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Student volunteer cleaning plastic litter in a wooded section along the waterfront of the Raritan River as part of the Our Plastic Waters EcoArt Workshop in the Water Is Life Initiative.

Plastic pollution in a section of woods along the Raritan River waterfront, collected by volunteers during the Our Plastic Waters clean up and eco-art workshop.

Raíces EcoCulture Intern Kira Herzog visibly disappointed at how our community's disposable and single-use plastic ends up in our waterways.

Volunteers cleaning a quarter mile stretch of the Raritan River waterfront as part of the Our Plastic Waters EcoArt Workshop in the Water Is Life Initiative. After the cleanup garbage collected was sorted and transformed into eco-art sculptures.

Student volunteer cleaning along the waterfront of the Raritan River as part of the Our Plastic Waters EcoArt Workshop in the Water Is Life Initiative.

Middlesex County Conservation Corps coordinator Griffith Boyd helped with the logistics of the Our Plastic Waters cleanup along the Raritan River waterfront during the Water Is Life initiative.

Student volunteers from the Highland Park High School Environmental Club took part in the Our Plastic Waters cleanup and eco-art workshop during the Water Is Life initiative.

Volunteer cleaning along the waterfront of the Raritan River as part of the Our Plastic Waters EcoArt Workshop in the Water Is Life Initiative.

Volunteer cleaning the waterfront of the Raritan River as part of the Our Plastic Waters EcoArt Workshop in the Water Is Life Initiative.

Raíces Cultural Center director Francisco G. Gómez with a group of volunteers preparing to participate in a cleanup of a quarter mile stretch of the Raritan River as part of the Our Plastic Waters cleanup and ecoart workshop in the Water Is Life…

The river that runs along Plenitud PR’s compound.

After a morning filled with educational tours and presentations, as well as volunteer work on the farm, groups of service learning volunteers head down to the river to cool off.

A tent set up in the camping section of Plenitud PR’s compound. Tents are protected from the rain by a canopy and a drainage ditch dug around each camp site.

View of the river that runs along the Plenitud home base.

Permaculture planting principles promote biodiversity of plants and animals in order to nourish and support the regeneration and building of the soil instead of the depletion and erosion of soil that happens in monocropped, industrial agriculture…

The garden beds at Plenitud PR are filled with life and biodiversity, which in turn helps with natural pest control. Lizards hang out on the edge of the garden beds to sun themselves and wait for insects.

What looks like a mountainside covered in foliage from far away is actually a food jungle when seeds close up. This mountainside if filled with fruits, beneficial herbs, nitrogen fixers, deep rooted plants to hold the soil, pollinator plants and…

Sunrise view of the river that flows past Plenitud.

Overnight visitors to Plenitud PR stay in a campground area of the compound, protected from water and rain by extra pop-up tents and drainage ditches around each tent site.

View from the camping area at Plenitud PR over Plenitud’s land and the mountains beyond.

Doña Tinti Deyá, co-founder of Casa Pueblo.

Don Alexis Massol, who founded Casa Pueblo in 1980 along with his wife Doña Tinti Deyá.

Director of Casa Pueblo, Dr. Arturo Massol Deyá.

Director of Casa Pueblo, Dr. Arturo Massol Deyá with his father and co-founder of Casa Pueblo, Don Alexis Massol.
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