In August 2019, the first official harvest of coffee occurred in the Bolivar Garden, collected by Hugo Guerrero, our garden custodian. Since then we have had four more harvests from the 113 coffee trees in the Bolivar Garden. On average each tree produces around 10-40 beans of coffee, which actually are not bean, but the […]
In the past few months, the garden has been shaping up nicely, having coffee, garlic, ornamental tomatoes, carrots, citronella, papaya, plantain, and other plants that this class has planted. However, there was an extreme need for shade along all of the garden, where plants were receiving constant sun. For this reason, the class previously incorporated […]
We want to protect our stream banks and also capture nutrients that either pass through the soil or pass over the soil, due to run-off, before nutrients go into the stream. This stops eutrophication, the addition of nutrients to streams, rivers, waterways that can lead to an increase in algae forming. Whilst we do not […]
The planting, growth and maintenance of the CB garden coffee trees have been a long and rigorous project. Having started last school year, me and the old Agric class began the process by germinating all the coffee seeds provided by our very own Dr.Waliszewski. We selected the best of the seeds, about 200. We placed […]
After the main jobs such as, fixing the terraces, getting rid of the undergrowth in the coffee plants and the hotbeds, were done, we proceeded to work on the bean plantations. As always we tried to use the materials that we had at hand, in this case we used a wall of bamboo and tin, […]
When we first arrived to the class and went down to the garden for the first time, the terraces were well constructed but needed maintenance after the summer recess. The majority of the rocks had already been removed by the previous class, but we found that there were many small rocks still in the soil. […]
During the past year the Bolivar Garden and the associated agricultural science elective have gone from strength to strength. Last year we had our first produce, some cobs of corn, that we passed onto the school workers cafeteria. The Bolivar garden weekends, run each month, have been attended by parents and relatives of our students, […]
