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Bee Box Construction: Our First Langstroth Hive Complete
Raices’ first completed construction of a Langstroth bee hive.
Bee Box Construction: Unfinished Box
Unfinished Langstroth bee box and inserted frames.
Beekeeping Equipment
Beekeeping equipment at Tainasoy Apiario.
Breaking Bread with Visions Students
During the time Raíces crew members stayed at Plenitud PR’s permaculture farm and eco-learning center, a group of students from St. Thomas University in Minnesota was visiting on a service-learning trip. The Raíces crew arrived just as dinner was…
Butterfly House
Butterfly house at Casa Pueblo in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, where a native subspecies of monarch is bred, protected, and released into the natural environment. A few monarchs remain in the butterfly house at any given time in order to educate visitors,…
Casa Pueblo de Adjuntas
Casa Pueblo de Adjuntas is an organization located in the Central Highlands of Puerto Rico, in a small municipality called Adjuntas. Casa Pueblo is a community-based, non-governmental organization that promotes, through voluntary participation of…
Casa Pueblo Interviews
On site interviews at the press conference announcing the first solar powered radio transmitter on the island of Puerto Rico.
Casa Pueblo Press Conference
Casa Pueblo director Arturo Massol Deyá speaking at a press conference to announce the launch of the first solar powered radio transmitter on the island of Puerto Rico.
Categorizing
Raíces Volunteer Crew Member Christina Proxenos categorizing seeds for distribution by the PR Resilience Fund into a system designed for storage and transportation in donated buckets.
Coffee Grinder
Coffee grinder in Casa Pueblo. The organization begun to plant and grow five acres of sustainably farmed coffee after Hurricane María, which will help Casa Pueblo sustain itself economically through the sale of local coffee.
Don Luis and Doña Carmen
Don Luis Soto and his wife Doña Carmen with some of the seed donations given to their farm as part of the Raíces Sustainable Disaster Relief Support Initiative.
Doña Tinti Deyá
Doña Tinti Deyá, co-founder of Casa Pueblo.
Doña Tinti Deyá
Co-founder of Casa Pueblo, Doña Tinti Deyá.
Doña Tinti Deyá and Francisco G. Gómez in the Casa Pueblo Artisan Shop
Doña Tinti, co-founder of Casa Pueblo, assisting Francisco G. Gómez, co-founder and director of Raíces Cultural Center, in the Casa Pueblo Artisan Shop.
Doña Tinti Deyá in the Casa Pueblo Artisan Shop
Doña Tinti Deyá, co-founder of Casa Pueblo, assisting Raíces volunteer Christina Proxenos with the purchase of artisan made jewelry. Casa Pueblo runs an artisan shop to help maintain the economic sustainability and self-sufficiency of the…
Earthbag House
This earthbag and super adobe house, along with three others around the island of Puerto Rico designed by Plenitud co-founder Owen Ingley, suffered zero damage from Hurricane María.
Earthbag House
Earthbag house at Plenitud PR. This resilient structure made it through Hurricane María and the months of rain that followed with no damage.
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…
Flower
Flower in bloom in Plenitud PR’s permaculture gardens.
Flower
A flower in the ginger family in bloom in the permaculture gardens at Plenitud PR in Las Marías, Puerto Rico.
Food Forest at Tainasoy
This hillside is filled with fruit like banana, plantain, pineapple and papaya. Beyond the food forest, at the bottom of the slope, is the first site of the first earthship construction site in Puerto Rico.
Garden at Tainasoy Apiario
The garden beds at Tainasoy Apiario are raised beds with irrigation ditches fed by a rainwater catchment system. The beds are made on contour for soil stability and to help prevent erosion, as well as for water management. These beds are for annual…
Ginger Flower
A ginger flower in bloom.
Ginger Flower In Bloom
A flower in the ginger family in bloom at the top of a 10’+ stalk.
Goat Cage
Temporary goat cage constructed out of recycled/upcycled pallets after Hurricane María