Sarasota County Extension
Florida House Learning Center


The Florida House Learning Center is a model home and landscape featuring readily available environmentally friendly materials and methods for new and existing Florida homes and yards. The house features an energy-saving passive cooling design and many cost-effective and affordable building methods and materials available through off-the-shelf technology.

The Model Florida Yard is a demonstration landscape for the Florida Yards & Neighborhoods Program, which demonstrates Environmental Landscape Management (ELM) principles in design and maintenance.

This project is the culmination of a community effort involving contributions by hundreds of organizations, businesses, government agencies and individuals. The project is a joint venture of the UF/IFAS Sarasota County Extension (which operates the facility), the Sarasota County Technical Institute, the Southwest Florida Water Management District, and the non-profit Florida House Institute.

As of June 30, 2007, The Florida House Learning Center has temporarily closed to the public in order to move to an adjacent location on the Sarasota County Technical Institute Campus.  Please refer to THIS LINK for a Virtual Tour of the Florida House Learning Center.  Thank you for your patience during our move, and we hope to see you when we reopen at our new location!

SNN News Report on the Florida House Move

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 Florida House Temporarily Closed To The Public
  • The Florida House has moved to a new site and is currently closed to the public as it prepares for new energy, water, green building and universal design features. We anticipate that it may be ready to reopen to the public during the Fall of 2008. The Virtual Tour of the Florida House is available on line.    Click Here!
    Stay tuned for more information!

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