After many months work with the wonderful Stefania “Stefi” Ruiz, the school´s webmaster, we have finally updated the blog to make it more accessible and fun to read about all our exploits. It now features a new carousel of photos, individual links to monographs written in previous years, categorization of blog posts and links to […]
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 […]
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 […]
A fun time was had on the last day of the year with Agriculture students and teachers sharing and cooking food in the garden. I pretty much failed at starting the fire leaving this in the hands of my students who quickly got it going! Merry Christmas and onwards to 2025!
The Colegio Bolivar Sustainability leader, Jessica Gomez, a long-time friend and supporter of the Bolivar Garden approached me at the start of the year asking if the Agricultural Plant Science class and Bolivar Garden would represent the school at the COP 16 international conference on biodiversity held in Cali during the outreach presentations to the […]
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. […]
One of the founding purposes of the Bolivar Garden was to build community and break down barriers in our school, through vocational learning – learning from others through a hands-on approach. Since the first ideas of a Bolivar Garden started in 2015 it has been imperative that we have never lost site of this goal. […]
We have planted the first items in the greenhouse. Students decided to try and grow tomatoes, corn and cucumbers. These were planted from seed in the case of tomatoes, heirloom seeds, and seedlings of maize that were germinated in the lab. These seedlings were planted at 15 cm spacing for maize in three rows in […]
It has been a full academic year and we have still not completely finished the greenhouse project – but we are very very close. The greenhouse almost completed. The netting was pretty much in place and only some small areas needed to be fixed! With the structure up and some beds in the greenhouse, we […]
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 […]
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