Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Maggi Young on February 13, 2014, 05:09:29 PM
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The Grow careers initiative is to hold a careers afternoon at Scotland's Rural College, SRUC Research, on Wednesday 19th February.
An afternoon of short presentations and seminars by a range of horticulturists, covering a
broad variety of careers areas, experience and advice. Aimed at anybody who is interested in a
career, or further developing their career in horticulture.
Speakers include Thomas Angel of Thomas Angel Gardens, Barry Farquar from Farplants and Matthew Cooper from SAC Consulting arboricultural consultancy.
The event will take place from 1pm - 5pm at SRUC (Scotland’s Rural College), King’s Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JG.
Full details : http://offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk/NewsAttachments/WOH/GROW_careers_programme.pdf (http://offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk/NewsAttachments/WOH/GROW_careers_programme.pdf)
http://www.growcareers.info/ (http://www.growcareers.info/) - with reports from John Foley of Holden Clough- former Young Horticulturalist of the Year, who has been assisted in the past by an SRGC/Diana Aitchison Grant
http://www.srgc.net/site/index.php/extensions/grants (http://www.srgc.net/site/index.php/extensions/grants) and Tom Micthell of Evolution Plants, among others.
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James Wong gave a brilliant lecture on this subject to students and interested people last week at Pershore College. I understand it was one of a series through out the country. If you have the chance do go to hear him. even if like me you are long past contemplating a career in hortiulture.
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I watched a live online streaming of one of James Wong's talks on this from Cork the other week- I think it may still be available - I think I may have posted a link ..... if I can remember where I did that, I'll repeat it!
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Found link but it is no longer available, I'm afraid. There is this podcast made by JW when in Ireland though - here (http://www.sodshow.com/2014/01/30/the-sodshow-meets-james-wong/)
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James Wong is one of those speaking at the YoungHort conference at Wisley on March 7th http://younghortcontact.wix.com/younghort (http://younghortcontact.wix.com/younghort)
This event is fully booked but details are :
YoungHort Conference 2014.
"The first annual YoungHort Conference will take place at the Hillside Events Centre at RHS Wisley on Friday 7th March 2014.
The day will include access to the gardens, a buffet style lunch, inspirational talks from some of horticultures biggest names including James Wong, Paul Hervey-Brookes, Michael Perry & others as well as networking opportunties with other horticultural organisations!
The day will then conclude with an ideas session on how to Improve the image of hortculture amoungst young people."
And yes, I have contacted Young Hort Team to tell them about SRGC Grants!