On the 15th March the Don Simón Club once again supported the 5K race, this time providing hot chocolate for race competitors. On the day members of the club learnt how to make hot chocolate in milk and water, making five liters of the delicious liquid for people to drink. Positive reviews of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
A wet day was expected for this years 5K race – we have a weather station and can predict the weather! We had a stand offering Don Simón Coffee to participants which went down really well. People could see live data from the weather station and were taken to the garden and showed around the […]
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 […]
Following the visit to Agrosavia in the previous academic year, and staking out the cacao plot it has been determined that we will have space to plant 64 cacao trees. The current agricultural plant science students were asked whether they wanted to maximise production of cacao, or maximise quality of production. Discussions were had as […]
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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