 Side 2 of your worksheet is due
Friday.
 CITE YOUR SOURCES

37. Review Quiz!
 You can use your notes.
 NOT YOUR NEIGHBOR

38. 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?

39. Concept Map!
Vocab:
Olericulture,
Pomology,
Eutrophication,
Abiotic, Biotic,
Pollution, Non
Point, Point Source

40. Horticulture Careers

41. Essential Question
 What are skills you should possess to
be successful in a horticulture career?

42. 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?

43. 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.

44. 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?

45. What is a career?
 Definition: is the direction a person’s
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.

46. What does it take to be
successful?
 Productive
 Personal Skills
 person’s abilities to relate to others
productively.
 Requires
 Setting and achieving goals
 Career goal: level of accomplishment a
person wants to attain in a career.

47. 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

48. Horticulture CDEs in FFA
 Forestry
 Nursery and Landscape
 Floriculture
 Agronomy
 Job interview

49. 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.

50. 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.

51. 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.

52. 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.

53. 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.

54. Pomology and Olericulture
 Production
 Marketing
 Jobs include: manager, field technician,
sales agent and broker.

55. Turf Grass Management
 Sod Production
 Turfgrass establishment
 Golf course design and maintenance

56. Other Possible Careers
 Horticulture therapist, cooperative
extension agent, horticultural
specialist, consultant, teacher,
research scientist, and plant inspector.

57. Class Activity
 What career is right for you?
 http://www.ffa.org/index.cfm?method
=c_job.CareerSearch

58. Review Quiz!
 You may use your notes
 NOT YOUR NEIGHBOR!

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

60. Safety in Horticulture

61. Essential Question
 What is personal protective
equipment?

62. Warm-Up
 What type of safety equipment does a
football player wear?
 What type of safety equipment does a
scientist wear?

63. 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.

64. 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?

65. 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

66. Areas of Concerns in
Horticulture
 Pest Control
 Safety with machinery
 Safety with tractors and large
equipment
 What could prevent accidents ?

67. PPE
Personal Protective
Equipment
 Worn to help protect people from
injury

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

69. 2. Ears
 Protects ears
 Especially around loud
machinery !

70. 3. Lungs
 To protect
lungs and
respiratory
pathways
 When would
you use
respiration
equipment in
horticulture?

71. 4. Skin and Body
 Worn to protect skin, body, and
clothes
 When would we use skin and body PPE?

72. Symbols to Know!

73. 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

74. 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

76. All you need to know, is
on the label!

77. Review Quiz!
 You may use your notes
 NOT YOUR NEIGHBOR!

78. Closing
 Word Wall
 PPE
 Exit Question
 How will you protect yourself in the
classroom when using horticulture
products?

79. Review

80. Concepts
 Horticulture is important to health and
the economy
 Horticulture careers require
knowledge of science and buisness
 Safety is everyone’s concern