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Volunteers at EarthshipPR
Volunteers sorting recycling to see what can be incorporated into the EarthshipPR domes and walls.
Earthship Dome Frame
Rebar framing for second dome under construction at the EarthshipPR build at TaínaSoy in Aguada, Puerto Rico.
EarthshipPR Under Construction at TaínaSoy
The first earthship in Puerto Rico under construction at TaínaSoy in Aguada, Puerto Rico, 6 months after the devastating impacts of Hurricane María. The design of this sustainable building is meant to withstand the impacts of future hurricanes and…
Honeybee Demonstration Frames at TaínaSoy Apiary
Demonstration frames at TaínaSoy Apiary in Aguada, Puerto Rico, used for educational programs at schools and table displays at community events and farmer's markets.
Mountains in Puerto Rico
Mountains in Puerto Rico. Six months after Hurricane Maria, the natural vegetation had begun to grow back and mountains were beginning to look green and lush again.
Plenitud Eco-Educational Initiatives Interview Excerpt
8/27/13
Las Marías, Puerto Rico
Raíces Cultural Center Directors visited Plenitude Eco-Educational Initiatives farm "Tres Amigos" and spoke with some of the members of the organization about Plenitud and Tres Amigos, permaculture, sustainable…
Las Marías, Puerto Rico
Raíces Cultural Center Directors visited Plenitude Eco-Educational Initiatives farm "Tres Amigos" and spoke with some of the members of the organization about Plenitud and Tres Amigos, permaculture, sustainable…
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…
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.
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.
Tropical Fruit Orchard
Banana trees amongst other fruit saplings planted in a young fruit orchard at Plenitud PR.
Flower Blooming in the Nathan Lewis Mosby Memorial Garden
Flower Blooming in the Nathan Lewis Mosby Memorial Garden. This
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.
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.
Tropical Plant
Tropical plant growing in the gardens at Plenitud PR.
Papaya Tree
Papaya tree growing at Plenitud PR.
Bamboo Grove
Bamboo grove 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.
Legume Flower
Flower blossoming on a leguminous cover crop vine at Plenitud PR.
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.
Plenitud PR Farm Tour
Plenitud PR co-founder Paula Paoli Garrido looking out over the farmland while giving a site tour.
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…
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.
Seed Pod
Large seed pod on a nitrogen fixing leguminous vine growing at Plenitud PR.
Beet Sprouts
Beet seeds sprouting in a seed bed at Plenitud PR.
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.