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Service Learning at Plenitud
Students from St. Thomas University’s Visions program participating in a service learning trip to Plenitud PR post-María. Rebekah Sánchez, who lives and works at Plenitud and founded the project Siembra Boricua is explaining agroecology and…
Service Learning at Plenitud
Service learning program participant Mary Timm from St. Thomas University’s VISIONS program watering plants in the greenhouse at Plenitud.
Service Learning at Plenitud PR
Students from St. Thomas University in Minnesota were attending a service learning program at Plenitud PR when the Raíces crew arrived in January 2018. Students participating in the trip participated in trainings, workshops, and volunteer…
Service Learning in the Greenhouse
Service learning program participant Sunita Dharod from St. Thomas University’s VISIONS program weeding the garden beds in the greenhouse at Plenitud.
Serving Dinner
Owen Ingley of Plenitud and Nicole Wines of Raíces Cultural Center serving dinner to VISIONS students on a service learning retreat.
Shallots
Shallots are one of many crops not common to the Caribbean that Don Luis Soto has been able to adapt to the tropical growing conditions and proposed successfully on his farm Finca Mi Casa.
Sharing Seeds
The Raíces Disaster Relief Support Crew stopped to take a quick photo of a collapsed greenhouse in the outskirts of Lares As they did a car came up the driveway. It turned out to be the owner of the property, Olga Perez. Olga’s husband is an…
Sign - "Plaza Vivero"
Sign inside the gardens at Plaza Vivero that says “Plaza Vivero community project - people live here”
Sign for Artesanías Castor Ayala Artisan Shop
Sign for the Artesanías Castor Ayala in January 2018, 4 months after Hurricane María. Culture persists.
Slideshow - Puerto Rico Sustainable Disaster Relief
Slideshow from our community presentation about the impacts of Raíces Cultural Center's post-Hurricane María sustainable disaster relief initiative in Puerto Rico.
Solar Cinema
This former school building which is immediately next door to Casa Pueblo’s main building has been converted into a solar powered cinema for the community of Adjuntas. It is also used as classroom and meeting space and for presentations and…
Solar Panels at Radio Casa Pueblo
On January 16, 2018, Casa Pueblo made history for the island of Puerto Rico, inaugurating the first solar power radio transmitter on the island. Through demonstration projects that illustrate and achieve energy independence and resiliency with…
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.
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 Radio Transmitter
On January 16, 2018, Casa Pueblo announced the launch of the first solar powered radio transmitter on the island of Puerto Rico. The transmitter would broadcast locally for Radio Casa Pueblo.
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 Seed Donations
Sorting through seed donations at the PR Resiliency Fund’s “Brigada de Semillas” or Seed Brigade, held in Puerta de Tierra, San Juan from January 15-19, 2018. These seed donations, from Hudson Valley Seed Company, were being sorted for inclusion in…
Sorting Seed Donations
Raíces volunteer Christina Proxenos sorting through seed donations at the PR Resiliency Fund’s Seed Brigade.
Sorting Seed Donations
Seed Brigade volunteers looking through the box of seed donations, discovering rare and interesting varieties and admiring the Hudson Valley Seed Company art packs.
Sorting Seeds at the PR Resilience Fund’s Seed Brigade
Volunteer and San Juan resident Rahnawn Littles sorting a set of seeds from Hudson Valley Seed Library for donation to school gardens, organic farms and agroecology projects, community gardens, and home growers throughout the island of Puerto Rico.
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 Seeds for Donation
Some of the seed donations that came to the PR Resilience Fund were in bulk packages and had to be sorted, separated into smaller envelopes and labeled. Volunteers from all over the world worked for five days to get the seeds sorted and ready for…
Sorting Seeds for School Semitecas
Seed Brigade volunteer Rahnawn Littles sorts out Hudson Valley Seed Company donations to include in mini Semitecas designated for donation to school gardens.
Sorting Seeds for Semitecas
Seed Brigade volunteer Gregory, who was visiting his parents in San Juan and wanted to volunteer for sustainable relief and recovery efforts. Gregory sorted Husdon Valley Seed Company seeds for donations to over 70 schools through the Semiteca…