The Farm Planning course is offered as a series of weekend workshops at NMIT's farm. Students will be required to purchase or supply an aerial photograph of their case study property. The NMIT's Training Center can be used for students who do not have a property of their own to use.
Some of the topics covered in this Whole Farm Planning course include:
- History of whole farm planning,
- Purchase of aerial photographs,
- Land classification and capabilities,
- The planning process,
- Sustainable land management,
- Soils, limiting factors for land use,
- Soil sampling and understanding analysis results and
- Soils practical exercise.
Students should download the application form from NMIT's website, complete and email or post the form to NMIT.
The Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT) offers a range of innovative, practical Vocational Education Training and Higher Education programmes.
The NMIT courses are designed and developed with industry participation to give the student the best employment outcome. Based across the northern region of Melbourne, NMIT has six metropolitan campuses, Preston, Collingwood, Epping, Fairfield, Greensborough and Heidelberg and a rural campus in Ararat.