School farms provide advantages to their students and their local community through:

• maintaining and extending valuable educational programs for students in rural areas,
• becoming an integral component of the school’s educational, enterprise and vocational related activities,
• catering for different learning needs, interests, circumstances and aspirations among the student population and the wider community,
• providing valuable links to school curricula and authentic learning environments in order to carry out extended study options in areas like ecology, biodiversity and food handling safety,
• expanding the post-school options for young people through successful educational programs with identifiable pathways to further education, training and employment and
• offering unique opportunities to forge closer links with other education and training providers such as colleges, TAFE Tasmania, farmers and graziers associations and industry.

Students are able to plan pathways that incorporate Certificate 2 courses in horticulture, agriculture or viticulture thus building a skilled workforce to support Tasmanian industries.

School farms provide access to training programs which assist in raising the awareness of health and safety and work to reduce accidents in farming and forestry.

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