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Community Conversation - Puerto Rico Sustainable Disaster Relief
Open discussion and question and answer session on the topic of sustainable disaster relief after Raíces Cultural Center's presentation on our efforts and impacts from the first round of support provided as part of our post-Hurricane María…
Garbage Art
Volunteer Christina Proxenos works on one of three "River Fish" sculptures created during the Our Plastic Waters eco-art workshop.
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.
Raíces and Plenitud PR
Raíces director Francisco G. Gómez, program coordinator Nicole Wines and volunteer Christina Proxenos with Plenitud PR resident and crew member Carson Ingley.
Raíces and VISIONS at Plenitud
Raíces director Francisco G. Gómez, program coordinator Nicole Wines and volunteer Christina Proxenos with the VISIONS group and some of the Plenitud PR crew during our visit in January 2018.
Purslane
Christina Proxenos, a volunteer with Raíces Cultural Center who came on our January 2018 relief support trip to Puerto Rico, harvesting purslane from the Plenitud PR greenhouse to include in the day’s lunch salad.
Planting
Student volunteers planting at Plenitud PR during their service learning trip.
Talking to VISIONS Students at Plenitud
Raíces Cultural Center Director Francisco G. Gómez talking to students on a service learning retreat at Plenitud PR in Las Marías.
Dinner at Plenitud
Students, volunteers, residents and visitors eat a communal dinner in the learning center at Plenitud PR.
Greenhouse Production at Finca Mi Casa
Despite losing the plastic roof and the door to the screened in greenhouse, Don Luis Soto of Finca Mi Casa resumed annual crop production inside his greenhouse almost immediately after Hurricane Maria passed. When the Raíces crew visited in January…
Preparing the Earth For Planting Beans
Don Luis Soto watches over as the Raíces Crew helps prepare a bed for planting beans. This planting was intended for seed saving of three different kinds of bean seeds sent to Puerto Rico to help regenerate a local seed stock. Before planting, the…
Hospitality
The Raíces crew was greeted with hospitality everywhere we went on the island during our January 2018 sustainable disaster support trip. Doña Carmen gave us a break from turning the earth in the small bean patch we were about to plant to take a…
Working the Earth at Finca Mi Casa
Raíces Director Francisco G. Gómez and volunteer Christina Proxenos working the earth at Finca Mi Casa under the direction of Don Luis Soto. During our visit, we planted a small patch of three varieties of beans for seed saving from some of the…
Hand Tools
The Raíces crew preparing a patch of earth with Don Luis to plant three varieties of beans for seed saving.
Doña Tinti Deyá in the Casa Pueblo Artisan Shop
Doña Tinti Deyá, co-founder of Casa Pueblo, assisting Raíces volunteer Christina Proxenos with the purchase of artisan made jewelry. Casa Pueblo runs an artisan shop to help maintain the economic sustainability and self-sufficiency of the…
Sorting Seed
Raíces Disaster Relief Trip Volunteer Christina Proxenos sorting seed into a bucket system for distribution to local farmers, school gardens, community gardens and agroecokogy projects.
Sorting Seeds at the Seed Brigade
Raíces Disaster Relief Trip Volunteer Christina Proxenos working with local residents to sort seed donations for distribution to sustainable farmers, agroecokogy projects, community gardens, ands school gardens.
Sorting Seed Donations
Raíces volunteer Christina Proxenos sorting through seed donations at the PR Resiliency Fund’s Seed Brigade.
Turning Soil at Finca Mi Casa
While at Finca Mi Casa, the Raíces crew members on the Sustainable Disaster Relief Support Trip learned about preparing the soil by hand and spent time preparing and planting a bed of beans for seed saving.