Cascade View Nursery Academy Internal nursery manual for the Taylor family

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This is the internal, self‑paced training hub for building and running a year‑round container nursery in Newberg, Oregon. Use the modules below to learn, build, and standardize how you operate.

One page per lesson Printable SOP mindset Built for scaling to 25,000 plants

Propagation

From cuttings to liners: room setup, mist control, SOPs, troubleshooting, and scaling.

Start: Module 0 → Lesson 1 → Lesson 4

Infrastructure

Master site plan, water, irrigation, drainage, power, structures, potting areas, and phased expansion.

Start: Module 0 → Lessons 2–4

IPM & Disease

Scouting, sanitation, thresholds, quarantine, and outbreak response playbooks.

Start: Module 0 → Lesson 1 → Lesson 2

Nutrition & Fertigation

Water quality, media, injectors, standard feeding programs, and troubleshooting (including acid lovers).

Start: Module 0 → Lesson 1 → Lesson 6

Container & Production Ops

Receiving, labeling, spacing, watering ops, pruning, QC, culls, labor rhythm, and scaling.

Start: Module 0 → Lesson 2 → Lesson 3

Sales, Grading & Shipping

Product line planning, grade specs, price sheets, availability lists, order SOPs, staging, and loading.

Start: Module 0 → Lesson 3 → Lesson 6

How you’ll win: Build systems once, then run them with repeatable SOPs. Uniform crops + predictable scheduling = profit.