HortWeek and Colegrave Seabrook Foundation launch careers podcast series

The eight podcast series is designed to inspire people into horticulture careers.

Tim Kerley and Neville Stein
Tim Kerley and Neville Stein

HortWeek is delighted to present the Cultivate Your Future podcast, in partnership with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation.

At a time when horticulture needs to encourage a new wave of young people to come into the industry, this podcast is designed to highlight the multiple and varied career opportunities available.

We hear from people who have found their way into their chosen career through different paths, what their job involves and what it means to them.

Every two weeks, for the next two months, we will be releasing two episodes covering a particular job area.

This week we focus on plant breeding and horticulture consultant Neville Stein interviews Tim Kerley, plant breeder at Kerley & Co.

Hear about what the world of plant breeding offers, what the opportunities are and the skillset required. In a world that is facing significant climate change challenges, the need for plants that can adapt to heat, drought and other abiotic stresses has never been more important, and the work of plant
breeders is in high demand.

He also interviews plant breeder Simon Crawford.

Stein interviews plant breeders, head gardeners, plantarea managers and more in the series.

Plant and garden centre sales with Steve Barrow of British Garden Centres, and Liam Beddall who is senior rose consultant at David Austin Roses.
Horticulture education with Sarah Hale, horticultural courses officer at the RHS and Lucy Lewis, horticultural lecturer at Sparsholt College.
Botanic gardens management with Raoul Curtis-Machin, director of horticulture at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, and Scott Smith, head gardener at Beechgrove Garden in Aberdeen (and also a presenter on BBC Scotland).

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