Hort. Basics
This term comes from the Latin words hortus colere, meaning “garden cultivation.”
What is horticulture?
This career is responsible for designing and creating arrangements of flowers.
Who is a florist?
This is the minimum educational level listed for many entry-level horticulture jobs.
What is a high school diploma or less?
This part of agricultural education allows students to explore and identify agricultural interests.
What is an SAE?
This type of SAE is based on exploring passions and career interests and can develop into an Immersion SAE.
What is a Foundational SAE?
This division is the science and practice of growing, harvesting, storing, processing, and marketing tree-grown fruits.
What is pomology?
This professional is responsible for the well-being of trees through planting, growing, maintaining, and removing trees.
Who is an arborist?
This type of education can prepare a person for advanced-level horticulture jobs.
What is technical education certification?
This SAE component means the student creates and designs the project based on individual interests.
What is student-led?
This Immersion SAE involves a student working in an employment setting, either paid or as a volunteer.
What is Placement/Internship?
This division focuses on growing, harvesting, storing, processing, and marketing vegetables.
What is olericulture?
This career researches seed characteristics and works to improve seeds to produce the best-quality plants.
Who is a plant breeder?
This degree is usually completed through a two-year college program.
What is an associate degree?
This SAE component means the agriculture instructor guides project design, implementation, and evaluation.
What is instructor supervised?
This type of SAE involves a student operating an individual business that provides goods or services to the marketplace.
What is Ownership/Entrepreneurship?
This is the science and practice of growing, maintaining, and processing grapes.
What is viticulture?
This person is responsible for the daily operations involved with running a greenhouse or nursery.
Who is a greenhouse manager?
This degree generally requires four years of college or university study.
What is a bachelor’s degree?
What sound does a cow make?
What is MOO?
This research SAE applies the scientific process by controlling certain variables while changing others to observe the outcome.
What is experimental?
This division involves growing, planting, and maintaining grass plants that form a ground cover.
What is turfgrass production?
This professional researches insects, including their growth, nutrition, behavior, and interactions with plants.
Who is an entomologist?
This degree generally involves additional specialization, intense research or scientific experimentation, and a dissertation.
What is a doctoral degree?
This digital platform is used to maintain SAE records, reflect on skill development, and transfer records into FFA awards and applications.
What is the Agricultural Experience Tracker (AET)?
This SAE involves students working cooperatively at school to provide goods or services using facilities and resources of the agricultural education program or school.
What is a School-based Enterprise?