How ya gonna keep 'em down on the nursery?

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Dan Clost wrote, "What is happening in your parts of the country to make horticulture an attractive vocation for our young people?"

Perennial Plant Association offers scholarships, helps place interns, and awards a "Young Grower of the Year" award annually.
Ball Publishing recently stopped accepting nominations for a similar award, Outstanding Young Grower (under 35).
GPN magazine and Nexus sponsor an internship program.
Many Universities and public gardens, even zoos, offer or participate in internships. 
But this doesn't really answer the question, does it? An intern has to come to one of these programs already fired with the desire to go into a hort career of some sort. What starts that fire? 
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