Welcome to the new Bolivar Garden Blog where you can find out
what we are doing in the Bolivar Garden and Agricultural Plant Science.


































































































The greenhouse has been used to produce a good number of herbs, sage, basil, ponte alerio, fruit, tomatoes, and vegetables, maize, radishes and garlic chives, but has been shadowed by tree growth and...
During the last class of the week the agric students and I mananged to finish the planting of the 64 cacao trees in the plot! After 190 hours of human endeavour, from reassigning holes, mixing soil...
A wet day was expected for this years 5K race – we have a weather station and can predict the weather! We had a stand offering Don Simón Coffee to participants which went down really well...
Early on a bright and sunny day a bunch of volunteers, students, teachers, parents, social service students (and some in detention) came to the Bolivar Garden to plant our 64 clones! The day started...
On the 28th of March Angel and I went with the school truck to Miranda, Cauca to the Fedecacao Research Centre to pick up the clones that we had ordered two years ago. It took us an hour...
On another bright and sunny day the location of the Davis Vantage Pro 2 Weather station was discussed with input from maintenance, IT, STEAM, Sustainability groups and the science department. After...
In 2022 we were on the cusp of finally purchasing a meterological weather station when unfortunately, the school was hit by a huge cyberattack and the plan had to be put on hold. Last year a census of...
After almost two years we are finally ready to receive and plant our cacao plants. This has meant in the last two weeks we have been re-assessing and mapping out where plants will be planted. ...
Our terrace has been fallow for a year during the time we have been working on our cacao plantation. Now we plan to enlarge, improve and enclose the terrace. The first steps were to mark out the...
