Our Six Principles

These are the six principles identified for building a sustainable world class workforce.

1) Adopt Good HR practices.

2) Aim to keep the core team employed throughout the year.

3) Find innovative ways of managing peaks in demand.

4) Be imaginative in finding new blood for the industry.

5) Take responsibility for developing our own training.

6) Promote the industry as a good place to work to educators, career advisers and the public.

Growing Jobs videos on You-Tube

One of the great things about social media is that the tools that we have at our disposal for getting our message across get more powerful all the time.

YouTube has recently revamped their channel facilities which not only make it easier for users to find the content that’s been created but also allows us [...]

Growing together implementation plan from West Sussex Growers.

West Sussex growers have recently released an update to their strategic plan for developing horticulture in their area. There are three key priorities that have been identified.

Strategic Priority 1

Ensure that planning and land use policies support the sector and identify suitable locations for development.

Strategic Priority 2:

Improve understanding of the sector with [...]

The full report, case studies and evidence base is now available as a paperback.

This book came from a project carried out for SEEDA to develop some general principles about how to build a world class workforce for the horticultural industry. I talked to about 30 growers and unearthed some interesting case studies about innovative ways that real companies had used to develop their workforces.

Horticulture is a highly [...]

Growing Jobs now out in Paperback!

Thanks to the wonders of social media marketing and a great new site called Completely Novel you can now buy the Growing Jobs report and the case studies as a paperback – 57 pages for £5.99 [...]