On Sunday the 1st March 2020 over 700 competitors ran in the fifth Colegio Bolivar 5K Verde Run. This event brings together all members of our community in a fun, for some a grueling, 5K run around the school and surrounding area. The run also is a catalyst for planting trees for our city, Cali, […]
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 […]
After the success of planting coffee in the Bolivar garden, we are hopeful for this next project that is coming. As an assignment for agriculture, each student has to work on writing a monograph about a plant we were interested in. In my case, I chose to write about Phaseolus vulgaris, which is the common […]
Don Simón has finally become a reality. After the planting of the first trees in 2017, we have had our first major cosecha and processed the beans, and our graphic design department has come up with our logo. The first Don Simón to be prepared and drunk was done so with staff on the 19th […]
After the coffee has had enough time to harvest we have to pick them off the plant. We do this by looking at the color of the shell of the coffee, if it’s anywhere from a vibrant red to a yellowish tinted red; then, the coffee is ready to be picked from the plant. […]
In August 2019, the first official harvest of coffee occurred in the Bolivar Garden, collected by Hugo Guerrero, our garden custodian. Since then we have had four more harvests from the 113 coffee trees in the Bolivar Garden. On average each tree produces around 10-40 beans of coffee, which actually are not bean, but the […]
In the past few months, the garden has been shaping up nicely, having coffee, garlic, ornamental tomatoes, carrots, citronella, papaya, plantain, and other plants that this class has planted. However, there was an extreme need for shade along all of the garden, where plants were receiving constant sun. For this reason, the class previously incorporated […]
We want to protect our stream banks and also capture nutrients that either pass through the soil or pass over the soil, due to run-off, before nutrients go into the stream. This stops eutrophication, the addition of nutrients to streams, rivers, waterways that can lead to an increase in algae forming. Whilst we do not […]
The planting, growth and maintenance of the CB garden coffee trees have been a long and rigorous project. Having started last school year, me and the old Agric class began the process by germinating all the coffee seeds provided by our very own Dr.Waliszewski. We selected the best of the seeds, about 200. We placed […]
After the main jobs such as, fixing the terraces, getting rid of the undergrowth in the coffee plants and the hotbeds, were done, we proceeded to work on the bean plantations. As always we tried to use the materials that we had at hand, in this case we used a wall of bamboo and tin, […]
