[:en]Nuevas Conexiones a través de Jardín Bolívar Sábados[:]

New connections through Bolivar Garden Saturdays A new year and new opportunities to work with other schools and colleagues.   Professor Lionel Manrique of Colegio Philadelphia reached out to me after he had heard about the work that we are doing in the Bolivar Garden. He was invited to come to a Bolivar Garden Saturday […]

A Colegio Bolivar Plant Inventory

In order to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Colegio Bolivar the agricultural plant science students are going to undertake an inventory exercise of the college campus.  It is hoped that this will be the first step in determining the carbon footprint of the campus, by determining the amount of carbon that is currently stored and […]

Visit to see Cacao collection and learn more about Cacao with Agrosavia

Agrosavia in Palmira has a large collection of different clonal types of Theobroma cacao, the scientific name for cacao. On the 29th March, all agriculture students together with myself and Mrs Katie Neal visited Agrosavia to learn about cacao, see their collection and visit their arboretum of tropical fruit trees. The day started with us […]

Local trees to shade our coffee – Mata Raton – Alejandra Guasto

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 […]

Corpoica Visit: 26th September 2017

On the 26th September ten agricultural students and one agricultural teacher got on a Colegio Bolivar School bus and travelled to Palmira to an agricultural research station. CORPOICA (Corporacion Colombiana de Investigacion Agropecuaria) sede Palmira is the agricultural research station funded by the Colombian Government, based in Valle Del Cauca. CORPOICA has sites 19 sites […]

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