Projects
Ramon’s Report #4 Bioregionalism EducationSummer Session, 2009 July 1 & 3, 2009 – English(Click here for Spanish/Español) Photos below This Wednesday, as always, Franco was the first to arrive to class. Once everyone was there, we played a game called EL BUM. For every multiple of 3, you have to say the word “bum;” for example: 1 2 bum 4 5 bum and so forth. […]
June 15-30, 2009 Our volunteer force is a powerhouse. The usual Planet Drum house more or less doubled in numbers with the special 3-week visit or our friends from Saga Educators, coincidentally based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Two volunteers of theirs from last summer have returned with a crew of five strong high-schoolers to help with the revegetation project. Two volunteers […]
Ramon’s Report #3 Bioregionalism EducationSummer Session, 2009 June 24 & 26, 2009 – English(Click here for Spanish/Español) Photos below We started a new week and this day we had to read and analyze a new theme called Land Ecosystem. As usual, the first to arrive was Franco and Luis David; coincidentally the two who cause the most trouble throughout class. One by one the students […]
Paola’s Report #2 Bioregionalism EducationSummer Session, 2009 June 11 & 12, 2009 – English(Click here for Spanish/Español) Photos below This week, instead of 18 kids, I had class with only ten, which felt significantly mellower. Although I knew it was relieving, without the usual boisterous bubble that we interact in, I felt a bit of an emptiness, surprisingly. The kids explained to me that their […]
May 27-June 12, 2009 Time has been divided between watering revegetation sites and tree production in the greenhouse. The seeds beds continued to pump out Jaboncillo, Seca, Guachepeli and Ceibo saplings. It is an endless cycle of bottle collecting, soil mixing and transplanting. Lots of times we dug up trees from the seedbeds, which would turn the soil, subsequently new seeds would begin to germinate, requiring further […]
Ramon’s Report #2 Bioregionalism EducationSummer Session, 2009 May 27 & 29, 2009 – English(Click here for Spanish/Español) Photos below We started class at our usual time of 3:30. On this day, our main objective was to understand the steps we must take to protect our bioregion. The kids were divided into three groups to review and analyze the main topics. Each group had to choose […]
May 6-26, 2009 We continued to ride out the previous period of rains for a bit, accomplishing lots of work in the greenhouse and visiting sites from previous years to check in on and clear the weeds off of the trees. But a lack of further precipitation and prevailing dry season weather eventually led us to resume watering. Among the revegetation sites that were revisited […]
Paola’s Report #1 Bioregionalism EducationSummer Session, 2009 May 20 & 22, 2009 – English(Click here for Spanish/Español) Photos below I was greeted with an immediate huddle around me when I arrived for class at the park; the usual “Senorita! Senorita!” followed by a ton of questions about what we will be doing and where will we be going. It’s a bit of a chaotic manner to […]
Aaron KasePlanet Drum Volunteerfrom Feb-May, 2009 May 22, 2009 It seemed like no one ever wanted to leave. Volunteers talked about leaving Thursday or Friday, but always pushed their departure date back through the weekend, to Monday or Tuesday. Nicole was planning to stay for one week and stayed for three. The Swedish people also planned to stay for a week and stayed on for […]
Fabiola’s Report #1 Bioregionalism EducationSummer Session, 2009 May 12, 2009 – English (Click here for Spanish/Español) Photos below May 12 Objective: We started by reading an article by Peter Berg, the founder of Planet Drum; and learned about the main objectives of a bioregion and the different themes within each. For example, farming shrimp in the estuary and how it has affected the estuary’s ecosystem as […]