Welcome to the new school year – 25 August 2025

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 […]

[:en]COP 16: an opportunity to spread the word of the Bolivar Garden and Don Simón Coffee[:]

The Colegio Bolivar Sustainability leader, Jessica Gomez, a long-time friend and supporter of the Bolivar Garden approached me at the start of the year asking if the Agricultural Plant Science class and Bolivar Garden would represent the school at the COP 16 international conference on biodiversity held in Cali during the outreach presentations to the […]

The end of the beginning – the last few months

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 […]

A New Year – 2017

We have started back in earnest, returning to a slightly overgrown hillside garden.  Work continues on our three main construction projects: the first terrace, the stairway, and the path at the top of the garden linking the two water tanks and the compost areas. All the students are continuing writing their monographs. Two chapters down, […]

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