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 […]
Before planning beds students were asked to group different plant crops according to the families in which they existed. Primarily these were the Brassicas -Cruciferae (cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale, radish, swede and turnip); Legumes – Leguminosae (pea, beans, peanuts); Potato – Solanaceae (potato, tomato, aubergine and peppers); Umbellifers – Umbelliferae (carrot, parsnip, parsley, celery, […]
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 […]
Digging through the second terrace has been hard work due to the hard nature of the ground – it has been very dry. Developments in the second terrace. Before and after (top to bottom). You can see piles of soil transferred from the second to the first terrace waiting to be spread out and […]
Work on the top path is in the hands of Christian, Andres “Billy” Felipe, Juan Mario and Nick N. They have been using the cement filled bottles with wooden planks (that were salvaged from the Limoncillo Car Park) to form a foundation for wooden planks that are interlinked in a herringbone fashion. This is hard […]
Though a good deal of work was done early on to construct the staircase the agric students were all involved in digging out terrace #1 and constructing the stone wall. Now with smaller groups working on the terrace path and terrace #2, and with the addition of a saw, Laura, Manuela and Gabriel have secured […]
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 […]
