Landscape Design Fundamentals Course @ Yestermorrow
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 just looking to learn, this course can offer skill development in the assessment and design of a landscape to meet your (or client) 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!
Students should come prepared by having a specific site in mind to work on and develop throughout the class or they can use the local example property provided. Gather pictures, building plans, lot maps, and any other maps or information you can find about your site. Think about your goals with landscape design and be ready to share.
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