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These coffee plants will be planted over five acres and grown and harvested using sustainable methods. Sale of the coffee will help fund Casa Pueblo’s programs and help the NGO maintain economic independence.

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Coffee beans ripening.

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Close up of coffee tree leaves on newly planted seedlings in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico.

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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.

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The high mountains of Adjuntas provide the perfect terrain and environment for coffee production. Casa Pueblo will plant five acres of coffee to be grown and harvested sustainably, which will help provide the organization with economic independence…

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Doña Carmen Soto of Finca Mi Casa bringing coffee and homemade muffins to give us some fuel to continue to our work and travels.

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Coffee and doughnut made out of plastic utensils, plastic lids and excess food packaging. Sculpture by Lisa Bagwell.

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Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira engages the community in the art of capoeira, getting the audience out of their seat to participate, learn and play.

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Bomba Research Conference founder and organizer Melanie Maldonado exhibits some of the petticoats worn by Doña Luz María Rosada Villodas, a bombera from a historic family in Guayama, and talks about the older styles of dress worn in the period being…

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The clothing business was what originally got founder Sylvia Hove into the Domboshava project.

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Other vendors were into clothing too so competition.

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While some kiosks and small businesses in Piñones have reopened, others remained closed and in disrepair as of January 2018.

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Clearing debris piles of organic material along road 187 through Piñones into Loíza.

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Immediately after the storm residents formed brigades to clear the road of debris, including fallen trees, vegetation and landslides. Much of this was piled along the sides of the roads. Upon arriving in Puerto Rico four months after the storm, most…

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A landslide had completely covered this road in El Yunque rainforest. It was cleared by the time the Raíces crew visited in January 2018, but the road was still almost impassable in a small car because of how broken up it had become by the power of…

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Member of the Ramapough Lenape tribe cleansing participants of a tobacco ceremony before entering the ceremonial lodge.

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Volunteer cleaning along the waterfront of the Raritan River as part of the Our Plastic Waters EcoArt Workshop in the Water Is Life Initiative.

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Middlesex County Conservation Corps coordinator Griffith Boyd helped with the logistics of the Our Plastic Waters cleanup along the Raritan River waterfront during the Water Is Life initiative.

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Student volunteers going the extra mile to remove plastic pollution out of a feeder stream along the banks of the Raritan River.

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Raíces Cultural Center director Francisco G. Gómez collects litter from along the banks of the Raritan River, later to be used as art materials for "garbage art" sculptures in the Our Plastic Waters eco-art workshop.

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Cleaning Masikandoro

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Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira members Rasta and Abelha in the roda, applying what they learned during training in that night’s class.

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Digital painting of Cinnamon Tree. This botanical illustration was created as part of a Raíces Branch of Community History digital exhibit.
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