Motivated conservation students have been celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee plus our own 100th birthday by planting a new wood of carbon busting trees. The 800 trees – a wide mix of British native species – were donated to us by The Conservation Volunteers as part of its ‘I Dig Trees’ campaign. The charity is […]
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Reaseheath College has donated a ‘Discovery’ apple tree to Nantwich’s Community Orchard as part of its year-long centenary celebrations. The variety was developed in the 1950s and is one of the earliest English eating apples. It joins a further 47 fruit trees in the orchard, which is on Nantwich Riverside near Shrewbridge Road and is
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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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Jason Edwards FDQ Level 2 Diploma in Professional Butchery 2020 Next step: FDQ Level 3 Diploma in Professional Butchery Ambition: Butchery business owner Jason said: “Butchery is a great career for young people, particularly if you like being active and creating things with your hands – and it’s taken me further than I ever thought possible! “I’m an apprentice
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Callie Clarke-Smith Level 3 Extended Diploma in Sport (Performance) 2021 Next step: Football scholarship in USA Ambition: Play for England Callie says: “I play football to quite a high level and I chose to study Sport at Reaseheath because I could learn and train at the same time. “It’s been my first year at senior league level with Stoke City Women’s
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A Chartered Institute of Horticulture ‘Young Horticulturalist of the Year’ regional runner-up, Matt Wood has an eye for innovation. Matt, 26, joined Reaseheath from school and progressed to a Level 3 Diploma in Plant Production, which he completed in 2005. He now runs The Tiny Plant Company based in Weaverham, Northwich with fiancé Susi Boxall
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Talented floristry students from Reaseheath College, Nantwich, are celebrating after taking a top medal at RHS Flower Show Tatton Park (July 20 – 24). The student team of Jacqueline Tudor, Shiona Fosh, Helen Cooke and Robyn Longden were awarded a silver gilt medal in the hotly contested RHS Future Florists competition. Their achievement, which saw the students
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Research by Reaseheath herpetologist Dr Simon Maddock has helped to formally identify a new species of Indian lizard, the Giri’s geckoella Cyrtodactylus (Geckoella) varadgiri. A scientific paper containing a species description of the lizard, which was co-written by Simon, has been published today (Friday 23 September) in the peer reviewed scientific journal Zootaxa following an in-depth examination by
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Twenty-one trainee dairy technologists reached a significant career milestone last week when they graduated from their unique Eden training programme, delivered by Reaseheath College in Cheshire. The bespoke education initiative is supported by leading companies in the dairy industry such as Müller, Arla, Dairy Crest and Rodda’s Dairy, and is aimed at producing world-class staff. The companies collectively invest over £1 million
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BSc (Hons) Equine Science graduate, Ashley Neely, found her niche in the equine market after graduating from Reaseheath by launching the first mobile equine faecal egg counting business in Northern Ireland. Ashley’s company, EFEC Nutrition, offers clients on yard faecal egg counts which help diagnose the horses worm burden and advise on how to keep their horses
