After the summer recess my new students and I came back to see that the school´s iguanas had had a great feast on our planted pumpkins and that the two terraces that had been developed before the summer had become overgrown with grass. The first task was to get rid of the grass. This was […]
A lot has happened in the first two months of the new academic school year. We have a eleven new students from 11th and 12th grade; new work in the garden; involvement from the wider Colegio Bolivar Community; trips and future plans. Please read the new blogs to have a deeper look into what has […]
We are delighted to invite members of the school community to come and work with us in the Bolivar Garden. The dates of the Saturday sessions are as follows: 16th September 2017 21st October 2017 18th November 2017 16th December 2017 20th January 2018 10th February 2018 10th March 2018 14th April 2018 12th May […]
Towards the end of the first year of agriculture the students and I thought it would be interesting to try and grow pumpkins for Halloween celebrations commencing in October. We were kindly provided with pumpkin seeds by Dr Casey Hurley and Ms. Amanda Smith (an ex 6th grade teacher). We prepared the land with agriculture […]
March to June were the last months of the first year of the Agric Science course. The students were working hard on their monograph projects (which have been uploaded to the Monograph Page on this blog) to complete them, with some excellent pieces of high quality research. In the garden the students worked hard on […]
The students organised and prepared a lovely bbq for the staff and themselves. Some pictures from the event.
Digging through the second terrace has been hard work due to the hard nature of the ground – it has been very dry. Developments in the second terrace. Before and after (top to bottom). You can see piles of soil transferred from the second to the first terrace waiting to be spread out and […]
Work on the top path is in the hands of Christian, Andres “Billy” Felipe, Juan Mario and Nick N. They have been using the cement filled bottles with wooden planks (that were salvaged from the Limoncillo Car Park) to form a foundation for wooden planks that are interlinked in a herringbone fashion. This is hard […]
