Students, teachers and whanau from a Northland school have spent a day learning about environmentally friendly farming on a dairy farm.
Northland Regional Council's Enviroschools co-ordinator Susan Karels said about 100 students visited a 93 hectare dairy farm at Kokopu, which won the top Ballance Farm Environment Award earlier this year.
School children visited a dairy farm recognised for its environmentally friendly practices. Photo: SUPPLIED
Students got to see sustainable agriculture in action through mini-workshops on the farm which covered effluent use, wetland management, possum plucking and silage, Ms Karels says. And the learning doesn't stop there.
"They go back to school and follow through with some of the things that they have experienced in the day," she says.
"The teachers will be bringing out new and different messages as the learning goes on from there."
One of the aims of such programmes was to encourage students to consider a career in agriculture.
"It's never too early to think about what you might like to be when you grow up. So definitely careers and seeing farming as a great industry and a great place to be employed in the future," Ms Karels says.
