The past few months have seen both the staff members and the students at Chisholm Institute having a fairly steep learning curve in all aspects of the glasshouse management.
Our ability to not only grow crops to a reasonable standard as well as managing the climatic conditions that give optimum growth have greatly improved in the past 7 months. Whilst our first crop was always going to be something of a trial, we have ended up with some quite reasonable results.
Our initial crop was late in being planted (mid October) but we have decided to take this crop out at the end of this month with the aim to being fully replanted by the first week of July. This not only allows us to align ourselves with a more traditional crop production timetable, but also gives us a better alignment with the student timetable.
Whilst the crops are important to the facility, the driving force is the need for industry training. The teaching area is now well set up with student workstations that each have Priva Office on each computer, and a central Starboard that can not only show real time data from the Priva Integro, but will soon be able to be linked to a web cam that is being installed as part of our eGlasshouse project.
We are also planning to bring one of Privas leading climate advisers to Australia in August. Hein Jasperse will be hosting some specialised seminars on climate control and we will update you all on when this event will be taking place.
This Blog follows the developments, and training opportunities that are available at Chisholm Institute of TAFE's award winning National Precision Growing Centre. The facility is the only one of its kind in Australia and is designed to facilitate training for the greenhouse crop industry on a Local, Regional, National and International level. The Glasshouse is based on the Cranbourne Campus of Chisholm Institute of TAFE in Victoria. Additional link sites are listed below.
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