After two years of presenting projects to symposiums and returning back after pandemic it was decided that students needed to get back to writing scientific monographs and honing their research skills, learning about plant ecology and biology and how to manage their selected crop. Students have chosen a wide range of plants from orchids Saman […]
Manuela Borerro and Sara Escobar raised the standard of senior projects at Colegio Bolivar this year conducting innovative and original research on palma areca. The title of their project was “Measurement of Chrysalidocarpus lutescens H.Wendl. for the creation of allometric equations to estimate carbon content and CO2 equivalency”. This senior project began the during their […]
After having worked so hard on presentations for the IXth International Symposium students were glad to get back to the garden and see that the Banana plants that they had planted earlier in the year were growing well in the cacao plot. In October the school had its Accreditation Visit from Cognia. Students took the […]
This September an international symposium is being held at University del Valle, sede Melendez from September. Students were asked if they would like to go and present work that they have been doing in the garden. All agreed that this would be a good idea. For the past four weeks since the start of the […]
Our right hand man and amazing custodian, Hugo Guerrero, suggested that we could use the terrace to plant yuca, Casava mantioc. Hugo got “seedlings” and planted them just as we were finishing off for the school year. Hugo has done a great job and we are leaving the yuca to grow in the school terrace […]
Getting the greenhouse ready for planting for over the summer months has been hard work and has involved all students. Beds have had to cleared and weeded, and sowed with new vegetables. Unfortunately, our nice big beef tomatoes were attacked by maize worm – an effect of growing maize with tomato – something we shall […]
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 […]
Following the ratification of the project, students have been tasked with measuring the location suggested, and seeing where cacao seedlings will be planted. It was discussed with students how to best minimize soil erosion and nutrient run-off and so as with the coffee plantation, students are using basic methods using an A-Frame to determine the […]
Data has been collected by students during many sessions of the class. It has been pleasing to see how students have taken to this task, taking responsibility to complete it and ensure the map is up to date with accurate and correct data. First results indicate that we have over 100 different types of tree […]
Agrosavia in Palmira has a large collection of different clonal types of Theobroma cacao, the scientific name for cacao. On the 29th March, all agriculture students together with myself and Mrs Katie Neal visited Agrosavia to learn about cacao, see their collection and visit their arboretum of tropical fruit trees. The day started with us […]
