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Horticulture

Why study horticulture? 

Horticulture demand is reaching stellar proportion, as U.S. consumers invested nearly $9 billion in horticultural goods and services in 2002. Growth in this industry is projected to maintain its solid increase of 15 percent annually for the next decade. 

The diversity of the horticulture industry creates a multitude of career choices, such as:

• Landscape Design, Installation, and/or Maintenance
• Commercial Greenhouse Production, or Sales
• Garden Center Management, or Retail Sales
• Nursery Production, or Sales
• Fruit & Vegetable Production, and/or Sales.
• Turfgrass Production, Installation, and/or Maintenance
• Pest Management

Program requirements

Horticulture program requirements.

Contact

If you are interested in a career with endless opportunities please contact:
Mark Albright
Horticulture Program Coordinator 
Potter-Ewing Building, Room 408
(660) 530-5800 ext. 7310
malbright@sfccmo.edu