Kathryn Cronin, who studied Level 2 and Level 3 Floristry courses at Reaseheath College, successfully set up her sustainable floristry business Fierceblooms in 2016, which continues to flourish. Kathryn shares her Reaseheath experience in the article below. I started studying Floristry at Reaseheath College as a mature learner in 2014. I have a botany degree […]
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Past Reaseheath College Countryside Lecturer Leigh Cawley, who also studied with us in the 1970s, shares his memories and stories about the wonderful trees we have on campus, some of which are hundreds of years old.
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The International Cheese and Dairy Awards – the world’s largest cheese and dairy show – gave us the opportunity to celebrate 100 years of cheese making in our centenary year. Reaseheath has been training dairy students since its launch as the Cheshire School of Agriculture in 1921 and we marked the special occasion by producing
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BSc Wildlife Conservation and Ecology graduate Jack Wootton spent the summer studying how fish respond to reflective stimuli after being awarded a research scholarship by the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW). Jack, who is passionate about fish welfare and is particularly keen to improve the living conditions of fish in aquaria, applied for his scholarship while
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Talented Reaseheath College trained landscape gardener Matt Beesley has proved he is among the world’s best by taking silver at the WorldSkills finals in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Matt, from Winsford, and fellow team member Jonathan Gill, from Northern Ireland, achieved Britain’s first ever medal in landscape gardening at the global, Olympics style final. The pair had to prove
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Reaseheath agricultural graduates Chris Webb and Larry Anscombe have joined forces to form a thriving calf rearing business. Along with their friend Chris Roberts, the entrepreneurial pair launched their calf unit while they were first year degree students and continued to expand it alongside their studies. They have grown quickly from an initial intake of 30 calves
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Local parishioners and members of the agricultural community came together to celebrate the new farming year at a Plough Sunday service held at Reaseheath College, Nantwich. A packed congregation of almost 100 gathered at Reaseheath’s Centre for Horticulture, the Environment and Sustainable Technology to take part in the service and afterwards enjoyed a soup, bread and cake lunch
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Previously a self-employed gardener Rick joined Reaseheath to develop his business and future prospects. Rick completed his BSc (Hons) Landscape Design and Management in 2014, achieving First Class Honours, after ‘topping up’ his Foundation Degree in Garden and Landscape Design that he’d previously studied at Reaseheath. Since graduating Rick’s completed a Masters degree in Landscape
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Reaseheath graduate Joe Collins has been selected as one of four high-performing agricultural postgraduates who have received this year’s NFU Mutual Charitable Trust’s ‘Centenary Award’. Shropshire-based Joe graduated from Reaseheath in 2015 with an FdSc in Agriculture before topping-up his foundation degree at Harper Adams University. Joe fought off stiff competition from postgraduates from across
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We were delighted to welcome back two of our National Certificate in Agriculture (NCA) graduates to the college in July! Alan Pumford and Peter Robinson studied with us as part of our 1960-61 cohort and lived on campus for the duration of their training days. They spent the morning exploring old haunts across campus and
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