During the past year the Bolivar Garden and the associated agricultural science elective have gone from strength to strength. Last year we had our first produce, some cobs of corn, that we passed onto the school workers cafeteria. The Bolivar garden weekends, run each month, have been attended by parents and relatives of our students, […]
On the 26th September ten agricultural students and one agricultural teacher got on a Colegio Bolivar School bus and travelled to Palmira to an agricultural research station. CORPOICA (Corporacion Colombiana de Investigacion Agropecuaria) sede Palmira is the agricultural research station funded by the Colombian Government, based in Valle Del Cauca. CORPOICA has sites 19 sites […]
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 […]
After the summer recess my new students and I came back to see that the school´s iguanas had had a great feast on our planted pumpkins and that the two terraces that had been developed before the summer had become overgrown with grass. The first task was to get rid of the grass. This was […]
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 […]
March to June were the last months of the first year of the Agric Science course. The students were working hard on their monograph projects (which have been uploaded to the Monograph Page on this blog) to complete them, with some excellent pieces of high quality research. In the garden the students worked hard on […]
We continue to work on Terrace number 1, our 18 m flat terrace. The wall has been finished though we still need to pack the remaining four meters of stone wall with grass sod to compact it. The path is near completion, thanks to the hard work principally by Carolina, Valentina, Juan David and Juan […]
One of the most important aspects of the agriculture course is inclucate the idea of reducing consumption, reusing equipment and resources and recycling materials where possible. When I came into the Limoncillo carpart at the start of the year I noticed a lot of used wood, planks in cement filled plastic bottles and logs cut […]
The Top Path project is being managed by Manuela, Nick Nasser and Martin. They are in charge of constructing a path that will run for about 15 m from the first to the second tank and to the compost bins: it will measure about 1m in width. To date they have staked out the path after […]
As the garden is on a steep slope, between 22 and 35°, we have to utilize some basic ideas to protect the soil yet make use of the land. We first measured the slope at different points to determine the need for terracing (see the featured image). We built A-frames in class, calibrated them in […]
