We have multiple projects going on in the garden this year. Not only have we continued our coffee harvesting but we have also begun a new project involving different types of sweet potato. Obviously, the fact that we have all this amount of new plants in the garden means that we should take extra care of them. This not only includes watering, but it also means that we must take care of our soils. The best way of taking care of our soils is by using the right composting, which can be handled through different processes. 

 

This year we decided that in order to continue our composting for the garden more efficiently, it was good idea if we used the other resources available at school such as the cafeteria. We decided to talk to the employees of the cafeteria and see if they could share the organic matter that was left behind every day. We would use this organic matter in order to allow our soil to increase its amount of nutrients and water. This will give our soil a better quality, which is necessary to supply composting to all the new plants that we are going to have in the garden.

 

We agreed that every day at the end of the day, the cafeteria workers would put their left over organic matter in a bin from which we could grab what we need in order to use as composting in the garden. We use a wheelbarrow in order to take down the organic matter from the cafeteria to the garden. We also developed a calendar so that every day two of us would take the organic matter from the bin down to the garden. 

Last year we put together a small sort of box inside our composting cage, where we would put in all of our organic matter. We used some bambú and put them together inside our cage. This is where we let the organic matter break down in a process called decomposition, which later allows us to have pure, organic composting in order to correctly manage our soils and our plants.