{"id":1885,"date":"2020-12-02T09:45:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T08:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2020-12-03T08:59:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T07:59:38","slug":"agribusiness-at-the-seminary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/?p=1885","title":{"rendered":"Agribusiness at the Seminary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:right\" class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>contributed by Ms Danika Formosa, teacher of Agribusiness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past few weeks, our\nstudents have been very busy with agribusiness studies. Agribusiness is a\nvocational education subject which is offered to students who would like to\nlearn more about food production, aquaculture and cuniculture, amongst others;\nand don\u2019t mind getting their hands dirty! Our two groups have been working hard\nto grow some vegetables and flowers and learning about rabbits, respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"575\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201019_110411-e1606898484497-575x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201019_110411-e1606898484497-575x1024.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201019_110411-e1606898484497-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201019_110411-e1606898484497-768x1367.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201019_110411-e1606898484497-152x270.jpg 152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our year 9 students spent many\nlessons in the field, planting lettuce, cabbage, carrots and onions, amongst\nother things. Our year 11 students have been learning about rabbits and how to\ntake care of a rabbitry. Through agribusiness as a subject, students are given\nthe opportunity to learn about the farming industry in Malta and prepare for\nfuture jobs related to animal husbandry and care, fish and food production. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201119_113143-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201119_113143-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201119_113143-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201119_113143-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201119_113143-360x202.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of our year 7 SEN students have helped Ms Danika prepare some seed trays and plant some bean seeds. Once these germinate and grow, they will all be transplanted into the Seminary fields to continue growing and eventually will be used and sold within the Seminary Community.  Ms Danika has also been busy preparing vetch (\u0121ulbiena) for Christmas and taking care of our fish tanks.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"575\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201026_105201-e1606898662579-575x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201026_105201-e1606898662579-575x1024.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201026_105201-e1606898662579-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201026_105201-e1606898662579-768x1367.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201026_105201-e1606898662579-152x270.jpg 152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"575\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201123_102513-e1606898648302-575x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201123_102513-e1606898648302-575x1024.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201123_102513-e1606898648302-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201123_102513-e1606898648302-768x1367.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201123_102513-e1606898648302-152x270.jpg 152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been a very busy first term\nand we are looking forward to grow more crops and to share the result with the\nentire community! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>contributed by Ms Danika Formosa, teacher of Agribusiness Over the past few weeks, our students have been very busy with agribusiness studies. Agribusiness is a vocational education subject which is offered to students who would like to learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/?p=1885\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}