Hauraki Plains College

Market Gardening - Horticulture

Course Description

Teacher in Charge: Mr Y. Kay.

Recommended Prior Learning

No prior learning is needed, but understanding of photosynthesis and other plant processes is beneficial.

Learn how to grow, care and harvest vegetables and fruit commercially as you help to establish our new market garden at Hayward Farm.

You will also have your very own garden bed in the school's horticulture area, where you will choose what to grow, experiment with cropping techniques and take home what you grow.

Most lessons will be outdoors, focusing on the development and maintenance of the horticultural area, which includes an extensive fruit orchard and a new market garden site.

Be prepared to get your hands dirty and also be prepared to be able to work in class and learn the theory behind growing.

Course Overview

Term 4
Soils exam

Learning Areas:

Primary Industries

Assessment Information

The assessments build on each other over the year. Starting with the garden gives students hands on sensory understanding for what they will learn in theory. This form of learning helps students to gain a far more ingrained understanding of what is being taught. It gives personal in site into how management practices can impact on plant growth and therefore quality and quantity of produce. This is an applied science route to learning.

Further Education in science and agriculture or horticulture, jobs within the agriculture or horticulture production sector, agriculture and horticulture scientists, agronomist, agriculture and horticulture consultant, rural banker, landscaper, arborist, ecologist, agriculture machinery, bee keeper, plant or animal genetics