Horticultural Therapy uses horticultural activities and training as therapeutic and vocational tools to help the elderly, handicapped, or institutionalized individuals. Representatives of horticultural supply companies also provide training services to growers along with product sales. Teaching opportunities exist at arboreta and public gardens, and with advanced training, in community colleges, universities, the Cooperative Extension Service, and overseas assistance agencies. Horticulturists with college degrees become technicians and researchers with businesses, institutions, and governmental agencies involved in plant and product development. Opportunities also exist with regulatory agencies protecting the quantity and quality of horticultural products.
Students can learn only so much in a classroom and from a textbook.
That is why some of our classrooms don't have blackboards or even desks. When you are training at Trinity Valley, you are in the greenhouse, on a landscaping site or on a special intern assignment during much of your college career. But your horticulture training doesn't stop there. Students also receive intensive course work and studio instruction. Curricula includes everything from nursery and greenhouse management as well as landscape design and computer-aided horticultural training.