In 2020, two students, Sara Escobar and Melissa Londoño, were tasked with coming up with an idea for the 8th grade Sustainability Shark Tank competition. They approached me and asked me what sort of ideas might work. They wanted to work on something to do with the garden and suggested vertical gardens and recycling. I […]
We want to protect our stream banks and also capture nutrients that either pass through the soil or pass over the soil, due to run-off, before nutrients go into the stream. This stops eutrophication, the addition of nutrients to streams, rivers, waterways that can lead to an increase in algae forming. Whilst we do not […]
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 […]
Dr Nagy asked me at the start of this academic year if I was indeed going to consider growing coffee as a crop. I thought this an excellent idea and so brought some seeds from Finca El Manatial, in Chicoral to show students the process of starting a mini coffee plantation. Students were shown the […]
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, […]
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 […]
After determining the location and size of the first terrace -it is located close the shed and entrance to the garden, running parallel to the stream – a dry-stone wall was built by all students. G and Nick working on measuring the first terrace Valentina, Carolina, Gabriel, Juana, Laura and Juan David digging the […]
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 […]
The compost area will be central to one of the major themes of the garden. That is, to recyle and re-use resources. The school produces a lot of organic waste, in terms of food waste and paper/carton waste that can be recycled for nutrients to help plants grow. Four compost areas will be constructed. Andres […]
