Pre-Internship
Alongside my mentors Kate Ostrander and Keith, I will be logging plant identifications and locations onto a computer database as well as working on plant propagation throughout the park. Minor internship duties include green house work, plant shade room upkeep, plant delivery and plant inventory. My days will be balanced between in-office horticulture work as well was in field landscaping/irrigation.
Horticulturists apply their knowledge, skills, and technologies used to grow intensively produced plants for human food and non-food uses and for personal or social needs. Their work involves plant propagation and cultivation with the aim of improving plant growth, yields, quality, nutritional value, and resistance to insects, diseases, and environmental stresses.So I am excited to take the skills I learn in the four weeks that I'll be interning and applying them to my own life and projects.
As one would be, I am nervous to step into a completely different working environment than that of one that I am accustomed to. I hope to possibly see some familiar faces while I am at the park, I think that in itself would bring down my nerves, but either way I am very excited to start my internship and learn as much as I can in those four weeks.