Against the background of fully promoting the strategy of rural revitalization, the focus of work concerning agriculture, rural areas and farmers has shifted to the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. As a core part of rural characteristic industries and efficient agriculture, the horticultural industry serves as an important support for increasing farmers’ income, optimizing rural industrial structure and achieving ecological livability. As an essence of excellent traditional Chinese culture, farming-reading education is an important approach for agriculture-related universities to foster virtue through education and cultivate talents who understand and love agriculture. Horticulture is closely connected with key fields of rural revitalization such as protected horticulture, production and circulation of horticultural products, and construction of rural horticultural landscapes. Carrying out the reform of farming-reading education is of great significance for strengthening students’ affection for their hometown, improving their practical and innovative abilities, and serving the upgrading of the rural horticultural industry. Taking Protected Horticulture, a core course of horticulture, as the carrier, this paper combines the demand for talents in rural revitalization, sorts out the current situation and practical challenges of curriculum construction, and explores the reform path from the perspectives of reshaping educational concepts, optimizing curriculum system, innovating practical teaching and reforming evaluation mechanism, so as to provide references for the implementation of farming-reading education and the innovation of talent training mode in horticulture majors in agriculture-related universities.