Mill focus paddock to plate

Rebecca Vukovic

By Rebecca Vukovic
Published May 28, 2015

Agriculture teacher Charles Mill is an educator with a big dream: to see more emphasis placed on engaging urban students in the sector that feeds and helps to clothe them.

And now that the St Joseph’s High School teacher from Aberdeen has been named the 2015 New South Wales Rural ...

This story appeared in the June 2015 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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