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Adjuntas - View from Casa Pueblo’s Solar Radio Transmitter
The view from Casa Pueblo’s solar powered radio transmitter site. This will also be the site of a five-acre sustainable coffee production site.
Art Amid Destruction
Mural of a jíbaro and door painted as a Puerto Rican flag, on a destroyed and abandoned structure.
Art Packs
Art packs from Hudson Valley Seed Company donations were set aside specifically for schools. The art packs would allow those teaching agriculture to integrate the arts into their activities and lessons. This is essential because art and music classes…
Arugula
A bed of arugula growing in a raised bed at Plenitud PR.
Bean Seeds
Don Luis Soto of Finca Mi Casa showing us some of the first seeds ready for saving have been planted immediately after the passing of Hurricane Maria.
Bean Seeds Sprouting at Finca Mi Casa
Photo sent to Raíces Crew Members by the Seed Huntress, Sefra Alexander upon visiting Don Luis Soto at Finca Mi Casa on her hunt to preserve seed and exchange knowledge of seed saving. This was a patch of bean seeds planted by Don Luis sand Raíces…
Biodiverse Community Farming
Part of the service learning experience at Plenitud PR is hands-on group farming. Done in community with residents of Plenitud and local volunteers from Las Marías, interns and students, a large group working together can get a few large tasks done…
Bri Treppeda at Plenitud PR
Bri Treppeda was an intern at Plenitud PR when Raíces visited the farm in January 2018. Here she is harvesting patchouli to use as mulch.
Categorizing
Raíces Volunteer Crew Member Christina Proxenos categorizing seeds for distribution by the PR Resilience Fund into a system designed for storage and transportation in donated buckets.
Checking Seed Starts
Plenitud PR resident and team member Rebekah Sánchez checking the progress of seedling starts in the greenhouse at Plenitud. Seedlings are grown under the plastic roof of the greenhouse to control the amount of water they receive and protect them…
Cilantro Flowers Attracting Pollinators
Some herbs, greens and flowers are allowed to go to flower and seed to help attract and feed the pollinators as well as for seed saving for future plantings. Cilantro flowers are great at attracting pollinators, especially honeybees and native bees.
Coffee Country
The high mountains of Adjuntas provide the perfect terrain and environment for coffee production. Casa Pueblo will plant five acres of coffee to be grown and harvested sustainably, which will help provide the organization with economic independence…
Coffee Leaves
Close up of coffee tree leaves on newly planted seedlings in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico.
Coffee Plant Seedlings
These coffee plants will be planted over five acres and grown and harvested using sustainable methods. Sale of the coffee will help fund Casa Pueblo’s programs and help the NGO maintain economic independence.
Coffee Plantings
The beginnings of planting five acres of sustainably grown and harvest coffee. This coffee, grown by Casa Pueblo on the land surrounding the solar powered radio transmitter helps Casa Pueblo maintain and sustain itself economically and provide a…
Coffee Plants
Hundreds of coffee plants were donated to Casa Pueblo for planting using sustainable agro-ecological methods. Five acres of coffee plants will be established around the site of the solar radio transmitter for Radio Casa Pueblo. Coffee harvested from…
Coffee Seedling
A baby coffee bush, beginning to take root in the mountains above the pueblo of Adjuntas. The five acres of sustainably farmed and harvested coffee will grow surrounding Radio Casa Pueblo’s solar powered radio transmitter.
Coffee Transplants
Some of the coffee had already been transplanted along the edges of the cleared land.
Coffee Trees
Close up of coffee tree seedlings ready to be planted.
Collapsed Greenhouses
Collapsed greenhouses were a common site post-Hurricane María.
Cutting Patchouli
Plenitud PR intern Briana cutting patchouli and creating bunches to use as mulch. This adds rich organic matter to the soil as it breaks down, and the patchouli plant regenerates it’s leaves quickly, making a it a renewable green fertilizer. The…
Destruction - Adjuntas
Hydroponic garden system and greenhouse that was destroyed by Hurricane Maria in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico.
Don Luis and Doña Carmen
Don Luis Soto and his wife Doña Carmen with some of the seed donations given to their farm as part of the Raíces Sustainable Disaster Relief Support Initiative.
Don Luis and Doña Carmen Soto - Finca Mi Casa
Don Luis Soto and his wife Doña Carmen live on their farm Finca Mi Casa, in the coastal area of Camuy, Puerto Rico. Don Luis maintains one of the only USDA certified organic farms on the island of Puerto Rico. He is a retired agronomist and in his…
El Departamento de la Comida - Closed
We passed by where the Departamento de la Comida restaurant and local food farmer’s market used to be before Hurricane Maria. The restaurant and market were put on hold to create the PR Resiliency Fund project, which will support at least 200…