Volunteer and visual artist Joyce M. works with garbage collected during the Our Plastic Waters Raritan River clean up to turn it into usable art materials for a "garbage art" sculpture.
Freshly planted plots at Finca Mi Casa in Camuy, Puerto Rico. All seeds planted on the farm are open pollinated so they are suitable for seed saving. Don Luis Soto, the owner of Finca Mi Casa is an expert seed saver on the island of Puerto Rico. Many…
Tobias Knight, a visitor to Plenitud PR during a service learning exchange with St. Thomas University’s VISIONS program. This is the first time Tobias saw or tried eating a starfruit.
One of many storefronts for sale or rent throughout the island of Puerto Rico. This was already a common sight before Hurricane María due to the economic crisis on the island, but became event more widespread after the storm.
What looks like a mountainside covered in foliage from far away is actually a food jungle when seeds close up. This mountainside if filled with fruits, beneficial herbs, nitrogen fixers, deep rooted plants to hold the soil, pollinator plants and…
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.
Driving through the mountains of the interior of the island showed how nature has begun to regenerate after the damage of Hurricane María, but also that there was a long way to go for full recovery, as evident in the tens of thousands of landslides…
Raíces Cultural Center flyer for Raícitas "Little Roots" Family Cultural Arts classes offered at the Eugene Young Environmental Eduction Center in August and September of 2023.
Raíces Cultural Center flyer for Afro-Caribbean hand percussion classes offered at the Eugene Young Environmental Eduction Center beginning in the Fall of 2023.
Raíces Cultural Center flyer providing an overview of the organization's cultural arts programs offered at the Eugene Young Environmental Eduction Center in the Fall of 2023.
Flyer for the concert in the 2018 Raíces Roots Music Concert Series held in November of 2018. This concert series sought to bridge cultures through the universal language of music, while at the same time bringing together NJ based culture bearers,…
Flyer for the first concert in the 2018 Raíces Roots Music Concert Series. This concert series sought to bridge cultures through the universal language of music, while at the same time bringing together NJ based culture bearers, artists and…
Flyer for the concert in the 2018 Raíces Roots Music Concert Series held in August of 2018. This concert series sought to bridge cultures through the universal language of music, while at the same time bringing together NJ based culture bearers,…
Flyer for the concert in the 2018 Raíces Roots Music Concert Series held in September of 2018. This concert series sought to bridge cultures through the universal language of music, while at the same time bringing together NJ based culture bearers,…