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Puerto Rican Honeybee
Puerto Rican Honeybee pollinating a cluster of flowers.
Oryon Chaparro
Orion Chaparro and his milkweed blossoms meant to attract and feed the Puerto Rican monarch at TaínaSoy Apiary and Farm.
TaínaSoy Family at Earthship PR - Ory
Ory, one of the members of the family who runs the TaínaSoy Apiary and Farm, where EarthshipPR is being constructed, showed the Raíces crew his milkweed project, meant to attract and feed the Puerto Rican monarch.
Pollinator on Elcampane
Elecampane patches around the edge of the garden help to attract native pollinators like bumblebees which are needed for pollination of certain vegetables like tomatoes, peppers and eggplants.
Bumblebee
Bumblebee gathering pollen from an elcampane flower. This plant provides food for pollinators and the root can be used as a healing herb.
Bumblebee Foraging Oregano
Bumblebee gathering pollen from an oregano flower. This plant provides food for pollinators and can be used as a culinary and healing herb.
Elcampane
Elcampane patch in the Raíces EcoCulture herbal gardens.
Anise Hyssop
Bumblebee gathering pollen from an anise hyssop flower. This plant provides food for pollinators and can be used as a healing herb.
Echinacea Patch
Ecinacea patch in the Raíces EcoCulture herbal garden. This flower provides food for pollinators and can be used as a healing herb.
Echinacea Flowers
Echinacea flower in bloom.
Bumblebee Foraging Elcampane
Bumblebees are attracted to elcampane, a flowering perrenial grown around the edges of the Raíces EcoCulture gardens. The root of this plant can also be used as a healing herb.
Flowering Thyme
Flowering thyme provides food for pollinators and can be used make an herbal tea using the fresh or dried flyers.
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.
People's Climate March Participant
Demonstrator with a bee puppet gathering to participate in the People's Climate March.
Relief, Renewal, Resilience: Reflections on Hurricane María and her Aftermath - Trailer
Trailer for the Raíces Cultural Center documentary Relief, Renewal, Resilience: Reflections on Hurricane María and her Aftermath. The documentary was premiered in the Spring of the 2019 at the Forum Theater in Metuchen, New Jersey.
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Cilantro Flowers Attracting Pollinators
Some herbs, greens and flowers are allowed to go to flower and seed to help attract and feed the pollinators as well as for seed saving for future plantings. Cilantro flowers are great at attracting pollinators, especially honeybees and native bees.
Puerto Rican Honeybee
Pollinators were hit especially hard in the months after Hurricane Maria, as the winds and rains left the island with little foliage and almost no flowers. Food for pollinators was scarce for several months. By the time of Raíces Cultural Center’s…
Cosmos for the Pollinators
On the stretch of property between the Casa Pueblo main building and mariposario, or butterfly house, there are stands of flowers to provide food to the released butterflies and other pollinators. These stands of cosmos are self-gaining and self-…
Caterpillars and Chrysalises
Caterpillars and chrysalises undergoing transformation into a species of monarch butterfly that is native to the island of Puerto Rico, Danaus plexippus portorricensis. This subspecies does not migrate off of the island. Like its cousins in other…
Breeding Native Monarchs
As part of ecological restoration, protection and education programs, Casa Pueblo maintains a mariposario and breed native monarch butterflies, and important pollinator on the island. Insect populations were decimated by Hurricane María and the lack…
Mariposario
Inside the butterfly house, or mariposario, at Casa Pueblo in Adjuntas. Butterflies, which are important pollinators, are bred and released here, giving a boost to the island’s population of insects that was affected by Hurricane María.
Butterfly
Butterflies are important pollinators, and Casa Pueblo continued its work of breeding, releasing and protecting butterflies in their mariposario, or butterfly house, immediately after Hurricane María.
Native Monarch
A species of monarch endemic to the island of Puerto Rico. This type of monarch does not migrate off the island. This butterfly was in the mariposa, or butterfly house, at Casa Pueblo in Adjuntas. Breeding and providing habitat for butterflies and…
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.…
Mariposario
One of the projects that stood out the most upon visiting Casa Pueblo was their mariposario, or butterfly house. The mariposario was home to dozens of native monarchs, endemic to the island of Puerto Rico. This is a sub-species of monarch that does…