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Maryland’s Green Industry is Growing:

A Look at Past Scholarship Recipients

What piece of advice do you think would be helpful something valuable- whether it be my passions, which
for others following in your footsteps? workplace dynamic best suits me, things I would not do
again, how to be a team player, or things I never thought
My advice would be to take as many experiences as
you can get. I have had a large variety of jobs through I would be doing, like assisting in the birth of a lamb. I
university and post-graduation, such as greenhouse have become confident and feel capable of learning and
researcher, teaching assistant, sheep farmer, gardener, executing new skills. That confidence is fulfilling, and I
landscape designer, caretaker for a quadriplegic person, encourage everyone to go out of their comfort zone.
Door Dasher, personal chef, hair stylist, and lavender
farmer. Each one of these experiences has taught me Alyssa Steele at Monet’s Water Lily Pond cleaning off the water surface.
Photo credit Tanner Smith

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