Horticulture As A Career

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Horticulture is an industry full of opportunity. Many of the people working at Bailey Nurseries, for instance, started their careers simply from their love of plants. A job in Horticulture does not require a degree. Ryan McEnaney of Bailey Nurseries is a testament to this statement.Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3TOYuTpBotanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3xh4rj7Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3TOYEKvEG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3TRc3SgLearn More:13 Low Maintenance Hydrangeas that Thrive on NeglectConnect With Ryan McEnaney:Ryan McEnaney is a fifth-generation family member leading marketing at Bailey Nurseries, as well as a garden designer and author. He is passionate about connecting people to nature and encouraging home gardeners to enjoy digging in the dirt. He travels the country educating homeowners on how to be successful in their growing ventures. His approach revolves around making gardening fun, breaking down barriers, and welcoming collaboration. Ryan’s first book, “Field Guide to Outside Style” helps home gardeners discover their own style for designing their outdoor space. Instagram Bailey Nurseries Instagram Bailey Nurseries Website Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order.Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello my friends we are talking about horticulture as a career today and speaking of
0:18.8	we have Brian McInaney on the show who I just saw three or four days ago at the Northwest
0:24.0	Flower and Garden Show so clearly someone with a career in horticulture a fifth
0:29.4	generation family member of leading marketing at Nurseries, also a garden designer, also an
0:36.1	author and a spokesperson for Bailey's brands.
0:39.9	So clearly you have not only one, like seven careers in horticulture Ryan.
0:45.0	So why don't we start off with a bit of an introduction.
0:47.0	Something I found interesting at the show we were just at is how many people came up to me, Jacques, I now am working in horticulture because of watching
0:56.1	your guy's stuff.
0:57.1	And so if someone's interested in that, maybe we could just go into your background
0:59.9	and how you got into this.
1:01.5	Yeah, so I grew up around plants. I grew up working in in
1:08.0	production in the fields then started helping out with some events around the
1:12.3	nursery.
1:13.0	I'm a fifth generation family member at Bailey
1:18.0	and so I it's like in my blood.
1:21.0	But then I got a degree in communications and started my career in a totally different
1:27.7	industry and started working in entertainment in LA and like a good Midwesterner found my way home and even at that time when I was still working with some of my
1:40.0	Entertainment clients I started working a little bit at a time at Bailey and started doing
1:45.4	this was a hundred years ago and social was sort of new for brands and so I started doing
1:49.9	some social media for our consumer brands and then it just like it felt like home
1:56.7	and especially coming from an industry like entertainment to come into a space where we are like doing really good in the world and surrounded by really great people that just care so much with so much passion in horticulture for what they do.
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