Lawn care training takes two major forms. On the one hand, we have formal training, and on the other hand, we have informal training. We will be looking at each of these in turn, with a view to understand what each entails. But before doing all that, we need to first of all answer the more basic question -- as to who actually requires the lawn care training. And that is where we come to learn that lawn maintenance training is required by people who have it as a goal to venture into the business of maintaining lawns.
Necessity for lawn care training
Lawn care training is necessitated by the fact that lawn maintenance is a challenging undertaking, from a technical point of view. If a person is to take care of others' lawns (for payment), it becomes necessary for him or her to have some training in the field. This is especially the case keeping in mind the fact that the expectations of the people who retain professionals to do landscaping for them tend to be very high. In other words, the people who pay others to take care of their lawns tend to expect the lawns to be very well taken care of and who use only the very best petrol lawn mowers.
It therefore becomes necessary for the people who opt to venture into the landscaping business to obtain training, if they are to meet such expectations. They have to bring themselves - through training and practice - to a point where they can take care of their clients' lawns better than the clients would have been able to do (on a DIY basis). That is the only way they can justify the receipt of the payments they get for provision of €professional' lawn maintenance services.
Having thus answered the question as to why lawn care training becomes necessary, we need to proceed and examine the two forms of lawn maintenance training.
Formal lawn maintenance training
This is lawn care training offered in institutions, following a standard curriculum, with examinations (and other forms of evaluation) and with certification issued at the end of the courses. To be sure, there are very few educational or vocational institutions with courses in this area. What we tend to have is a wider course in landscaping, with lawn care being one of the units covered. It is also worth noting that this is a field of learning where one can advance to a very high level. We often come across folks with up to Masters Degrees in Ornamental horticulture (which is another name for landscaping, in which lawn care is the key component).
Informal lawn maintenance training
This is normally offered within the context of €on the job training' by the various lawn service firms. There is no standard curriculum followed here. Neither are there examinations (though evaluation is done informally, by way of observation of how well the trainees are able to perform various practical lawn care tasks). In most cases, there are no certifications issued. Still, given its practical hands-on nature, this form of training is very powerful. Worth noting is the fact that most of the €rank and file' staff in lawn care firms at the moment are beneficiaries of this sort of informal training.
Necessity for lawn care training
Lawn care training is necessitated by the fact that lawn maintenance is a challenging undertaking, from a technical point of view. If a person is to take care of others' lawns (for payment), it becomes necessary for him or her to have some training in the field. This is especially the case keeping in mind the fact that the expectations of the people who retain professionals to do landscaping for them tend to be very high. In other words, the people who pay others to take care of their lawns tend to expect the lawns to be very well taken care of and who use only the very best petrol lawn mowers.
It therefore becomes necessary for the people who opt to venture into the landscaping business to obtain training, if they are to meet such expectations. They have to bring themselves - through training and practice - to a point where they can take care of their clients' lawns better than the clients would have been able to do (on a DIY basis). That is the only way they can justify the receipt of the payments they get for provision of €professional' lawn maintenance services.
Having thus answered the question as to why lawn care training becomes necessary, we need to proceed and examine the two forms of lawn maintenance training.
Formal lawn maintenance training
This is lawn care training offered in institutions, following a standard curriculum, with examinations (and other forms of evaluation) and with certification issued at the end of the courses. To be sure, there are very few educational or vocational institutions with courses in this area. What we tend to have is a wider course in landscaping, with lawn care being one of the units covered. It is also worth noting that this is a field of learning where one can advance to a very high level. We often come across folks with up to Masters Degrees in Ornamental horticulture (which is another name for landscaping, in which lawn care is the key component).
Informal lawn maintenance training
This is normally offered within the context of €on the job training' by the various lawn service firms. There is no standard curriculum followed here. Neither are there examinations (though evaluation is done informally, by way of observation of how well the trainees are able to perform various practical lawn care tasks). In most cases, there are no certifications issued. Still, given its practical hands-on nature, this form of training is very powerful. Worth noting is the fact that most of the €rank and file' staff in lawn care firms at the moment are beneficiaries of this sort of informal training.