Projects
July 2-30, 2009 This time of the year, the dry season, requires maintenance for the revegetation sites that were planted this past rainy season as well as producing new trees in the greenhouse for next year’s sites. We’ve been watering sites on a regular basis. Recently I met with our friend Chino and he now helps out with two places that don’t have water access […]
July 2 & July 29, 2009 In one long epic day we drove in to the Planet Drum land with a load of Bamboo (Caña) to begin the first structure for the Bioregional Sustainability Institute: a tent platform. This was the first trip with a motorized vehicle. Chino (the one and only, the incredible) drove his full-sized diesel truck. Along the way we cleared eroding […]
Paola’s Report #3 Bioregionalism EducationSummer Session, 2009 Week of July 20, 2009 – English Photos below It was 3:05 pm as I pedaled my bike hurriedly towards the park. All I need to do to find my class is to look for the big cluster of light blue T-shirts. There is a usual spot we meet at, but the kids seem to have slowly gravitated […]
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 […]