Peter is from the Hunter Valley and moved to Sydney to join the team at the Royal Botanical Gardens for an apprenticeship in horticulture.
Peter wants to specialise as an arborist after he finishes his apprenticeship. Peter has a real interest in plants and trees for use in primary industries, such as fruit growing trees, herbaceous plants, medicinal plants and just simply edible plants.
SkillsOne chats to Peter about what it's like doing an apprenticeship - and working in the expansive Royal Botanical Gardens!
An Outdoor Lifestyle Sometimes it is a career/job that you never thought of that proves to be your niche. Give everything a go, and you never know what skills you can develop, what passions you could discover, and what great rewards you may reap! Here Gavin tells us his story...
From P.I. to Pipes Stuart Sinfield, of Protocol Plumbing, was always told by his parents, "Get a trade behind you." He listened, and completed his four year plumbing apprenticeship and led him into a business.
Australian Antarctic Division SkillsOne ventures down to the Australian Antartic Division in Hobart, talking to the tradies who travel to the coldest continent on the planet for work - Antarctica. Just what does it take to survive from the driest continent, to the coldest?
