Our right hand man and amazing custodian, Hugo Guerrero, suggested that we could use the terrace to plant yuca, Casava mantioc. Hugo got “seedlings” and planted them just as we were finishing off for the school year. Hugo has done a great job and we are leaving the yuca to grow in the school terrace […]
A NEW YEAR: Year 7 2022-23 This year is the Diamond Jubilee of the school, and quite rightly the Bolivar Garden wants to celebrate this in its own special way. As well as educating 21 students this year in the agricultural plant science elective two large projects are in the pipe-line: the first is to […]
After a year of laying the terrace fallow, we were welcomed back to a vegetated terrace, with lots of grass binding the ground, a compacted soil structure, and a patch of overgrown citronella. The students were duly assigned to specific jobs: digging the terrace, sifting stones, breaking up the soil structure and removing the citronella […]
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. […]
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 […]
After the summer recess my new students and I came back to see that the school´s iguanas had had a great feast on our planted pumpkins and that the two terraces that had been developed before the summer had become overgrown with grass. The first task was to get rid of the grass. This was […]
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 […]
We continue to work on Terrace number 1, our 18 m flat terrace. The wall has been finished though we still need to pack the remaining four meters of stone wall with grass sod to compact it. The path is near completion, thanks to the hard work principally by Carolina, Valentina, Juan David and Juan […]
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 […]
