{"id":1355,"date":"2023-08-04T00:19:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T00:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2025-04-07T20:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T20:52:32","slug":"a-new-academic-year-a-mature-agroforestry-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/2023\/08\/04\/a-new-academic-year-a-mature-agroforestry-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"A new academic year &#8211; A mature agroforestry plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We start the new school year revisiting our agroforestry plot which is now in its 6<sup>th<\/sup> year. The plot has matured, there is a lot of shade from our plantains and other trees.\u00a0 Nitrogen fixing trees, mata raton, are growing well and are regularly pruned to give nutrients directly to the coffee through their organic decomposition. This is supplemented by the decomposition of nacedero leaves taken from the trees lining our riparian zone, protecting the river from potential organic enrichment through run-off, and giving stability to the bank of our river.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1295\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1295\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1295 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-03-21-at-09.33.13-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-03-21-at-09.33.13-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-03-21-at-09.33.13-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-03-21-at-09.33.13-330x440.jpeg 330w, https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-03-21-at-09.33.13-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-03-21-at-09.33.13-45x60.jpeg 45w, https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-03-21-at-09.33.13.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Nitrogen fixing Nacadero trees growing well in our agroforestry plot<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The coffee trees are nearing the time where they have to undergo a pruning process \u2013 soka \u2013 so that they can re-grow to continue producing our high-quality coffee.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1353\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1353\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1353 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_20231118_104240043_HDR-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_20231118_104240043_HDR-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_20231118_104240043_HDR-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_20231118_104240043_HDR-330x440.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_20231118_104240043_HDR-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_20231118_104240043_HDR-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_20231118_104240043_HDR-45x60.jpg 45w, https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_20231118_104240043_HDR-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Our mature agroforestry coffee plot<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We start the new school year revisiting our agroforestry plot which is now in its 6th year. The plot has matured, there is a lot of shade from our plantains and other trees.\u00a0 Nitrogen fixing trees, mata raton, are growing well and are regularly pruned to give nutrients directly to the coffee through their organic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,11,12,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2023-2024","category-coffee","category-don-simon-coffee","category-overview-year-in-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colegiobolivar.edu.co\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}