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 […]
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 […]
After the success of planting coffee in the Bolivar garden, we are hopeful for this next project that is coming. As an assignment for agriculture, each student has to work on writing a monograph about a plant we were interested in. In my case, I chose to write about Phaseolus vulgaris, which is the common […]
After the main jobs such as, fixing the terraces, getting rid of the undergrowth in the coffee plants and the hotbeds, were done, we proceeded to work on the bean plantations. As always we tried to use the materials that we had at hand, in this case we used a wall of bamboo and tin, […]
