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The Ohio State University presents
Strawberry School Online 2025
Course Fee: $225
Deadline to Enroll: September 15
Live Lectures: September 18 & 25, 2025
Course Materials Access: September 18 – October 9, 2025
Learn the essentials of soilless production of strawberry under greenhouse and indoor controlled environment!
The Strawbery School Online offers all the keys to learn soilless production of strawberry under greenhouse and indoor controlled environment. Contents include strawberry physiology, cultivar selection, production practices, and systems. Six lectures will be delivered over two weeks and students can have options of participating live lectures or listen to the recordings. Students will be given additional two weeks to complete all lectures, and complete knowledge check to receive certificate of completion.
This course is most suitable for those who are new in controlled environment agriculture and interested in strawberry production under controlled environment conditions such as greenhouses and vertical farms.
Students will learn to:
- Develop comprehensive understanding of strawberry production physiology
- Become familiar with technologies and practices of strawberry crop in greenhouse and indoor vertical farms
- Integrate plant basic horticultural scientific principles into better understanding of soilless strawberry production systems and technologies
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Attend Live or Work Through the Materials at Your Pace
Live lectures will cover basics on strawberry physiology and production practices in greenhouses and indoor controlled environment – topics include 1) cultivars, 2) transplants and flowering physiology, 3) crop schedule, 4) nutrient solution and rootzone management, 5) environmental conditions and benchmark yields, and 6) IPM and environmental disorders. The first three topics will be covered in lectures in Part 1, and the rest will be covered in lectures in Part 2.
Live lectures are scheduled from 4:00 PM ET to 6:30 PM ET on Thursday September 18th (Part 1) and Thursday September 25th (Part 2).
Recorded lectures will be available within 24 hours for asynchronous viewing.
Students will be given additional two weeks (till October 9th) to complete course materials for the certificate of completion.
Greenhouse Strawberry School Part 1
Thursday September 18th | 4PM – 6:30PM ET
- Lecture 1: Introduction to greenhouse strawberry production and cultivars
- Lecture 2: Planting materials and basic physiology of flowering
- Lecture 3: Planning your planting date and finishing date
- QA and discussion
Greenhouse Strawberry School Part 2
Thursday September 23rd | 4PM – 6:30PM ET
- Lecture 4: Nutrient solutions and substrates
- Lecture 5: Environmental conditions and benchmark yields
- Lecture 6: IPM, plant management, and environmental disorders
- QA and discussion
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With Media Partner: CEAg World
Contact for more information: Dr. Chieri Kubota (kubota.10@osu.edu)