CFGM

Gardening Technician

These post-compulsory studies train you to install, conserve, and restore outdoor and indoor gardens, as well as meadows for sports use, and carry out plant production and floristry activities, operating and maintaining machinery and facilities, complying with environmental regulations, quality control, and occupational risk prevention.

The duration is 2,000 hours, distributed over two academic years (1,485 hours in an educational center and 515 hours (company stay) in a work center).

This study replaces the Gardening cycle (LOGSE).

Education: Vocational training
Level: Intermediate degree
Certification: Technician
System: LOE
Professional family: Agricultural
Environment: Agricultural and maritime-fisheries
Code: CFPM AR50

Hours in company training

Courses

Graduates since 2014

Entrance requirements

Holding the Compulsory Secondary Education graduate qualification, being qualified as a technician or auxiliary technician, passing the specific course for access to intermediate level training cycles (CAM), passing the second year of the unified and polyvalent baccalaureate (BUP), having other equivalent studies for academic purposes, passing the compulsory modules of an initial professional qualification programme (PQPI) or the university entrance examination for the over 25s, holding a qualification for access to a higher level training cycle.

Those who do not meet any of these requirements must pass an entrance examination. You must be at least 17 years old in the year in which the test is taken, to be able to do it.

Subjects

Agronomic fundamentals - Workshop and traction equipment - Agricultural infrastructure and installations - Plant health principles - Phytosanitary control - Garden and green area implementation - Maintenance and improvement of gardens and green areas - Plant production and soils in nurseries - Floral compositions - Floristry establishments - Sales techniques in gardening and floristry - Professional English - Digitalization applied to production sectors - Sustainability applied to the production system - Personal employability pathway I - Personal employability pathway II - Intermodular project - Optional professional module.

Academic outlets

With these studies, the title of technician is obtained, which allows access to high school and a higher vocational education cycle.

Professional outlets

Completion of this training cycle allows access to the workforce as: Worker in orchards, nurseries, and gardens - Gardener, in general - Gardener and caretaker of sports fields - Worker in urban parks and historical and/or botanical gardens - Qualified worker in garden and green area installation - Qualified worker in maintenance and improvement of gardens and green areas - Qualified worker in a gardening company for self-employment – Planter – Worker in nurseries, in general - Qualified worker in plant propagation in nurseries - Qualified worker in plant cultivation in nurseries - Specialist worker in seed and fruit collection at height - Qualified worker in seed production - Grafting worker – Qualified worker in nurseries - Florist for self-employment or employed - Floristry officer - Floristry salesperson.