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 […]
Though a good deal of work was done early on to construct the staircase the agric students were all involved in digging out terrace #1 and constructing the stone wall. Now with smaller groups working on the terrace path and terrace #2, and with the addition of a saw, Laura, Manuela and Gabriel have secured […]
We continue to work on Terrace number 1, our 18 m flat terrace. The wall has been finished though we still need to pack the remaining four meters of stone wall with grass sod to compact it. The path is near completion, thanks to the hard work principally by Carolina, Valentina, Juan David and Juan […]
Diego Arias, turned into our Father Christmas, with the kind gift of an old but trusty wheelbarrow. Gabriel and Manuela have both been responsible for painting it Purple, and a number of students (Christian, Gabriel, Juana, Isabela and Juan Guillermo) have already been using it to transport soil from our new terrace to fill in […]
After the Christmas holidays we came back to an overgrown hillside, and weeds and bamboo shoots growing, in our partially constructed terrace. Weeds were weeded and the bamboo shoots were dug out and replanted at the side of the garden, by Juana, Isabella, Catalina, Laura and Gabriel. They are looking “a bit dead and withered” […]
One of the most important aspects of the agriculture course is inclucate the idea of reducing consumption, reusing equipment and resources and recycling materials where possible. When I came into the Limoncillo carpart at the start of the year I noticed a lot of used wood, planks in cement filled plastic bottles and logs cut […]
