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! […]
Our Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station has a suite of sensors that are used to measure and calculate a variety of climate data. The sensors incorporated into the weather station are as follows: UV Sensor: a photodiode, that measures UV in the range of 280 to 360nm. It gives values of minimum, low, moderate, […]
We now have a really expensive and highly technological piece of equipment at the school – our Davis Vantage Pro 2 Weather Station. In this post I am going to inform you about the weather station, how you can get links directly to the data, and what this data actually means. If you have any […]
The greenhouse has been used to produce a good number of herbs, sage, basil, ponte alerio, fruit, tomatoes, and vegetables, maize, radishes and garlic chives, but has been shadowed by tree growth and excess humidity. Thus we have been enthusiastically weeding the greenhouse, pruning nacadero trees and our Inga edulis tree so that more light […]
During the last class of the week the agric students and I mananged to finish the planting of the 64 cacao trees in the plot! After 190 hours of human endeavour, from reassigning holes, mixing soil, digging out new holes, allocating clones to planting, we have done it! Now we just have to protect the […]
A wet day was expected for this years 5K race – we have a weather station and can predict the weather! We had a stand offering Don Simón Coffee to participants which went down really well. People could see live data from the weather station and were taken to the garden and showed around the […]
Early on a bright and sunny day a bunch of volunteers, students, teachers, parents, social service students (and some in detention) came to the Bolivar Garden to plant our 64 clones! The day started by collecting more compost from Carlos´s compost area and mixing it with soil residue from Dr Martin´s mushroom farm. This was […]
On the 28th of March Angel and I went with the school truck to Miranda, Cauca to the Fedecacao Research Centre to pick up the clones that we had ordered two years ago. It took us an hour to get there. Once there we were taken on a tour of the site where […]
On another bright and sunny day the location of the Davis Vantage Pro 2 Weather station was discussed with input from maintenance, IT, STEAM, Sustainability groups and the science department. After considering a number of locations the site settled for was behind the SWALL between the G and H blocks, just lower down from the […]
In 2022 we were on the cusp of finally purchasing a meterological weather station when unfortunately, the school was hit by a huge cyberattack and the plan had to be put on hold. Last year a census of how a weather station could be used by staff in their classrooms was made and the results […]
