On Tuesday the 24th March a group of children from the Nido were accompanied by their teachers on a visit to the garden, where they saw the greenhouse, collected some coffee and saw the biodiversity...

On the 15th March the Don Simón Club once again supported the 5K race, this time providing hot chocolate for race competitors. On the day members of the club learnt how to make hot chocolate in milk...

Recently we have been harvesting, fermenting, drying and roasting our cacao produce. Once we had then peeled the cacao roasted cacao beans the agricultural students learnt how to add value to the...

In agriculture class today my students and I planted six new banana plants in the cacao plot. Essentially, these will grow to provide more banana fruit but also to provide shade for the growing cacao...

This last week saw us finish the fermentation of our cacao harvest and its subsequent drying in front of the science department building for all to see. This was then finished by roasting the beans in...

This week our new terrace got a severe beating from a minor landslide which deposited a lot of rocks and soil debris onto the terrace. Not only was material pushed through the terrace, the result were...

After many months work with the wonderful Stefania “Stefi” Ruiz, the school´s webmaster, we have finally updated the blog to make it more accessible and fun to read about all our exploits...

With our newly established Terrace my students and I set about the task of making the terrace ready to grow the three sisters, maize, beans and pumpkins, an indigenous method to grow crops together...

During the Christmas vacation BGVs kindly came to school to water our Bolivar Garden. This meant that no more cacao trees died. Unfortunately, during the summer months, with no way to water the plants...