The latest Bolivar Garden was a huge success with over 22 students from middle school social service coming along with their teacher and the middle school principal, Mr Rob Millet. Some volunteers came as well as some High School students in detention. In the three hours we worked we did a lot. We pruned a […]
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 […]
Alejandro Ortiz and Juan Estaban Martin conducted research on intercropping plants, Arachis pintoi, (Mani forerjero), Zingiber officinale (Ginger) and Curcuma Longa (Tumeric) with bananas rather than the normal method of using bananas as an intercrop with other species: “How does the intercropping of a mono-crop of banana Musa sp. L benefit the crop: soil quality, […]
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 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, […]
