CANNABIS HORTICULTURE Self-Paced CourseUnlock Your Potential in the Booming Cannabis Industry with Our Horticulture ProgramCannabis is a rapidly growing industry with endless career opportunities. Whether you want to work as a trimmer, tissue culture technician, or...
This class offers everything you need to know to grow cannabis at a commercial level, starting from seed or clone and ending with harvesting, drying, and curing your flower.
Meet with your instructors and classmates from around the world twice a week for 8 weeks via video conference to learn the most cutting-edge information available in the industry.
You’ll get the knowledge, connections, and certification to start your career in the exciting field of cannabis, plus the opportunity for virtual field trips, grow labs, and special events.
Our Horticulture Semesters provide the most comprehensive cannabis cultivation education and training available in the industry. Whether you’re looking to enter the industry, advance your career, launch your own business or upgrade an existing grow, this class is for you. Learn the latest technology, environmental controls, and scientific techniques to become more sustainable, ward off pests and pathogens, and increase your yields.
Oaksterdam is excited to announce our brand new Horticulture Program. We have completely overhauled our most popular course to reflect the latest and greatest tools and techniques in cannabis cultivation in line with the growing commercial market. Our January 2022 virtual Live Semester is enrolling now.
We’ve completely revamped our Horticulture curriculum with a focus on optimal growing conditions, nutrient delivery, integrated pest management, and the latest in lighting options. You won’t find a commercial cannabis class like this anywhere but Oaksterdam University!
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The Horticulture Online course provides the most comprehensive indoor horticultural education available for entering the Cannabis Industry and expanding your personal growth. This course consists of resources, presentations, grow labs, and mastery exercises developed by industry leaders. It is designed for anyone looking to learn everything from seed to harvest. The course will begin with federal V state law, giving you the vital information you didn’t know you needed. You will learn how to have successful law enforcement encounters, your constitutional rights, and best practices for operating safely and responsibly.
This free course is designed to give you an overview of the Learning Management System (LMS) and provide you with a sample lesson for evaluation.
This deluxe live classroom experience is the most thorough education available at Oaksterdam University. Classes are held once a week for 17 weeks in real-time, allowing you to network with students from around the world and interact with our expert faculty. You’ll also get the opportunity for virtual field trips, grow labs, and special events. As the highlight, you will work as a team on a Capstone Project based on real-world parameters and feedback from leaders in the field. You’ll finish with an OU certification and a custom grow facility design, ready to bring your ideas to life.
March 2-6 , 2020
Downtown Culver City, Los Angeles, CA
There are still seats available for our upcoming December Seminars, enroll today before they are sold out!
“Grower,” “entrepreneur” or “government official” are just a few of the titles held by students who seek out Oaksterdam University in Oakland, California to study cannabis.
Know the techniques necessary for growing from seed or clone successfully. Get strategies for working, launching, and sustaining a commercial cannabis operation. Learn cannabis plant science and the entire life cycle of the cannabis plant from propagation to harvest. Understand lighting science and controls, ventilation and CO2 supplementation, and electrical systems.
As soon as you enroll, you can start learning. You’ll have immediate access to all the videos of full lectures with opportunities to sign up and participate in live virtual field trips. Tailor the self-paced course to your schedule: take the mobile-friendly online course anytime, anywhere.
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As communities across the country build equity programs into cannabis law, Oaksterdam Alumni Perry Jones shines as a beacon of success.
Perry has gone through San Francisco’s Cannabis Equity Program and is well on his way to opening a dispensary in his community.
To bring his business to life, he has partnered with MMD Incorporated, a leader in providing safe, legal cannabis to customers through four retail dispensaries in Los Angeles. Their partnership will bring MMD’s first storefront to Northern California, with Jones as Co-Owner and CEO.
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Dale Sky Jones and Jeff Jones have been referred to as the “First Couple of Cannabis.” Dale is the Executive Chancellor of Oaksterdam University and Jeff is on OU’s Horticulture Faculty.
Recently, Mr. and Mrs. Jones did an extensive Q&A in Grow Magazine with Writer and Cultivator A.C. Moon. They talked about everything from their first interactions with the plant to where they see the future of the industry. They also discussed whether cannabis makes them better parents, PTSD from persecution, and policies they’d like to see enacted at the federal level along with much, much more …
CANNABIS EXTRACTION & MANUFACTURING Self-Paced CourseUnlock the Secrets of Extraction and ManufacturingThe market for cannabis edibles, beverages, topicals, and other specialty products is growing, creating a high demand for professionals with extraction,...