Membership

How does BSHS membership benefit you? Whether you are a student, or a horticulturists employed in a research-oriented institution, a teaching-focused institution, or a practice setting, BSHS membership benefits you in five career-enhancing ways. It helps you stay up to date on the discipline. It helps you with professional development. It helps you connect with people and opportunities. It helps you save money. And, critically, it gives you the opportunity to make a difference.

The BSHS is dedicated to serving horticulturists in their work, advancing horticulture as a science and profession, and promoting the contributions and use of horticulture to society. Any individual interested in these objectives is eligible for membership in the BSHS. It is the policy of the BSHS to recruit, invest in, and empower a diverse membership with an equitable and welcoming environment for all. This includes people of various cultures, nationalities, ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, gender identities, socioeconomic statuses, religions, physical or mental abilities, and political affiliations, as well as first generation students and faculty members.

This also includes people employed in all types of educational institutions–ranging from research intensive universities to community colleges and high schools, and those employed in practice settings—including government, business, non-profits, or other applied contexts. As a national association, we place value on dismantling power inequalities. We engage and respect diverse experiences through all our programmatic activities and in the business of the Association.