Course: HRT 219 Organic and Sustainable Practices

Final Project: Business Analysis

Final Project: Business Analysis

HRT 219:  ORGANIC GROWING AND SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES

Final Project: Business Analysis Description

There are many examples of local (within 100 miles of CLC) horticulture-related businesses or operations that are trending toward sustainable and even organic practices.  For this project, you will choose one of these businesses or operations, get to know it better, evaluate its sustainable practices and share what you have learned with the class.      ***Project selections (with contact person) due during Unit 9

Project objectives:

- Students will analyze a local, horticulture-related business or operation to assess its use of sustainable practices.
- Students will recommend additional practices or changes in practices to help the business be more efficient and sustainable.
- Students will communicate their evaluations and recommendations to classmates, instructor and business contact through writing and oral presentation.

To achieve the required and recommended content for this project, you will need to arrange a tour of this business or operation, schedule an interview with your business contact person, and do additional on-line or literature research.

Required Content:

- Business or operation name, location, years established
- Contact person for business
- Description of business – what do they do or sell?
- Business mission, vision or operating statement
- A minimum of three of their practices (either sustainable, or that they are trying to make more sustainable) evaluated and discussed.  These practices should correlate with practices we learned about in class.
- A minimum of two recommendations made for the business to gain sustainability

Recommended Content:

- Photos, video and/or other visual aids or props from business
- Evaluation and discussion of more than three practices
- Recommendation of more that two practices or changes for the business to gain sustainability
- And anything else creative, insightful, and/or informative that will help achieve the project objectives!!!

WRITTEN PORTION REQUIREMENTS:  ***Written portion due: Unit 15

- Paper must be typed (using Microsoft Word, etc.), single spaced, using 12 point, Times New Roman font.
- Length of paper should be no shorter than 4 pages and no longer than 7 pages.  I prefer concise writing, with high quality content (information, insight, etc.).
- Please write a well organized paper, free of spelling and grammatical errors.

PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS:  ***Presentations in class for Units 15 & 16

- Presentation must be 12-15 minutes long.  Please practice to make sure that your timing is correct.
- You must be prepared to field questions about your project from your classmates after your presentation (question and answer portion can exceed the 15 minutes).

Click on the item below to download and read the Final Project Description
- Final Project Description.doc (33.79 KB)

Click on the item below to download and read the Business Idea List
- Business Idea List.doc (24.06 KB)