Evaluating Work Practices in Diverse Gardening Businesses

1. Key features of work practice organization.
a) Evaluate the work practice organization in terms of status and size in relation to both the Irish economy and world economy (if applicable).
Deep Routes Gardening is part of a company called The Funky Skunk. They have premises across the country with a funky skunk shop in Dublin, Bantry and Cork city. They have their gardening shop, Deep Routes Gardening in both cork city and Limerick and they also have a warehouse in Macroom. The company are just after buying a composting factory that went into liquidation. This will mean that they will be able to produce high quality compost for use in the plant nursery in West Cork and they will also be able to sell their new compost in their stores and to other stores also. The store in Cork City is where I did my one day a week work experience and it is a successful store with lots of regular customers that I saw from week to week. They specialize in aquaponic and hydroponic equipment in this store and also put a great importance on medicinal herbs, they are also one of a few places that sell CBD oil, the non psychoactive oil from the hemp plant. This oil has been proven to help with a number of medical

They travel across the country to provide their service to people of all ages and groups. Nearly every weekend my boss, Helen, was gone to a different county doing flower shows and every Friday she does the market in Bantry, Cork. This market gets a wide range of different people looking for different types of plants. We had older people looking for nice flowers, people on holiday looking for plants to decorate a holiday home and homeopaths looking for new medicinal herbs for their herb gardens. We even had children buying our cacti and succulents. With the interest in herbalism on the rise the impact on this company will be very fruitful, providing more custom from varying groups in