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Bamboo Grove Path
Path leading into a bamboo grove at Plenitud PR.
Farming for Resilience
When a heavy storm knocked down a papaya tree without completely uprooting it in one of their permaculture garden beds, Plenitud PR team members experimented and let it continue growing instead of removing it from the bed. The result was a…
Sideways Papaya
Papaya tree growing sideways after being knocked down, but not uprooted by a strong storm.
Teamwork
Plenitud PR co-founder Paula Paoli Garrido and one of the 2013 season interns, Jariksa Valle Feliciano celebrating the success of a high germination rate in a seed bed visited during a farm tour.
Beet Sprouts
Beet seeds sprouting in a seed bed at Plenitud PR.
Seed Pod
Large seed pod on a nitrogen fixing leguminous vine growing at Plenitud PR.
Seed Bed
Seed bed sprouting at Plenitud PR with a variety of annual vegetable seedlings. These will later be transplanted into various garden beds around the farm.
Nitrogen Fixer
Nitrogen fixing leguminous vine growing between garden beds at Plenitud PR. At certain points in the growing season, these vines are chopped back to become green compost in a method called "chop and drop", continuing to nourish the soil as they…
Plenitud PR Farm Tour
Plenitud PR co-founder Paula Paoli Garrido looking out over the farmland while giving a site tour.
Legume Blossom
Flower in bloom on a leguminous cover crop vine that serves multiple beneficial purposes including as a nitrogen fixer, a weed suppressant, and a green compost when cut down during "chop and drop" periods.
Legume Flower
Flower blossoming on a leguminous cover crop vine at Plenitud PR.
Paula Paoli Garrido, co-founder of Plenitud PR
Paula Paoli Garrido, co-founder of Plenitud PR, examining some container gardens while on a farm tour of the site.
Bamboo Grove
Bamboo grove at Plenitud PR.
Papaya Tree
Papaya tree growing at Plenitud PR.
Tropical Plant
Tropical plant growing in the gardens at Plenitud PR.
Memorial Garden in Bloom
Flower in bloom in a memorial garden planted at Plenitud PR in honor of a former volunteer who had recently passed away. These flowers bloomed for the very first time during our 2013 site visit to Plenitud PR.
Memorial Sign for Nathan Lewis Mosby
A sign dedicating a memorial garden bed to Nathan Lewis Mosby, a former volunteer who had recently passed away.
Flower Blooming in the Nathan Lewis Mosby Memorial Garden
Flower Blooming in the Nathan Lewis Mosby Memorial Garden. This
Tropical Fruit Orchard
Banana trees amongst other fruit saplings planted in a young fruit orchard at Plenitud PR.
Walking and Talking at Plenitud Eco Farm
Raíces Cultural Center Director Francisco G. Gómez walking and talking with Co-Director of Plenitud Iniciativas Eco-educativas.
Chickens at Plenitud PR
Chickens in their pen at Plenitud PR. Keeping chickens provides multiple benefits in a permaculture system as practiced here including, helping provide food via egg production, providing nitrogen rich fertilizer, waste reduction and pest control.
Malanga
Malanga growing in a garden bed at Plenitud PR. Malanga is a root vegetable and a staple ingredient in Puerto Rican cuisine. It also has the benefit of withstanding intense hurricanes to provide food during post-hurricane recover periods, since the…
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. …