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...

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.  ...

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...

Once posts were in place and checked, Gustavo Ledesma, myself and a couple of BGVs set about the task of putting up our roof, made of PVC! This was completed in one Saturday morning.  Placing of the...

With the posts in place and the majority of the terrace levelled, Diego Arias and Carlos Castillo checked that all was going well.  When all posts were securely put in place, a friend of the garden...

We are now ready to level the terrace and begin the process of putting posts into place. We are planning on using 18 plastic posts, digging holes and securing them with cement. This process was helped...

In order to re-build the terrace we first had to breakdown what we already had. That meant dismantling the existing rock wall, weeding by digging weeds into the earth and levelling the terrace. This...

Our Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station has a suite of sensors that are used to measure and calculate a variety of climate data. The sensors incorporated into the weather station are as follows: UV...

We now have a really expensive and highly technological piece of equipment at the school – our Davis Vantage Pro 2 Weather Station. In this post I am going to inform you about the weather...