The Colegio Bolivar Sustainability leader, Jessica Gomez, a long-time friend and supporter of the Bolivar Garden approached me at the start of the year asking if the Agricultural Plant Science class and Bolivar Garden would represent the school at the COP 16 international conference on biodiversity held in Cali during the outreach presentations to the […]
The garden once again grows and produces food and vegetables for our community. A couple of racemes of bananas were taken to Chris´s cafeteria for our school workers where they were used for desert and in San Cocho! These were the first bananas produced from our cacao plot! Yuca that was planted last year by […]
Following the heartbreaking discovery that we have been attacked by broca, Hypothenemus hampei, we decided to quantify the extent of the damage and use it as a great learning opportunity. Students were asked to collect coffee and take samples of 100 beans and count the number that were affected by Broca. A startlingly high percentage […]
New connections through Bolivar Garden Saturdays A new year and new opportunities to work with other schools and colleagues. Professor Lionel Manrique of Colegio Philadelphia reached out to me after he had heard about the work that we are doing in the Bolivar Garden. He was invited to come to a Bolivar Garden Saturday […]
After two years of presenting projects to symposiums and returning back after pandemic it was decided that students needed to get back to writing scientific monographs and honing their research skills, learning about plant ecology and biology and how to manage their selected crop. Students have chosen a wide range of plants from orchids Saman […]
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