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what we are doing in the Bolivar Garden and Agricultural Plant Science.

Field trip to Industrias Alimenticias El Trebol S.A.

As part of the Agricultural Plant Science course I have always tried to take students on a field trip; I believe it important to expose students to real-life operations of what we are learning and...

Don Simon Sales

I am so so proud of my Don Simón Coffee Club volunteers – all students with an interest in selling our wonderful coffee. Yesterday at the COLEGIO BOLIVAR FARMER´s MARKET , we sold ALL our...

Sports day and competitive coffee picking

Another great day where the garden became a centre of inclusion and fun, a place for people to come together and this time in the name of Sports Day to get some good cardio exercise into the bargain!...

Sustainability week Part 3 – Weather stations and Walter Leith Climate Diagrams

Finally as part of sustainability week I worked with all the 7th grade students explaining them how our Davis Weather Station works, seeing it in action and analysing the raw data that it collects. I...

Sustainability week Part 2

Today is International Coffee Day which we celebrated with the Don Simón Coffee Club setting out our ideas and projects for the year and taking a group photo – it is one of the biggest High...

Sustainability Week 2025 – part one

This week has been by far one of the busiest yet most rewarding weeks at Colegio Bolivar, especially as we in the science department have been at the forefront of Sustainability activities for our...

First harvest of the year

This is our first harvest of Don Simón in the new academic year, and my agricultural science students are incredibly enthused! My agric students just went down to the garden and came back with 10.8 kg...

Phase five – cement, netting and a door

With the main structure now finished all that is left to do is to add netting to the sides and to the roof, cement the netting in, so that animals cannot get into the terrace and add a door.  ...

Welcome to the new school year – 25 August 2025

We have just got back after the summer hiatus and have visited the garden with my new, huge, group of Agricultural Plant Science Elective students – 21 of them! One of the biggest classes I have...
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