During our Bolivar Garden Saturday this month, the school was visited by Dr Vaast to discuss the viability of planting cacao at the school. The following The area is well suited to the planting of cacao The first step is to peg out the area in a 3mx3m triangular system to see the carrying capacity […]
The maize and tomatoes are both doing really well. Just look and see Thomas in the picture with the plants. We have also added a bed of garlic chives, basil, and some French beans.
Maps of the campus were printed and brought to the agricultural class and students and myself set about determining the location of and size of suitable areas to conduct the inventory. Groups were made and were assigned to at least two specific areas out of 21 designated areas in the campus. All areas of the […]
A NEW YEAR: Year 7 2022-23 This year is the Diamond Jubilee of the school, and quite rightly the Bolivar Garden wants to celebrate this in its own special way. As well as educating 21 students this year in the agricultural plant science elective two large projects are in the pipe-line: the first is to […]
One of the founding purposes of the Bolivar Garden was to build community and break down barriers in our school, through vocational learning – learning from others through a hands-on approach. Since the first ideas of a Bolivar Garden started in 2015 it has been imperative that we have never lost site of this goal. […]
We have planted the first items in the greenhouse. Students decided to try and grow tomatoes, corn and cucumbers. These were planted from seed in the case of tomatoes, heirloom seeds, and seedlings of maize that were germinated in the lab. These seedlings were planted at 15 cm spacing for maize in three rows in […]
After completing the build of the greenhouse together with attachment of the netting, the movement of the beds and the painting of the beds in Rainbow colours, we had to get enough soil and organic matter into the beds and let it rot down in order to be able to plant anything in the beds […]
It has been a full academic year and we have still not completely finished the greenhouse project – but we are very very close. The greenhouse almost completed. The netting was pretty much in place and only some small areas needed to be fixed! With the structure up and some beds in the greenhouse, we […]
Yep – we made a name change from Bolivar Garden Weekends to Bolivar Garden Saturdays, but these are still going strong. It took us a while to get back on our feet after the pandemic but we did so with a few sessions of BGS. As usual volunteers came together, enjoyed the time in the […]
After a year of gardening knowledge, research on almonds, and actual hardcore gardening, I have taken with me the greatest of gifts. I have never been a particularly emotionally stable person. Before I was old enough to actually join the elective, I’d broken my pinky toe so many times, I did garden work instead of […]
