Fleming College

Contributed by the Peterborough Horticultural Society:

At the Peterborough Horticultural Society’s monthly meeting on Wednesday, November 26^th, two deserving Fleming College students will be presented with $1,000 scholarships to support their education.

ADAM WOOD is an environmentalist who is currently studying Sustainable Agriculture at Fleming College after completing a bachelor’s degree in Education focusing on Environmental Science, Outdoor Education and Experiential Education. He worked for two summers for a non-profit youth development organization running an urban vegetable market garden with local teenagers. Adam is currently interning at a homestead near Cameron, ON looking after vegetables, pastures and livestock.  He is interested in pollinators and is hoping to bring his agricultural knowledge into the classroom at some point in the future.

“Winning the scholarship allows me to continue my education into understanding how to make use of the land in such a way as to allow it to flourish under my care. By combining the ecological systems found within the natural world with culturally appropriate skills, I dream of creating a farm that is a place of true fecundity,” says Adam.

MICHAEL MARCUCCI grew up in downtown Toronto and has always been fascinated by trees.  He is currently enrolled in an Urban Forestry Certificate Program at Fleming College – having already completed a bachelor’s degree at the University of Toronto in Forest Conservation/Urban Forestry.  While at UofT, Michael was on the Dean’s List and received multiple academic awards.  Michael has been an Urban Forestry Intern in Toronto, and the chair of a backyard tree-planting volunteer organization.  His future plans involve urban forestry and becoming a consulting arborist.

“I am very grateful to have received this award and will continue to do my best to make cities and semi-urban environments more green and livable. Receiving this scholarship has reaffirmed the feeling that I am pursuing a career in something that is meaningful to me and also to others,” he says.

With the proceeds for the Peterborough Garden Show and other fundraising efforts, the Peterborough Horticultural Society is pleased to offer these scholarships to qualifying students who are studying horticulture or horticulture-related fields.  To qualify, the student must be present or former residents of Peterborough City or County and studying horticulture at any post-secondary institution or must be any Canadian student at Trent University or Fleming College studying horticulture, landscape design or other environmentally-related program.

Since 2002, the Peterborough Horticultural Society has been proud to award almost $150,000 in scholarships and community development grants to deserving students and community groups.  Further information about PHS scholarships and grants can be found at:  http://www.peterboroughgardens.ca/Showspending.html