Our agriculture team’s Karina Merced Arzola tells us about her experience with the Placita Agricola initiative and how you can be a part of food sovereignty in Puerto Rico.

Our resident environmental designer Vilmary Lugo talks about the process of building our campsite cabin.

Renowned Puerto Rican chef Giovanna Huyke shared her vegan recipe for traditional Puerto Rican sopón! We are definitely trying this recipe at home - will you?!

Learn more about our experience with cows from horticulturist Katie ‘Mila’ Bullis!

In their essence, cows are beings that nourish the spaces they inhabit, and the other living beings they coexist with.

Let's have agroecological gardens in each of our schools! Places where children can coexist with the nature that surrounds them while practicing empathy towards their peers.

Abu Milagros is a true miracle! She is a strong woman, a warrior of love and a servant at heart. Thank you, Doña Milagros, for teaching us that the real heroes are our elders. They still have so much to share, so much to show and we still have so much to learn from them.

Meeting the Plenitud PR team has been a blessing in my life and so many others. Through the Healthy Eating course, not only did I learn how to prepare food and share it with my family and friends, I’ve been able to share the knowledge with my students as well. For me, being able to prepare food in a healthy way is so important and, at the same time, truly fun because I have learned to play with flavors and different spices that give a special touch to the food. The inspiration from this initiative and its programs for Children and Youth is what has allowed us to integrate the Healthy Thursday program into my English class.

When I first came to Plenitud PR through a Service Learning trip in college, I had absolutely no idea how much my life would be transformed in just a week with the organization. I landed in Las Marías on my 21st birthday in 2013, a seemingly happy coincidence. I say this because the way that I found out about Plenitud PR was slightly unconventional; though I see now, ten years later, that it was no coincidence - just a return to home and my soul family.

When the pandemic started in 2020, I noticed my mom was off— her anxiety and changes in mood were evident. She felt that something was wrong and, after several medical appointments and physical examinations, she discovered that she had a hernia in her esophagus which was aggravating her digestion. At the time that my mother discovered her condition, I found out that Plenitud PR was planning their first Healthy Eating and Wellness pilot course. Almost eight months later, and we’ve grown so much. My mother has lost weight, she eats less meat, cooks with more intention and her gastric problems are under control. Improvements have been significant. The eyes of my mother are full of light again.