In agriculture class today my students and I planted six new banana plants in the cacao plot. Essentially, these will grow to provide more banana fruit but also to provide shade for the growing cacao trees, whilst also diversifying the garden. One of these new banana plant´s suckers was cut from an existing banana plant, […]
We have recently been involved in the renovation of the greenhouse – this is now an ongoing project. This began with a visit to the school through the auspices of the Sustainability Week organized by Jessica Gomez. David Bravo visited the school and gave a wonderful talk about how to grow tomatoes, visited our greenhouse […]
As part of the Agricultural Plant Science course I have always tried to take students on a field trip; I believe it important to expose students to real-life operations of what we are learning and practicing in my agricultural class, especially considering the importance that agriculture still has in Valle del Cauca and Colombia. I […]
Finally as part of sustainability week I worked with all the 7th grade students explaining them how our Davis Weather Station works, seeing it in action and analysing the raw data that it collects. I linked this to an in-progress Walter Leith Climate Diagram that was used to explain how climate data could be shown, […]
Our terrace has been fallow for a year during the time we have been working on our cacao plantation. Now we plan to enlarge, improve and enclose the terrace. The first steps were to mark out the terrace and determine its new size. With students and volunteers we delimited the boundaries of the new […]
