NMIT's Faculty of Earth Sciences' major involvement with this year's Seymour Alternative Farming Expo (SAFE), comprised 21 seminars attracting 260 attendees at SAFE over three days from Friday February 20.
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NMIT’s Earth Sciences faculty boasts a fully operational farm, vineyard, horse stud, forklift training area, glass houses for herb growing, a plant nursery, outdoor and indoor fish farms and well equipped science laboratories.
The Faculty of Earth Sciences offers a range of courses in:
- agriculture
- animal
- arboriculture
- aquaculture (fish production)
- cattle/goat/deer farming
- commercial herb production
- environmental management
- floristry
- food technology
- forklift and excavator operations
- horse studies
- horticulture
- land conservation
- landscape
- nursery
- rural merchandising
- science laboratory skills and technology
- sheep and wool harvesting
- turf management
- viticulture
- winemaking
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The Earth Sciences faculty also offers tailored training for industry in soil analysis, landscape design, skills testing and machinery licensing. It is also home to Australia's first technical resource centre dedicated to the provision of service to the blossoming herb industry.
