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Provide your entire team with flexible, practical green industry training to enhance skills and foster growth—all year long.
Discover Expert-Led Learning Experiences
Workforce development is available for your team—in both English and Spanish—no matter the skill level.
Explore top industry practices through expert-led and designed micro credentials, certification courses, webinars, recorded webinars, in-person workshops, industry production tours, and a range of education programs.
Take advantage of the AmericanHort educational programs designed to give you and your employees tools for success.
Upcoming Learning Opportunities
Member Orientation: Live Meeting
A Biological Plot Twist: Can an Adventive Parasitoid Protect Boxwood?
Next Season Starts Now: An All Industry AmericanHort Roundtable
Join AmericanHort for a new, highly interactive member roundtable that brings together leaders from across the horticulture industry, including greenhouse growers, nursery producers, retailers, landscapers, and other key segments for a candid conversation about the decisions being made right now.
Timing is Money: Crop Scheduling for Quality and Profit
Join industry and grower experts for a real-world conversation on how to plan smarter from stick date to ship date, avoid common timing mistakes, and understand the hidden costs of crops that are early, late, or inconsistent.
Mentorship Programs for the Next Generation
This webinar will explore how leadership can be developed within the horticulture industry through mentorship programs. Learn about support networks, professional development, and how to design your business to create more opportunities for the next generation of horticulture professionals.
Smart LED Lighting to Grow Profitability
Participants will learn how growers are using modern LED systems to improve plant quality, increase uniformity, and reduce energy costs, while achieving faster crop cycles.
Trees (and Shrubs) for Bees
This talk covers why bees are critical for biodiversity and food security, why bee populations are declining, and how the gardening public can help by incorporating woody landscape plants to provide nectar, pollen, nesting sites and materials, and other resources.
Flexible Learning Options
Advance your team with flexible, on-demand educational offerings for all industry segments and skill levels.
Certification Courses
Enhance existing skill sets or develop new ones with expert-led learning modules. Click here for more details.
HortCred
Gain practical skills and earn digital badges through topic-focused training for all experience levels. Click here for more details.
Mastery Series
Virtual, multi-part courses that increase knowledge and build mastery of skills and practices. Click here for more details.
Spanish Translated Education
Provides fundamental horticulture skills training online.
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Building Connections and Enhancing Skills
From emerging talent to seasoned industry professionals, programs and networking opportunities connect you with the people you need to know.
Grow Forward
Designed for emerging professionals to provide practical insights, strategies, and actionable tips for the workplace.
HR Peer Sharing Group
A place to share ideas, discuss best practices, network, and connect with other Human Resource managers.
Roundtable
AmericanHort members connect by industry segment to share experiences, address challenges, and stay informed.
Women in Horticulture
Interviews with accomplished women provide inspiration, learning and connection with peers.
HRI Leadership Academy
This program guides selected participants through a concentrated curriculum designed to enhance leadership skills.
HRI tHRIve
This web-based series features key research findings that are HRI and federally funded.
The AmericanHort Knowledge Center
From emerging talent to seasoned industry professionals, programs and networking opportunities connect you with the people you need to know.
Log in to access educational courses, programming, and other content including articles, on-demand videos and much more.
If you are not yet a member but are interested in obtaining access to resources, join AmericanHort today.
“The Hort Knowledge Center is a great online tool to share with my staff. It helps me train them in a budget friendly way.”
– Liz Lark-Riley, Mahoney’s Garden Center, MA