Finally as part of sustainability week I worked with all the 7th grade students explaining them how our Davis Weather Station works, seeing it in action and analysing the raw data that it collects. I linked this to an in-progress Walter Leith Climate Diagram that was used to explain how climate data could be shown, […]
Today is International Coffee Day which we celebrated with the Don Simón Coffee Club setting out our ideas and projects for the year and taking a group photo – it is one of the biggest High School clubs and I am immensely proud of them.
This week has been by far one of the busiest yet most rewarding weeks at Colegio Bolivar, especially as we in the science department have been at the forefront of Sustainability activities for our Sustainability Week. The week began with the opportunity to bring in Tomato expert David Bravo, his wife and Luna their dog […]
This is our first harvest of Don Simón in the new academic year, and my agricultural science students are incredibly enthused! My agric students just went down to the garden and came back with 10.8 kg of freshly picked coffee, and there is more to collect – higher up in the tall trees. Getting my […]
With the main structure now finished all that is left to do is to add netting to the sides and to the roof, cement the netting in, so that animals cannot get into the terrace and add a door. The school´s gardeners helped with putting up the netting and adding cement to the […]
We have just got back after the summer hiatus and have visited the garden with my new, huge, group of Agricultural Plant Science Elective students – 21 of them! One of the biggest classes I have ever had. The garden is a bit overgrown after the summer. The terrace needs to be finished so that […]
Once posts were in place and checked, Gustavo Ledesma, myself and a couple of BGVs set about the task of putting up our roof, made of PVC! This was completed in one Saturday morning. Placing of the netting took quite a bit more time.
With the posts in place and the majority of the terrace levelled, Diego Arias and Carlos Castillo checked that all was going well. When all posts were securely put in place, a friend of the garden, Gustavo Ledesma and I, along with the help of some BGVs, helped put up the roof structure. […]
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. This process was helped by a number of mingas with the school gardeners helping our students move the project forward. Digging holes was […]
In order to re-build the terrace we first had to breakdown what we already had. That meant dismantling the existing rock wall, weeding by digging weeds into the earth and levelling the terrace. This work took lots of weeks, lots of class time, was hard but incredibly rewarding. Phase one – complete! […]
