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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…
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.
Solar Powered Radio Transmitter
Casa Pueblo’s solar powered radio transmitter, located in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. This is the first solar powered radio transmitter on the island of Puerto Rico and broadcasts Casa Pueblo Radio in Adjuntas and parts of Utuado.
Solar Panels for Transmitting Radio Casa Pueblo Broadcasts
This small building covered in solar panels serves as a miniature power station for the solar powered radio transmitter that broadcasts Radio Casa Pueblo.
Press Conference on the Mountain
During the press conference announcing the launch of Casa Pueblo’s solar powered radio transmitter, journalists and guests were invited to visit the solar powered transmitter site and view the equipment used to power the first solar powered radio…
Battery Rack for Radio Casa Pueblo
Batteries charged by solar panels on the roof of the building. These power the first solar powered radio transmitter on the island of Puerto Rico, which broadcasts Radio Casa Pueblo in Adjuntas and parts of Utuado, Puerto Rico
Casa Pueblo Interviews
On site interviews at the press conference announcing the first solar powered radio transmitter on the island of 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 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.
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…
Transmitter
Casa Pueblo’s solar powered radio transmitter, up the mountainside from the building holding the solar array and housing the batteries and inverter equipment. This mountainside will soon also be filled with young coffee plants, to be grown and…
Press Conference - Casa Pueblo Solar Transmitter
To the right is the building that houses the batteries and equipment to power their solar powered radio transmissions. To the left are seedlings to be planted across five acres of land for sustainable agriculture, meant to help support the activities…
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 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 Leaves
Close up of coffee tree leaves on newly planted seedlings in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico.
Sustainable Coffee Farming
Coffee seedlings for five acres of plantings by Casa Pueblo. The coffee will be farmed and harvested sustainably and available for purchase by visitors to Casa Pueblo as well as local community members. Sales of this coffee help support the…
Destruction - Adjuntas
Hydroponic garden system and greenhouse that was destroyed by Hurricane Maria in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico.
Regeneration and Regrowth - Adjuntas
In the mountains of Adjuntas, many of the natural ecosystems have been struggling to bounce back after being devastated by Hurricane María, but there are signs of regeneration in foliage on farms and in forests. These banana and plantain trees are…
Stream and Forest Regenerating in Adjuntas
Street and forest regenerating and regrowing after Hurricane Maria’s destruction.
Destroyed Grid - Adjuntas
Just a couple of blocks from the square in Adjuntas. The electric grid was almost completely destroyed in the central mountains of Puerto Rico, with much of it remaining unrepaired and in disarray for months following the storm in towns like…
Landslide - Las Marías
Over 25,000 landslides were catalogued throughout the island of Puerto Rico in the months following Hurricane María. High concentrations of these landslides occurred in mountain towns like Las Marías.
Dinner at Plenitud
Students, volunteers, residents and visitors eat a communal dinner in the learning center at Plenitud PR.
Serving Dinner
Owen Ingley of Plenitud and Nicole Wines of Raíces Cultural Center serving dinner to VISIONS students on a service learning retreat.
Dinner is Ready at Plenitud PR
Owen Ingley, co-founder and director of Plenitud, getting ready to serve dinner to visiting students on a service learning trip from St. Tomas University in Minnesota.