Landscape/Plant Production

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When it comes time to select your career path, it’s important to focus on something that you truly love.

Whether you focus on landscaping or plant production, our associate degree program will satisfy your passion for nature. Working at our Earth Science Center, you’ll learn how to design, install, and maintain landscapes or produce high-yield commercial crops.

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Landscape/Plant Production Technology (A.A.S.)

Working hands-on in our expansive arboretum and greenhouse spaces, you’ll cultivate a host of in-demand skills. Through electives you can focus on general landscape operations, landscape construction & arboriculture, or plant production & tools, and techniques of production for ornamental, edible, and medicinal crops.

 

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Bachelor Degree Pathway

Rise to administrative and management positions in your field with an Applied Management (B.S.) Online degree

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Pair a minor with any bachelor's degree, or an immersion with any bachelor's or associate's degree.

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Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Gardeners workshop set at college March 15

“Bringing Nature Back: One Yard at a Time!” is the title of a day-long workshop set for Saturday, March 15, in Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Klump Academic Center Auditorium. Featuring talks by two Penn College employees, the event is presented by Penn State Extension Master Gardeners of Lycoming County in partnership with the Responsible Decarbonization Alliance.

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Penn College students pass pesticide certification exams

Fourteen Pennsylvania College of Technology students have passed various sections of the Pennsylvania Pesticide Applicator Certification exam. The students are enrolled in Penn College’s landscape/plant production and forest technology majors. “Students with this certification are what many employers are looking for,” said Carl J. Bower Jr., assistant professor of horticulture.

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Thursday, January 16, 2025

Landscape students attend trade show in Baltimore

A group of Penn College landscape/plant production technology students took in the Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show, held last week at the Baltimore Convention Center. Considered a key resource for anyone seeking a competitive edge in the green industry, MANTS is a hub for networking, professional development and discovering the newest horticulture products and trends.

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