Landscape Design Fundamentals

Interested in becoming a landscape designer? Or are you designing/building a home and want to learn how to design the landscape so that they may inform one another and be ecologically minded? Or do you want to redesign your current landscape to support wildlife, provide edibles, manage stormwater, be resilient, or better align with your values and goals?

Whether you rent, own, are renovating or building a house, or are just looking to learn, this course can offer skill development in the assessment and design of a landscape to meet your (or your client's) goals and create a regenerative space that can be better integrated into local ecological processes. 

In this course, you'll learn

  • Intro to landscape design: ecology, psychology, history
  • How to do a site analysis
  • Fundamental landscape drafting skills
  • Approaches to conceptual planning & design 
  • How to draw a site plan and design details for your own home or other residential site
  • Intro to plant design: natives, edibles, function & beauty! 

Category

Land and Community Planning

Competency

Beginner

Credits

  • Sterling College: 2 Continuing Education Units ($260 additional)

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