high school and middle school Horticulture and SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPE DESIGN

In 2025 the U.S. landscaping services market was valued at about $153.56 billion, while horticulture operations exceeded $13.8 billion. Both of these segments, like the rest of the green industry, are expected to continue growing, making them excellent career pathways for your students. Do you want an easier way to help your students gain technical skills, soft skills, workplace wisdom, and become future-proof in their career pathways?

This curriculum is easy to use and will engage your students in inventing new outdoor living spaces for a variety of clients. The projects help build a career-ready portfolio and provide real-world context to interactive tutorials, including plant science, soil science, sustainability, horticulture production, best design practices, and much more.

This media-rich, highly interactive curriculum will enable your students to learn how to invent new outdoor living spaces that are sustainable and add value to properties, while also understanding why career paths in horticulture and landscape design are so popular and fulfilling.

Every design begins as a sketch, evolves into a scale drawing, is presented to a client, and becomes a blueprint for contractors. Students will learn to transform their ideas from initial sketches to complete, implementable designs. If desired, you can use our free and optional 3D CAD tutorials to show how a sketch becomes a 3D design. You're the teacher, and it’s all up to you.

Along the way, students will learn critical STEM skills, build technical and soft skills, develop confidence, and create a college- and career-ready portfolio. Let this be an exciting introduction and a great first step towards advanced education or their career.