School Of Natural SciencesAlternative Crops (V1)Western Sydney University Unit Code: HT304A.1
Discipline: HORTICULTURE
Student Contribution Band: 2
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
About this Unit
This unit integrates a number of areas - botany, ethnobotany, plant production and marketing in a research and development context. It takes case-study approach, using a series of guest presenters in a workshop format as well as visits to experience production, marketing and use of alternative crops, a range of potential and under-utilised plants to develop principles, themes and concepts relating to the study, research and development and exploitation, where appropriate, of such plant species. These will provide opportunities for first-hand tasting/evaluation of a number of products. Crops to be investigated include food and fibre crops, fungi and other non-flowering plants, medicinal and culinary herbs and bush foods.