Greenmount Resource Centre
The state-of-the-art GRC provides a comprehensive and advanced suite of IT and library facilities. This includes computer and Internet suites, group study rooms, an audio resource centre and a lecture theatre, all of which are designed to provide students with a quality learning environment.
College Farms
The College Farm is made up of the Farm Development Centre (205 ha) and the Livestock Development Centre (1,100 ha).
The two centres provide a unique resource for students to adopt a learning by doing approach to their studies within the campus courses. Furthermore, the centres are used extensively by Technologists and Advisers to demonstrate and promote the adoption of the latest technological advances within the livestock and arable crop sectors.
Horticulture Development Centre
Greenmount Campus is set in over 18 hectares of landscaped grounds, originally laid out in the 19th century. Some of the original parkland trees provide the structure for the more modern gardens today.
Horticulture students develop practical, technical and management skills in the Campus's two Horticulture Centres.
Machinery and Buildings Centre
This complex enables all machinery and building activity for agricultural students at Greenmount to be concentrated in one specialist building. It includes three fully equipped workshops, a series of welding/construction booths, a 'soil shed' for the practice of machinery operation, a buildings demonstration and display area. Included are teaching rooms and IT facilities linked to the main campus complex.
Computer Facilities
Greenmount Campus currently has four student and one Industry Training computer suites, all with Internet access and printing facilities in addition to a number of open access computers. Greenmount Campus's computer facilities are upgraded on an ongoing basis.
Walled Garden
The Amenity Horticulture Centre includes a large walled garden. It has been in continual use since it was built in the 1820s and a major redevelopment programme is nearing completion. The garden has been redesigned in dramatic formal style and is one of the largest public sector and private sector partnership projects for the millennium in Northern Ireland.
Greenmount Trail
The Nature Trail at Greenmount and the Hill Farm form the basis of the Project Management modules within the HND in Rural and Countryside Management course where students are expected to manage and develop such areas under supervision of an advisory board.
The Trail attracts over 6,000 visitors per year and provides an ideal management project for Rural and Countryside management HND students. Free field teaching experience using the Nature trail is provided by a new RSPB/Greenmount partnership which offers the opportunity to investigate a variety of farmland habitats and their wildlife.
Conservation and Environment
Few Colleges can match the resources Greenmount Campus has to offer students interested in countryside management. Not only is the Campus set in 18 hectares of parkland, but it also boasts a further 300 hectares of lowland farmland, including areas of broad-leaved woodland and wetland. A further 1,000 hectares of upland are farmed at the College's Hill Farm which is included within a Special Protection Area (SPA) designation.
