What does a Skilled Horticulturist in the Rainforest Biome do?
We are each assigned an area within the Biome to look after and it is our job to maintain it. I look after the Tropical Crops from all over the world in the Cornucopia exhibit. This involves tasks such as weeding, general maintenance, making everything look tidy and nice jobs like pollinating. We are all trained to work on ropes and use Mobile Elevated Work Platforms, because we have to get up high to prune the trees. We do a lot of research about our areas and I travelled to Costa Rica in February to visit the Earth University. This enabled me to learn about what’s going on with producing major tropical crops in the world. This is an example of a brilliant training opportunity that Eden has given me. Working in the Biome involves a lot of teamwork as there are often big jobs which require us to all work together as a team. We usually do these jobs in the mornings before the public arrive. Two or three times a week for example, we will spend time between 7:30am and 10:00am watering all
