Program Description
Horticultural technicians are focused on sustainable growing techniques and maintenance practices to help increase the biodiversity of the urban/suburban landscape.
Highlights:
- The 125-acre Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus serves as a living lab with the Niagara College Greenhouse Nursery, Ontario’s largest training greenhouse, newly renovated landscape design studio and computer lab, and a heated landscape workshop.
- Study and research new technologies for generating flowers, fruits, turf and trees.
- Gain practical experience exploring sustainable growth techniques in the campus landscape, gardens and greenhouse.
- Hands-on learning of plant health to protect biodiversity in nature.
- Graduates can earn a co-op diploma in landscape, greenhouse or horticultural fields with an additional year of study.
