Education
  1. •H.S.C St Gregory’s Agricultural College – 1st Aggregate Agriculture and Biology
  2. •Certificate of sheep Husbandry and wool technology, Wagga Wagga TAFE
  3. •Certificate Of Agriculture / Farm management Wollongbar TAFE
  4. •P.D. Certificate, Lismore
Industry Qualifications
  1. •Agribusiness Quality Assurance
  2. •Chemical handling certificate
  3. •Integrated Pest Management
  4. •Soil Food Web Advisor Training – Soil Microbiology and crop production
  5. •Human Resource Management – Train the Trainer I and II
  6. •Work Place Assessment training
Experience
  1. •Managed family farm / wool, fat lambs, mixed cropping
  2. •Managed Rural Contracting Business including crop harvesting operations / shearing contracts and registered wool dealership
  3. •10 Years mixed horticultural experience: avocados, pecans, citrus, bananas
  4. •Established ’Pinchin Lane Organics’ 25 acre horticultural enterprise OHGA Cert A Grade Organic Farm. banana pecans, small crops
  5. •Farm planning / crop production consultant
  6. •Co-designer and manager Challenge City Farm Project, Lismore
  7. •Published researcher / writer ’ABC Gardening Australia’ and ‘The Organic Gardener.’
  8. •Published in wide range of agricultural publications
Government Boards
  1. •Planning NSW - Member of Reference committee
  2. •LLC special projects Agriculture
Technical Committees
  1. •Integrated Property Management Planning and Agricultural Reserves Mapping Project  
  2. •NSW TAFE
  3. •Industry Panel of Review – Agriculture
  4. •AFFA
  5. •Regional cuisine – Commercial Kitchen Business Incubator Steering Committee
Industry Boards
  1. •Tweed Richmond Organic Producers Organisation
  2. •NSW Federation of Co-Operatives
 
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