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Ba Mike's potato garden and his wife on the side. These are very sandy soils that are so depleted.

The babies were part of the process they go everywhere with their mum.

Back to my roots

The current generation needs to go back to our roots

Backyard herbs harvested to illustrate and share with members of the Raíces Herbal Circle. Herbs pictured include chickweed, purple deadnettle, dandelion root, and violet.

Title slide from Raíces Herbal Circle presentation on Backyard Herbs by Nicole Wines

These are bags of cornmeal.

Bomba dancer at 5th Encuentro de Tambores dancing before the drum.

Video clip from the 2009 Raíces fact finding exchange trip to Puerto Rico

Bomba dancers often use their skirts when dancing before the drum to execute the picoteos, or piquetes, that call on the lead drummer to respond to in sound.

A variety of bamboo cultivated by Plenitud specifically to help stabilize the soil with its deep root systems as well as help control and absorb runoff during storms.

Bamboo grove at Plenitud PR.

Path leading into a bamboo grove at Plenitud PR.

Bamboo plates

We are using bamboo as a plate

Bamboo tomato cage built to support indeterminate type tomato plants that can grow to over 6 feet tall.

Using banana leaves, bamboo and pottery and gourds

Banana trees with regenerated foliage at Finca Mi Casa. Banana and plantain trees completely lost all foliage and vegetation in the winds of Hurricane Maria but had already begun to regenerate when Raíces visited in January 2018.

Bomba drum, or barril de bomba

Barriles “bomba drums” on the beach at night in San Juan. Puerto Rico.

Students practicing Bomba patterns on barriles de bomba.

Members of the Raíces Folkloric Ensemble, along with student Kira Herzog, play the Cuban batá drums and sing for the waters at the Water Is Life opening reception.

Constructing a handmade chagworo for the batá drums.

Constructing a handmade chagworo for the batá drums.
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