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The University of Florida's Greenhouse Training Online program is offering two courses, Success with your Latino Workforce and Field Diagnosis of Plant Diseases, this fall.
This is UF's second year teaching both courses.
Success with your Latino Workforce is taught by Claudio Pasian, professor emeritus in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science at The Ohio State University, where he taught for 25 years. This course will prepare non-Latino supervisors or coworkers of Latino employees to improve communication and efficiency in the workplace with a mixed culture workforce. This year's course includes increased Spanish language training, including an AI chatbot to help translating Spanish horticulture terms. This intermediate course is only offered in English.
Field Diagnosis of Plant Diseases is taught by Carrie Harmon, director of the UF/IFAS Plant Diagnostic Center in Gainesville and co-director of the National Plant Diagnostic Network. Growers in the course have described her as a “clear, concise and informative instructor” who help them “feel more capable identifying disease problems, and less intimidated by the disease books on the shelf.” The course will help attendees identify diseases and differentiate between disease and other issues and learn field-friendly diagnostic methods. This intermediate course is part of the Plant Health Professional Certificate.
The courses run from Sept. 8 to Oct. 3, 2025. Each course costs $285 per participant, with a 20% discount for registrations of five or more.
All course material is completely online and available at any time of the day. It includes pre-recorded videos, an interactive discussion board with Ph.D. professors and quizzes. Two new modules are activated each week during each course, for a total of eight learning modules.
Click here to register and for more information, or email greenhousetraining@ifas.ufl.edu.