5K verde race – 2026 – Don Simón chocolate and irrigation

On the 15th March the Don Simón Club once again supported the 5K race, this time providing hot chocolate for race competitors. On the day members of the club learnt how to make hot chocolate in milk and water, making five liters of the delicious liquid for people to drink.   Positive reviews of the […]

More bananas using the Grandmother, Mother and Daughter system.

In agriculture class today my students and I planted six new banana plants in the cacao plot. Essentially, these will grow to provide more banana fruit but also to provide shade for the growing cacao trees, whilst also diversifying the garden. One of these new banana plant´s suckers  was cut from an existing banana plant, […]

Three sisters – maize, beans and pumpkins

With our newly established Terrace my students and I set about the task of making the terrace ready to grow the three sisters, maize, beans and pumpkins, an indigenous method to grow crops together. Firstly, we had to calculate how many mounds we would put in the terrace. At a spacing of 0.5m from the […]

The New Terrace – completed!

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 […]

BGVs watering over the vacations.

A group of nine volunteers from the school community and members of the Bolivar Garden agreed to help water the cacao plot and new terrace during our hot Christmas vacations. From the 15th December till the 6th January these volunteers came and used a newly purchased tube system – courtesy of the Don Simon Coffee […]

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