During the Christmas vacation BGVs kindly came to school to water our Bolivar Garden. This meant that no more cacao trees died. Unfortunately, during the summer months, with no way to water the plants consistently about 20 of the 64 cacao plants that we planted perished. However, coming back to school we re-assessed the cacao […]
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 […]
The garden once again grows and produces food and vegetables for our community. A couple of racemes of bananas were taken to Chris´s cafeteria for our school workers where they were used for desert and in San Cocho! These were the first bananas produced from our cacao plot! Yuca that was planted last year by […]
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 […]
During the first Bolivar Garden Saturday of the new school year a lot of time was spent cleaning and pruning up our plantains and harvesting heirloom carrots by student volunteers!
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 […]
The maize and tomatoes are both doing really well. Just look and see Thomas in the picture with the plants. We have also added a bed of garlic chives, basil, and some French beans.
In August 2019, the first official harvest of coffee occurred in the Bolivar Garden, collected by Hugo Guerrero, our garden custodian. Since then we have had four more harvests from the 113 coffee trees in the Bolivar Garden. On average each tree produces around 10-40 beans of coffee, which actually are not bean, but the […]
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, […]
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