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 Press article on Greenmount - Land of Learning  Cover of Greenmount - Land of Learning  Derek W. Alexander - author of Greenmount - Land of Learning  The advertisement for a suitable site which was inserted in the Belfast News Letter on 23 July 1908 seeking a farm "convenient to railway station", so that students could travel to Greenmount by rail  Ken Campbell and a class discuss pig breeding management on pasture in the 1930s  Potato gathering in progress on the Abbey Farm  Margaret Patrick (née Black) demonstrating the points of a White Leghorn fowl in 1960. At that time, poultry was a very significant enterprise on many Northern Ireland farms  Anthony Brady with his horses - he was on the Greenmount staff for 53 years and was well-known to generations of students, many of whom he taught to plough properly  Ploughing and disking on the Abbey Farm  A silage demonstration on O'Neill's Farm with Sam English and students  The suckler cow herd on the Glenwherry Hill Farm. The College considered that this type of farming should be demonstrated at Greenmount since a large part of Northern Ireland was comprised of hill farming land  Students learning about the management of sheep in various conditions  Greenmount and Irish Fertiliser Industries collaborated on the reconstruction of the walled garden within the grounds of the College as part of the Millennium celebrations. The Richardsons Walled Garden was officially opened in 2001  John McKeown and Victor Woods together with experimental staff on the Abbey Farm  Greenmount Association logo  High spirits at one of the student concerts, some of which over the years have stretched the limits of tolerance! Our address is, The Old Potato Station, 14 Howard Street South, Belfast BT7 1AP. 
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