I am proud to announce that the newest set of monographs have been uploaded to the Bolivar Garden Blog. This years subjects include Cacao Jacaranda trees Tomato Aloe vera Moringa Tabaco Henna...

A number of year ago, we planted estacas of Mata Raton, Gliricidia sepium, a tree adapted to our environment, that is resistant to, and responds well to pruning. It is a nitrogen fixing tree, meaning...

The latest Bolivar Garden was a huge success with over 22 students from middle school social service coming along with their teacher and the middle school principal, Mr Rob Millet. Some volunteers...

The second High School Sports day competitive coffee collection event occurred this Friday. A huge number of 9th grade students won the competition by collecting over 6.5kg of coffee.  My two tenth...

In planning for the upcoming Bolivar Garden I went to the garden to see the progress of the remaining beans only to find that a massive trunk of a Chiminango tree had broken and smashed into the...

We recently harvested the maize that we planted in November last year. Not all the maize grew well due to the landslide that occurred, but we did harvest a variety of maize that is ready to be...

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...