One of the founding purposes of the Bolivar Garden was to build community and break down barriers in our school, through vocational learning – learning from others through a hands-on approach...

We have planted the first items in the greenhouse. Students decided to try and grow tomatoes, corn and cucumbers. These were planted from seed in the case of tomatoes, heirloom seeds, and seedlings of...

After completing the build of the greenhouse together with attachment of the netting, the movement of the beds and the painting of the beds in Rainbow colours, we had to get enough soil and organic...

It has been a full academic year and we have still not completely finished the greenhouse project – but we are very very close. The greenhouse almost completed. The netting was pretty much in...

Yep – we made a name change from Bolivar Garden Weekends to Bolivar Garden Saturdays, but these are still going strong. It took us a while to get back on our feet after the pandemic but we did...

After a year of gardening knowledge, research on almonds, and actual hardcore gardening, I have taken with me the greatest of gifts. I have never been a particularly emotionally stable person. Before...

We have kindly been donated wood to produce beds for the greenhouse from two parents of students of Colegio Bolivar: Jose Delgado and Jaime Escobar. Thank you very much.     With this...

After a year of laying the terrace fallow, we were welcomed back to a vegetated terrace, with lots of grass binding the ground, a compacted soil structure, and a patch of overgrown citronella. The...

We are finally beginning to see progress on the construction of the greenhouse. The structure is finally up! and this was done quickly. After our last meeting the funding for the Greenhouse Project...