College Diploma - Horticultural Technician (0111) (Co-op)

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.