We are now ready to level the terrace and begin the process of putting posts into place. We are planning on using 18 plastic posts, digging holes and securing them with cement.
Diego Arias checking and correcting our work on setting out the terrace. He checked our corners, the size and boundaries before any work was started.School gardeners setting out posts per our size requirements. Posts were placed at roughly 3 m intervals.Setting posts in place usually took two to three people to do correctly. Corner posts were the most important.We had to make sure that posts were level, in line with each other and straight. Plumb lines and levels were used all the time.
Mixing concrete to the correct proportions was something that our gardeners taught students. All hands were needed to do this work.A recently mixed batch of concrete being put into place by student volunteers during a Bolivar Garden Saturday.BGVs all worked together – students, teachers and parents, setting a post in concrete.
This process was helped by a number of mingas with the school gardeners helping our students move the project forward. Digging holes was a tough process, and setting out the posts was technical in that they had to be square to one another, and in line. This was checked by our school engineer, Diego Arias, and our wonderful gardeners led by Carlos Castillo.
BGVs (Bolivar Garden Volunteers) levelling out the terrace to make one continuous terrace structure.
At the same time as we were placing posts, volunteers and students helped level the land, and set the posts in place.
Phase two – levelling the terrace and digging post holes
