Today is International Coffee Day which we celebrated with the Don Simón Coffee Club setting out our ideas and projects for the year and taking a group photo – it is one of the biggest High School clubs and I am immensely proud of them.
This week has been by far one of the busiest yet most rewarding weeks at Colegio Bolivar, especially as we in the science department have been at the forefront of Sustainability activities for our Sustainability Week. The week began with the opportunity to bring in Tomato expert David Bravo, his wife and Luna their dog […]
This is our first harvest of Don Simón in the new academic year, and my agricultural science students are incredibly enthused! My agric students just went down to the garden and came back with 10.8 kg of freshly picked coffee, and there is more to collect – higher up in the tall trees. Getting my […]
With the main structure now finished all that is left to do is to add netting to the sides and to the roof, cement the netting in, so that animals cannot get into the terrace and add a door. The school´s gardeners helped with putting up the netting and adding cement to the […]
We have just got back after the summer hiatus and have visited the garden with my new, huge, group of Agricultural Plant Science Elective students – 21 of them! One of the biggest classes I have ever had. The garden is a bit overgrown after the summer. The terrace needs to be finished so that […]
