Manuela Borerro and Sara Escobar raised the standard of senior projects at Colegio Bolivar this year conducting innovative and original research on palma areca. The title of their project was “Measurement of Chrysalidocarpus lutescens H.Wendl. for the creation of allometric equations to estimate carbon content and CO2 equivalency”. This senior project began the during their […]
Alejandro Ortiz and Juan Estaban Martin conducted research on intercropping plants, Arachis pintoi, (Mani forerjero), Zingiber officinale (Ginger) and Curcuma Longa (Tumeric) with bananas rather than the normal method of using bananas as an intercrop with other species: “How does the intercropping of a mono-crop of banana Musa sp. L benefit the crop: soil quality, […]
Maria Camila Tatis, a senior in the class of 2024, not only is a great student who is now going to study dentistry in Bogota, Colombia, but also has an incredible skill and talent. She is an expert Pastry Artisan, with a renown for baking cakes and pastries amongst her fellow students. Thus I tasked […]
In today´s Bolivar Garden activity we made our first pruning of our Catimore Coffee trees. This was led by our friend and mentor, Dr Phillipe Vaast of CIRAD. He taught the volunteers how to select where the trees have to be cut, and led a practial session of how to do this with our volunteers. […]
Following the visit to Agrosavia in the previous academic year, and staking out the cacao plot it has been determined that we will have space to plant 64 cacao trees. The current agricultural plant science students were asked whether they wanted to maximise production of cacao, or maximise quality of production. Discussions were had as […]
After having worked so hard on presentations for the IXth International Symposium students were glad to get back to the garden and see that the Banana plants that they had planted earlier in the year were growing well in the cacao plot. In October the school had its Accreditation Visit from Cognia. Students took the […]
We have just spent a Saturday with volunteers of the garden and students from social service working on digging holes that were staked out by agricultural plant science students. This hard work is necessary to prepare the site for the cacao trees that we intend to plant!
This September an international symposium is being held at University del Valle, sede Melendez from September. Students were asked if they would like to go and present work that they have been doing in the garden. All agreed that this would be a good idea. For the past four weeks since the start of the […]
During the first Bolivar Garden Saturday of the new school year a lot of time was spent cleaning and pruning up our plantains and harvesting heirloom carrots by student volunteers!
We start the new school year revisiting our agroforestry plot which is now in its 6th year. The plot has matured, there is a lot of shade from our plantains and other trees. Nitrogen fixing trees, mata raton, are growing well and are regularly pruned to give nutrients directly to the coffee through their organic […]
