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

Planting of our Cacao

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...

Getting our clones with an Angel

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...

Setting up the weather station

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...

Our Weather station has arrived

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...

Cacao clones ready for planting – finalizing the cacao plot

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.  ...

A new Beginning: rebuilding of the terrace

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...

Germinating new seedlings

With a new batch of seedlings bought from Don Simón funds, students set about germinating seedlings of many types of brassicas (cabbages, kohl rabi, brussel sprouts and kale) and carrots, scorzona...

A shout out to Diego Narvaez – our artistic collaborator

Diego Narvaez produces all our Bolivar Garden notices. Time to give the amazing man some credit. Thank you so much Diego!      ...

It’s a Barbie World – BBQ that is!

A fun time was had on the last day of the year with Agriculture students and teachers sharing and cooking food in the garden. I pretty much failed at starting the fire leaving this in the hands of my...
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