Urban Arboriculture Tree Care

Career Opportunities

There are more than three-million trees lining Toronto’s streets and in public parks and ravines and millions more grow on private property. Help maintain a healthy, sustainable urban forest ecosystem working for municipalities, provincial and federal governments and public utilities. Tree care contractors and other private sector employers are also looking well-trained tree workers. Demand is strong for tree climbers in particular.

Advantages of a career in horticulture and landscaping include:

• Variety: as you can see from the list above there are many career opportunities in the horticultural field. Many landscape companies are small businesses where individuals assume or combine many of the roles/duties outlined above making each day interesting and diverse.
• Great work environment: you will be often working outdoors in settings that are healthy, beautiful and generally non-stressful.
• Self-employment: this is an industry where there are great opportunities to be your own boss and start a small business. Small companies are often very successful because of their ability to offer personal service, control product/job quality and maximize referrals by satisfied customers.
• Job satisfaction: in an increasingly high-tech world this is a profession where you can gain great personal satisfaction from your day’s work: whether it is from transforming a neglected garden into a healthy beautiful one due to your horticultural skills, or from creating a dramatic waterfall using your skills and knowledge in construction.
• Lasting legacy: this is a profession/industry which makes a lasting contribution to the quality of the environment by turning mundane sites into beautiful and functional gardens/landscapes, or transforming a bleak site or wasteland into a productive and aesthetically pleasing landscape. There is great satisfaction in leaving such a legacy