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Hi, welcome to the Tumut High School Agriculture Farm.
I’d like to show you around these school facilities here
at the Agriculture Farm.
To my left we have the student tool garden shed.
The students are instilled here that when they use the equipment
from that tool shed they need to wash that equipment
and put that back in the appropriate place.
It’s important to instil the tidiness and neatness of the farm
so that takes them onto their future careers.
Next to my left is our farm office, this is where
our farm assistant does a lot of his book keeping work.
He does a lot of maintenance of the tools, he records the data
that needs to be done on each particular day.
This site is point six of a hectare.
Immediately behind me you’ll see the establishment
of the student vegetable gardens.
At Tumut High School we have Year 7 and
Year 8 students establishing those.
Behind the gardens we then have the Year 10 sweet corn crop.
And behind the sweet corn crop we have a small orchard
which Year 10 students work with.
To my left we then have a small flock of Bond sheep.
We have three ewes and one ram.
This is sufficient enough for the facilities here because
we do have pressure on the grazing systems.
And through the holidays we may need to agist
these animals out.
We then move onto an important facility here at the school,
it’s the machinery shed.
In the machinery shed we have our larger equipment
like the tractors, the slasher, the tiller, the boom spray.
You can that this is obviously well established in terms of
equipment but also we need to maintain its security.
I will now then show you our poultry facilities.
Here we have a major part of our poultry unit here
at the Tumut High School Agriculture Farm.
Behind me to my left we have the growers’ shed.
This is where our broilers and pullets will grow out
to their particular age.
And immediately to my right is our greenhouse.
Students in Year 9 do a lot of propagation in Term 2.
That material is stored and housed in that greenhouse.
Year 8 students will do a hydroponic section in Term 3
of their year and their material and their unit is actually
established in the greenhouse.
Immediately beyond the greenhouse we then have the COLA,
the outdoor classroom area and this is where students
of all years studying Agriculture enjoy the experience
of being outside in the open environment and away from
the normal classroom atmosphere.
So, here we are in the outdoor classroom area of the
Tumut High School Agriculture Farm.
There are fantastic facilities here.
To my immediate left we’ve got the greenhouse, this is where
the hydroponics and the propagation material is kept.
Also to my left we have the potting shed.
In there we have a number of pots and propagation material.
We also have fertilisers which the students will use
in their vegetable gardens.
Immediately to my right we then have the entry to the main unit
of the poultry house and that is where our layers are housed.
I hope you have enjoyed our virtual tour of the
Tumut High School Agriculture Farm.
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