Gain Advanced Certificate in Applied Management (Herbs) Online

Many will use this course to become a farm manager, work in marketing horticultural herbs or start your own business. Others will use it to enhance a career they have already started in the horticulture industry.

• Learn about management, marketing and business
• Learn about horticultural herb crop production
• Combine these skills and discover opportunities for employment and business in the cropping industry
• 900 hour, self paced practical course with options to upgrade

This Advanced Certificate develops both the skills required to manage a horticultural farm (eg. Market Garden, Orchard), and also the knowledge in the identification, growing, processing and marketing herb crops and crop related products. This course involves seven units, plus a 200 hr workplace project.

Modules

Core Modules    These modules provide foundation knowledge for the Advanced Certificate In Applied Management (Herbs).

•      Business Operations VBS006
•      Herbs (Basics Course) AHT108
•      Herb Culture BHT114
•      Management VBS105
•      Marketing Foundations VBS109
•      Office Practices VBS102

Stream Modules    Studied after the core modules, stream modules cover more specific or niche subjects.
     Outdoor Plant Production (Crops I) BHT112
     Protected Plant Production BHT223
 
Elective Modules 
In addition to the core modules, students study any 1 of the following 15 modules.

•      Culinary Herbs VHT242
•      Medicinal Herbs BHT227
•      Commercial Organic Vegetable Growing VHT241
•      Commercial Vegetable Production BHT222
•      Cut Flower Orchids VHT240
•      Cut Flower Production BHT221
•      Fruit Production - Temperate Climate BHT218
•      Fruit Production - Warm Climate BHT217
•      Nut Production BHT219
•      Viticulture BHT220
•      Weed Control BHT209
•      Berry Production BHT309
•      Bush Tucker Plants BHT328
•      Cut Flower Bulbs BHT317
•      Mushroom Production BHT310
•      Warm Climate Nuts BHT308

Note that each module in the Advanced Certificate In Applied Management (Herbs) is a short course in its own right, and may be studied separately.