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Plant and nature lovers will enjoy an active outdoor career as a graduate of a TAFE NSW horticulture course. You’ll learn how to keep soil and plants healthy and all the tricks to protect them from weeds and disease. Advance your horticulture career with specialist courses in arboriculture, sports turf management or landscape design or move into project planning and management.
Climb trees for a living when you become a qualified arborist. Graduate armed with the knowledge of how to safely assess, prune and scale trees to ensure their strength, safety and longevity.
Gain the skills needed for entry-level work in the industry and practise high-risk arboriculture activities under supervision. Learn about the care and maintenance of trees and begin on your path to become a qualified arborist after further study.
Raise your skills as an arborist to new heights when you learn to work on a boom lift. Gain the confidence to operate chipping machines and shape urban landscapes by identifying hazards. Highlight the world’s natural beauty and restore balance to plants, both on the ground and at heights.
Gain the skills you need to become a qualified arborist. Join an ever-growing and exciting industry where you can work outside at different natural sites everyday, and with further study move into landscaping, horticulture, nursery work and more.
Take your career to new heights as you learn to cultivate, maintain and protect the environment around you. Learn everything you need to know about being an arborist from the ground up, while promoting environmental sustainability.
Access new heights when learning how to safely cut and trim trees while climbing. Shape urban landscapes by identifying hazards, highlighting natural beauty and restoring balance to plants, both on the ground and at heights. Gain the confidence to operate chipping machines and maintain equipment.
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Take your career to new heights as you learn to cultivate, maintain and protect trees and treescapes. Learn everything you need to know about being an arborist from the ground up while promoting environmental sustainability.
Take your love of trees and the outdoors and turn it into a career as you prepare to become a professional arborist. Work in nature and the built world to create beautiful treescapes and use your advanced skills to work as a consultant, supervisor or manager in this growing industry.
Learn the tricks of the horticulture trade to build lush outdoor spaces and keep gardens green. Get to know a philodendron from a pelargonium as you brush up on plant identification.
Gain the essential skills to begin your career as a horticulture assistant. Get your hands dirty as you expand your plant knowledge, learn how to create and maintain beautiful gardens, assist in soil sampling and nurture plants back to health.
Grow your career as a sought-after horticulturalist in an evolving industry. Learn how to create and nurture different types of green environments that are both beautiful and functional, and be industry ready for a fulfilling career as a horticulturist, landscaper or gardener.
Cultivate life and embark on a rewarding career making the world greener as a horticulturalist. Gain high-level skills across a broad range of in-demand specialisations, such as parks and gardens, plant nutrition and pest management.
Create dream gardens in homes, businesses and public green spaces. Get your hands dirty with construction and planting or be the designer with the grand landscaped vision.
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Take up the challenge and find innovative ways to contribute to greater biodiversity and climate change resilience, liveable cities, and better resource management. Refine your practical skills and creative vision as you execute designs, meet client needs and enhance environmental amenities.
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Learn from horticulture experts as you prioritise plant and soil nutrition, weed suppression and pest control. Use your know-how to keep our parks and gardens beautiful.
Grow your plant-based career in the edible sector with a course in production horticulture. Master the art of cultivating nutritious vegetables, fruit, mushrooms and more.
Grow your career as a horticultural and floricultural cropping assistant. Spend your days managing crops from establishment through to harvest. Use your industry-relevant skills and techniques to gain the best yield from your crops.
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Propagate and irrigate your way to a flourishing career in production nurseries. Establish healthy seedlings in traditional and hydroponic systems for sale in garden centres.
Launch your career in this blooming industry if you love growing plants and enjoy working with people. Learn to propagate trees and shrubs, help plants thrive, and interact with customers and your team of retail nursery workers.
Gain the essential skills to produce healthy indoor and outdoor plants on a large scale for nurseries, or put your knowledge to use in local parks or gardens. Graduate ready to enjoy a fulfilling career working outdoors in a team.
Nurture your career with the latest nursery techniques in growing and propagation, and keep our world supplied with greenery and food crops. You’ll learn how to keep plants healthy and productive, preparing you for an active career in the nursery industry.
Whether you see yourself smoothing the lawn at your local bowling club, or being in charge of the SCG cricket pitch, a course in sports turf management will get you on the green.
Make the grass always greener on both sides of the field as a greenkeeper for iconic sporting venues. Gain the skills to construct, maintain, prepare and restore sports turf surfaces while working outdoors, supporting the sports community.
Equip yourself with the specialised skills you need to keep sporting greens and tracks in pristine condition. Learn from industry experts, develop your knowledge in state-of-the-art training facilities and cultivate a rewarding niche career in sports turf management.
Turn your dreams into reality and launch a career working at iconic venues like the Sydney Cricket Ground or Sydney Olympic Park. You’ll be prepared for roles in major venues with the in-demand skills and knowledge needed to manage sporting facilities or fields.