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The Plenitud PR team designed and terraformed along the slopes at their farm in Las Marías. Farming using permaculture principles has helped hold the soil, and the farm saw little erosion during Hurricane María and the months of rain after the…

The Puerto Rican cuatro is unofficially known as the national instrument of Puerto Rico. It is used to play the traditional jíbaro music of the mountains of Puerto Rico.

Mouth made entirely out of dental product packaging made by assemblage artist Lisa Bagwell.

The teepee is not a traditional structure for Ramapough Lenape people, however it was erected symbolically on their ceremonial land when donated to the camp as a temporary structure. As the Ramapough have been kept from constructing a long-house…

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.

Francisco G. Gómez teaching different types of drum hits to an Introduction to Bomba class participant.

Francisco G. Gómez teaches class participants about the cultural history and meaning behind the genres being explored and taught in all Raíces Cultural Arts Classes.

Francisco G. Gómez teaching cuá to an Introduction to Bomba class participant.

Professora Amazonas instructs the students in her children’s capoeira class before beginning training.

Teaching Bare about decorating and planting.

Professora Amazonas of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira teaching her adult capoeira class.

Herbal healing workshop presented by Angela Lugo, focused on herbal remedies for pain relief.

Playing in the roda provides capoeiristas and students of capoeira to practice and apply the skills they learn while training and in classes and workshops, but also provide a hands-on opportunity to learn more. Here is an example of students helping…

All cultural arts classes offered at Raíces Cultural Center include a history component.

After a day of sorting seeds at the PR Resiliency Fund’s Seed Brigade, most of the volunteers stuck around and were eager to learn about local edible and medicinal wild plants and visit nearby community gardens.

Renu Jagasia, Common Ground program participant, gives the "a-ok" signal after taste testing the salads made during the kick off Common Ground workshop.

Common Ground program participant taste testing one of the salads made during the workshop.

Banner reading "Tarsands Kill, Pipelines Spill" being displayed as demonstrators gathered in preparation for the People's Climate March.

The roof on the wooden casita at Tainasoy Apiario was damaged over one room in the storm. When FEMA came to tarp the roof three months after Hurricane María, workers walked on undamaged sections of the roof, causing further damage and leaks. As a…

Creator and leader of the PR Resilience Fund initiative Tara Rodriguez Besosa receiving donations brought to Puerto Rico from members of our home community in Central NJ by the Raíces Cultural Center crew. Included in the list of supplies requested…

Mangled utility poles and dangling, tangled wires were a common sight throughout the island, even in the lush rainforest of El Yunque.

Raíces Director Francisco G. Gómez speaking with Raquel and Junito Ayala about the storm, the aftermath, and the recovery and rebuilding.

Raíces Cultural Center Director Francisco G. Gómez talking with Don Luis Soto of Finca Mi Casa about the damage his farm suffered during Hurricane María.

Raíces Cultural Center Director Francisco G. Gómez talking to students on a service learning retreat at Plenitud PR in Las Marías.
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