I am so so proud of my Don Simón Coffee Club volunteers – all students with an interest in selling our wonderful coffee. Yesterday at the COLEGIO BOLIVAR FARMER´s MARKET , we sold ALL our coffee! The DON SIMÓN crew were fantastic at explaining the two types of coffee that we sold to our wider community […]
Another great day where the garden became a centre of inclusion and fun, a place for people to come together and this time in the name of Sports Day to get some good cardio exercise into the bargain! This year a new sport, CCC (Competitive Coffee Collecting) was tried at Colegio Bolivar and the results […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 having worked so hard on presentations for the IXth International Symposium students were glad to get back to the garden and see that the Banana plants that they had planted earlier in the year were growing well in the cacao plot. In October the school had its Accreditation Visit from Cognia. Students took the […]
This September an international symposium is being held at University del Valle, sede Melendez from September. Students were asked if they would like to go and present work that they have been doing in the garden. All agreed that this would be a good idea. For the past four weeks since the start of the […]
We start the new school year revisiting our agroforestry plot which is now in its 6th year. The plot has matured, there is a lot of shade from our plantains and other trees. Nitrogen fixing trees, mata raton, are growing well and are regularly pruned to give nutrients directly to the coffee through their organic […]
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