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Havana Province - Street Mural
Street mural on El Prado Old Havana.
Havana Province - Street Mural
Street mural on El Prado Old Havana.
Las Marías
Mountain view from Plenitud Eco-Iniciativas in Las Marías, Puerto Rico.
Mural in Havana
NJ musician Dean Warren Schomburg on a cultural arts exchange trip in Havana, Cuba.
Ernest Hemingway
Dean Warren Schomburg posing with statue of Ernest Hemingway in "el Floridita" in Havana, Cuba. "El Floridita" was a well known hangout of Hemingway.
Santera in Havana
NJ musician Dean Warren Schomburg on a cultural arts exchange designed to make connections between NJ based artists active in the preservation of Caribbean cultural arts and traditions and individuals practicing those traditions in the Caribbean. …
Cuban Congas
NJ musician Dean Warren Schomburg posing with congas in Cuba, one of the most common instruments played in Afro-Cuban and Afro-Caribbean music. These drums are handmade and maintained with care as resources are scarce.
Dancing in Havana
In Havana, there is no specified time or place for music, it is simply part of everyday life, from morning to night. On his cultural exchange trip to Cuba, NJ musician Dean Warren Schomburg experienced this, as pictured here by his spontaneous dance…
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.
Puerta de Tierra
A building that collapsed onto and crushed a car in Puerta de Tierra, San Juan, almost four full months after Hurricane María made landfall on the island.
Seeds for Tainasoy
Noemi Chaparro of Tainasoy Apiario and Villa Bonuco Earthship looking through seeds she received from Raíces when crew members visited her farm and apiary. Seeds included pollinator friendly flowers to provide food for the bees and other pollinators.…
International Seed Volunteers
Volunteers from around the world work under the direction of Mara Nieves who is coordinating the PR Resiliency Fund’s Semiteca seed bank project.
Mini Seed Banks
These toolboxes serve as the first set of mini-seed banks to be distributed to participating schools from the Semiteca program. Schools participating in this program will receive seed and seed saving education guidance, as well as agricultural…
“Brigadas de Semillas” Sign
Sign welcoming volunteers to the PR Resiliency Fund’s Seed Brigade.
Seeds for Marco Ayala Lind
Sharing seeds with Marco Ayala Lind for his home garden.
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…
Seed Distribution at Finca Mi Casa
Don Luis Soto of Finca Mi Casa choosing seeds to grow from the donations that were sent with Raíces Cultural Center on our initial Disaster Relief Support Trip.
Preparing the Soil for Planting
Members of the Raíces Cultural Center Disaster Relief volunteer crew working on Finca Mi Casa with Don Luis Soto, providing a helping hand to prepare and plant a bed of beans being grown for seed saving. All planting beds at Finca Mi Casa is prepared…
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.
Categorizing Seeds
One of the main projects the day the Raíces Crew attended the Seed Brigade was developing and implementing a categorizing and storage system for seed donations.
Seed Storage
Seeds that were sorted for distribution were categorized into a bucket system that would make it easy to access different types of seeds on demand.
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…
Che’s - Closed
A well known restaurant, Che’s, which was in Isla Verde in San Juan, remains closed after Hurricane Maria, as did many local businesses.
Mural
The Puerto Rican flag appeared on many murals and pieces of street art seed throughout the one week trip Raíces made in January 2018, four months after Hurricane Maria.