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As you can imagine, there is a lot of handholding,


as many of them do not have any prior experience at all. It can be a challenge; there are no two ways about it


children have joined us see the benefi ts of a career in greenkeeping, working outdoors, promoting health and wellbeing, meeting people and all the new skills they learn.” A big part of being a greenkeeper is the hours of work, getting up early in the morning and working most weekends. I was interested to know how Michael approaches that subject with potential students. “That is an excellent question … During open evenings or interviews, I will ask the youngster if they ever had a paper round and the parents will usually question why I asked that. I advise that greenkeepers generally get up early in a morning and, if the child had a paper round, they are less likely to have an issue. Where it goes wrong is if you do not tell them this and they come to us at college. It can become a problem if you’re not open about the hours when they


have to undertake work experience, with 5:30am starts.”


I now turn my attention to Course Manager Greg, who fell into the industry by chance in 2001 (at the age of twenty years old), after deciding he needed a change of career from working in a call centre. He applied for various educational courses at local colleges and Elmwood was the fi rst to off er him a place on their National Certifi cate Course in Greenkeeping. “Whilst on the course, it opened my eyes to the realisation that greenkeeping is more than just cutting grass sat on a lawnmower. I did my fi rst season’s work here and then went back and did my HNC. In my second season, we started to remodel the course; this gave me my fi rst taste of construction work at that point. After completing my HNC there were no full-time posts available, so I


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