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 […]
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 […]
Diego Narvaez produces all our Bolivar Garden notices. Time to give the amazing man some credit. Thank you so much Diego!
In today´s Bolivar Garden activity we made our first pruning of our Catimore Coffee trees. This was led by our friend and mentor, Dr Phillipe Vaast of CIRAD. He taught the volunteers how to select where the trees have to be cut, and led a practial session of how to do this with our volunteers. […]
Getting the greenhouse ready for planting for over the summer months has been hard work and has involved all students. Beds have had to cleared and weeded, and sowed with new vegetables. Unfortunately, our nice big beef tomatoes were attacked by maize worm – an effect of growing maize with tomato – something we shall […]
During the Bolivar Garden Saturday, we were pleased to host Drs Vaast and Souniga, experts in coffee and cacao to the school garden to informally assess the work that we are doing and to give advice on what should be our next steps. The location of the cacao plot were discussed, as was the spacing […]
Yep – we made a name change from Bolivar Garden Weekends to Bolivar Garden Saturdays, but these are still going strong. It took us a while to get back on our feet after the pandemic but we did so with a few sessions of BGS. As usual volunteers came together, enjoyed the time in the […]
It has always been a goal of the Bolivar Garden Project to include members from the wider Bolivar Community, not just students, teachers, maintenance, and administration but to other school staff, the wider students community (K-12), parents, alumni, The Board and friends of the school. For this reason a series of Bolivar Garden Weekends has […]
We are delighted to invite members of the school community to come and work with us in the Bolivar Garden. The dates of the Saturday sessions are as follows: 16th September 2017 21st October 2017 18th November 2017 16th December 2017 20th January 2018 10th February 2018 10th March 2018 14th April 2018 12th May […]
