The very first thing that was done in the garden, almost 10 years ago now, was to build our two level terrace. We did this by levelling a piece of land and enclosing it with rocks. Since its inception we have grown maize, sweetcorn, beans and casava on the terrace, but we have always been […]
Once posts were in place and checked, Gustavo Ledesma, myself and a couple of BGVs set about the task of putting up our roof, made of PVC! This was completed in one Saturday morning. Placing of the netting took quite a bit more time.
With the posts in place and the majority of the terrace levelled, Diego Arias and Carlos Castillo checked that all was going well. When all posts were securely put in place, a friend of the garden, Gustavo Ledesma and I, along with the help of some BGVs, helped put up the roof structure. […]
We are now ready to level the terrace and begin the process of putting posts into place. We are planning on using 18 plastic posts, digging holes and securing them with cement. This process was helped by a number of mingas with the school gardeners helping our students move the project forward. Digging holes was […]
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 […]
