The Certificate I Agriculture (AHC10222) course focuses on the basic skill sets for students to be able to gain employability skills necessary to participate in the agricultural industry in the areas of garden, landscaping and nursery work. There are no entry requirements for this qualification.
This course runs over 2 years (can be run over 1 year with additional time allocation) and the 6 units of competency that make up this course are clustered across 2 assessment books that students are required to complete that focus on different practical projects within the nursery, landscaping and garden.
Within these assessment books students are required to participate in a variety of theory and practical activities to gain competency in each unit including oral questioning, role plays, a site planning project and observations.
Students are required to participate in a variety of projects specific to individual school contexts across the gardening, nursery and landscaping fields. Students within the course have the opportunity to learn various basic agricultural skills including:
- potting up plants
- propagation and soil mixing
- general garden maintenance
- planting
- pruning
- weeding and mowing (some sites)
- designing and constructing a landscaping project.
Units of competency
- AHCLSC102—Support landscape work
- AHCNSY102—Support nursery work
- AHCPGD102—Support garden work
- AHCWHS102—Work safely
- AHCWRK102—Maintain the workplace
- TLIB0012 — Use hand tools
RTO No. : 41021