HORT 225 Sustainable Landscaping
(Contact Hours: 5) Students will learn to implement cutting edge methods of landscape management necessary for restoring, maintaining, and protecting the ecological services provided by developed landscapes. Students will learn how to retrofit existing landscapes to increase water and soil conservation, decrease urban heat island effects, enhance flora and fauna biodiversity, and increase ecosystem services for human and non-human residents. Students will also learn how socioeconomics affect greenspace management and access. They will also gain hands-on experience designing and installing lawn alternatives, native plants, and permaculture using sustainable plant and hardscape materials and low emissions equipment. Students will render two landscape designs that 1) retrofit an existing traditional landscape to have enhanced ecosystem services and 2) augment a "natural" space with new plantings and design elements. Minimum benchmarks will be enforced.