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 […]
After a year of gardening knowledge, research on almonds, and actual hardcore gardening, I have taken with me the greatest of gifts. I have never been a particularly emotionally stable person. Before I was old enough to actually join the elective, I’d broken my pinky toe so many times, I did garden work instead of […]
We have multiple projects going on in the garden this year. Not only have we continued our coffee harvesting but we have also begun a new project involving different types of sweet potato. Obviously, the fact that we have all this amount of new plants in the garden means that we should take extra care […]
After the success of planting coffee in the Bolivar garden, we are hopeful for this next project that is coming. As an assignment for agriculture, each student has to work on writing a monograph about a plant we were interested in. In my case, I chose to write about Phaseolus vulgaris, which is the common […]
After the coffee has had enough time to harvest we have to pick them off the plant. We do this by looking at the color of the shell of the coffee, if it’s anywhere from a vibrant red to a yellowish tinted red; then, the coffee is ready to be picked from the plant. […]
In August 2019, the first official harvest of coffee occurred in the Bolivar Garden, collected by Hugo Guerrero, our garden custodian. Since then we have had four more harvests from the 113 coffee trees in the Bolivar Garden. On average each tree produces around 10-40 beans of coffee, which actually are not bean, but the […]
In the past few months, the garden has been shaping up nicely, having coffee, garlic, ornamental tomatoes, carrots, citronella, papaya, plantain, and other plants that this class has planted. However, there was an extreme need for shade along all of the garden, where plants were receiving constant sun. For this reason, the class previously incorporated […]
The planting, growth and maintenance of the CB garden coffee trees have been a long and rigorous project. Having started last school year, me and the old Agric class began the process by germinating all the coffee seeds provided by our very own Dr.Waliszewski. We selected the best of the seeds, about 200. We placed […]
After the main jobs such as, fixing the terraces, getting rid of the undergrowth in the coffee plants and the hotbeds, were done, we proceeded to work on the bean plantations. As always we tried to use the materials that we had at hand, in this case we used a wall of bamboo and tin, […]
When we first arrived to the class and went down to the garden for the first time, the terraces were well constructed but needed maintenance after the summer recess. The majority of the rocks had already been removed by the previous class, but we found that there were many small rocks still in the soil. […]
