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...

El día comenzó cuando salimos, los estudiantes de agricultura y pre-AP biologia, de la escuela alrededor de las 5:30 a las 6:00 de la mañana. Llegamos al Oeste, recogimos a otros compañeros y...

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...

During the past year the Bolivar Garden and the associated agricultural science elective have gone from strength to strength. Last year we had our first produce, some cobs of corn, that we passed onto...

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...

During our last lesson in the garden, whilst we were preparing beds, one of the agricultural students was adamant that a rock should be removed from the second terrace before the bed could properly be...

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...

Dr Nagy asked me at the start of this academic year if  I was indeed going to consider growing coffee as a crop.  I thought this an excellent idea and so brought some seeds from Finca El Manatial, in...