In today´s Bolivar Garden activity we made our first pruning of our Catimore Coffee trees.  This was led by our friend and mentor, Dr Phillipe Vaast of CIRAD. He taught the volunteers how to select...

Following the visit to Agrosavia in the previous academic year, and staking out the cacao plot it has been determined that we will have space to plant 64 cacao trees.  The current agricultural plant...

After having worked so hard on presentations for the IXth International Symposium students were glad to get back to the garden and see that the Banana plants that they had planted earlier in the year...

In order to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Colegio Bolivar the agricultural plant science students are going to undertake an inventory exercise of the college campus.  It is hoped that this will be...

We have just spent a Saturday with volunteers of the garden and students from social service working on digging holes that were staked out by agricultural plant science students. This hard work is...

This September an international symposium is being held at University del Valle, sede Melendez from September. Students were asked if they would like to go and present work that they have been doing...

During the first Bolivar Garden Saturday of the new school year a lot of time was spent cleaning and pruning up our plantains and harvesting heirloom carrots by student volunteers!...

We start the new school year revisiting our agroforestry plot which is now in its 6th year. The plot has matured, there is a lot of shade from our plantains and other trees.  Nitrogen fixing trees...

Our right hand man and amazing custodian, Hugo Guerrero, suggested that we could use the terrace to plant yuca, Casava mantioc. Hugo got “seedlings” and planted them just as we were finishing off for...