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Bee box ready to house bees after a honeybee rescue by Carlos Chaparro, one of the owners of Tainasoy Apiario.

Constructing sides of base board for a bee box. A wood router is used to bore out grooves on white pine pieces to later insert plywood base board.

Raíces Co-Director Francisco G. Gómez holds finished bee box base board. Base board is made of white pine and plywood.

Sears wood router and a jig table for making bee frames and putting together the bee box.

Hanging beet made of out plastic bottle caps and food packaging.

Beet seeds sprouting in a seed bed at Plenitud PR.

Raíces student performer Aja Washington dancing Yemayá, the orisha, or force of nature, of the ocean. In Nigeria, the orisha Yemayá was originally a river, but in the evolution on the island of Cuba, during and after the trans-Atlantic slave trade,…

Oyá is the orisha, or force of nature of the whirlwinds, the energy that brings chaos and destruction to make room for change and new growth. She is also the gatekeeper of the cemetary and the marketplace, deciding who may enter and who may leave.

In Professora Amazonas classes, all students, including the children, study and learn the instruments of capoeira, from the drums to the berimbau, and play during the roda.

Berimbau, an essential instrument in the capoeira batería.

Berimbau played in a "roda de Capoeira" at the annual Arts in the Park festival held in Highland Park, New Jersey.

The berimbau is the leader of the roda, setting the rules of the game, and the atabaque provides the pulse or the heartbeat.

Berimbaus hanging on the wall at FICA.

Sign welcoming visitors to Adjuntas, still showing signs of the strength of Hurricane María, with electric lines hanging across the front of the sign three months after the storm passed.
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