Early on a bright and sunny day a bunch of volunteers, students, teachers, parents, social service students (and some in detention) came to the Bolivar Garden to plant our 64 clones! The day started by collecting more compost from Carlos´s compost area and mixing it with soil residue from Dr Martin´s mushroom farm. This was […]
On the 28th of March Angel and I went with the school truck to Miranda, Cauca to the Fedecacao Research Centre to pick up the clones that we had ordered two years ago. It took us an hour to get there. Once there we were taken on a tour of the site where […]
On another bright and sunny day the location of the Davis Vantage Pro 2 Weather station was discussed with input from maintenance, IT, STEAM, Sustainability groups and the science department. After considering a number of locations the site settled for was behind the SWALL between the G and H blocks, just lower down from the […]
In 2022 we were on the cusp of finally purchasing a meterological weather station when unfortunately, the school was hit by a huge cyberattack and the plan had to be put on hold. Last year a census of how a weather station could be used by staff in their classrooms was made and the results […]
After almost two years we are finally ready to receive and plant our cacao plants. This has meant in the last two weeks we have been re-assessing and mapping out where plants will be planted. Having had the holes dug and filled with compost over a year ago, and with stakes having rotted away or […]
Our terrace has been fallow for a year during the time we have been working on our cacao plantation. Now we plan to enlarge, improve and enclose the terrace. The first steps were to mark out the terrace and determine its new size. With students and volunteers we delimited the boundaries of the new […]
With a new batch of seedlings bought from Don Simón funds, students set about germinating seedlings of many types of brassicas (cabbages, kohl rabi, brussel sprouts and kale) and carrots, scorzona, parsnips and turnips. Seeds were germinated in newly purchased seedling trays and managed by students. Tomato plants were also seeded as were other herbs […]
Diego Narvaez produces all our Bolivar Garden notices. Time to give the amazing man some credit. Thank you so much Diego!
A fun time was had on the last day of the year with Agriculture students and teachers sharing and cooking food in the garden. I pretty much failed at starting the fire leaving this in the hands of my students who quickly got it going! Merry Christmas and onwards to 2025!
On Saturday the 23rd November, Dr Sonia Ospina and her 20 agroforestry students from UniValle, sede Palmira, came to visit Colegio Bolivar to learn about the two agroforestry systems we have in place and to visit a functioning composting area run by our very own Carlos Castillo – second right hand man to the garden, […]
