Throughout February and March 2025, as a key part of the Arborversity Horticulture Training Program, The Morton Arboretum hosted a series of virtual curriculum workshops to convene over 100 unique participants from organizations in 25 states to discuss the horticulture training needs of public gardens and arboreta across the country.
The goals of the curriculum workshops were to understand how different organizations currently address each of the workshop topics and to begin outlining specific learning objectives that would make each topic useful and relevant to their staff.
Now that the workshops have concluded, the project team is working to synthesize the findings and draft the curriculum framework, including specific learning objectives and levels for each topic. The final version of the curriculum framework will be circulated for feedback, made available on the Arborversity platform, and shared among the APGA and ArbNet membership.
Questions? Feel free to reach out to arborversity@mortonarb.org.
Workshop topics included:
- Planting techniques
- Plant selection
- Plant identification
- Basic plant care and maintenance
- Living collections documentation/databases
- Weed control
- Soils
- Landscape design
- General safety
- Effective communication
- Managing/Supervising people