Youths studies have been nourished by interesting debates over the last decades about how to approach youths from the perspective of social and human sciences. Despite these ongoing debates, youths are generally problematized, considering their heterogeneity and diversity of not only their definition, but also the way young people perform in different spheres of daily life. Hence, it is becoming increasingly necessary to focus on the ways young people tackle their life itineraries through their senses and interests.

Thus, the youth-labour-education triad has become more complex, given that young people’s movements from one sphere to another no longer present the linearity that characterized these processes several decades ago. By contrast, a fragmentation of the paths is observed along with changes in relationships among these movements. These processes are complementary and overlapping. The expectations of young people regarding these spheres, thus, become more complex, rendering the study of young people’s future life plans a fertile field of analysis.

Thus, it is essential to understand the context where life plans are schemed, to learn how young people interpret their experiences and provide them with the specific meanings to define their current movements and future expectations.

In this regard, this study seeks to contribute to youth studies by understanding the ways in which young people from horticultural families shape their life plans according to their education and work; particularly those young people from the horticultural belt in the district of General Pueyrredón, province of Buenos Aires.

In order to address the complexity of life plans, the conceptualizations from the social phenomenology provide insight into the sedimentation of young people’s experiences, that is, how these people develop and accomplish such plans. These conceptualizations also evidence how intermediate alternative projections are left aside, while others are truncated. Most importantly, they allow to understand this conformation from a socio-historical and cultural perspective. It is particularly interesting to focus on those cases of young people from contexts under constant transformation, such as rural and peri-urban areas.

It is preliminarily argued that young people shape their life plans based on their background and the sedimentations from their work and educational experiences, mainly those related to horticulture and related activities, such as marketing and transportation.

Through a qualitative approach, this investigation seeks to reconstruct the life stories of eighteen young people from families engaged in horticulture based on in-depth interviews conducted between 2017 and 2019. This study also seeks to thoroughly analyze the sedimentations that young people make of their work and educational experiences and understand how these sedimentations influence their life plans, evidencing the importance they vest in horticulture. This study ultimately provides an insight into how their life plans are shaped.