During the Bolivar Garden Saturday, we were pleased to host Drs Vaast and Souniga, experts in coffee and cacao to the school garden to informally assess the work that we are doing and to give advice on what should be our next steps.

The location of the cacao plot were discussed, as was the spacing of trees and the need to grow a cover shade crop, bananas so that the cacao trees are not photosynthetically over stressed.

Existing cacao trees were pruned back: volunteers were taught how best to do this, and advice was given as to the best method to manage our existing plantains, using the Grandmother, mother and daughter analogy.

Also, a lot of coffee was collected on this day, and will be roasted and sold at the upcoming Farmer´s Market.