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...

Don Simón has finally become a reality. After the planting of the first trees in 2017, we have had our first major cosecha and processed the beans, and our graphic design department has come up with...

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...

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...

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...

We want to protect our stream banks and also capture nutrients that either pass through the soil or pass over the soil, due to run-off, before nutrients go into the stream. This stops eutrophication...

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...

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...

There are 115 recently planted coffee trees in our Colegio Bolivar Garden, which we are going to process to make Colegio Bolivar coffee. These coffee trees have not yet started to bear any fruit, but...