We thought we’d share some recipes for traditional Puerto Rican foods that you can share with your own families and friends, just as we’ll be doing here at the farm. Here are some classic favorite foods that you will find in homes all over Puerto Rico at Christmas time.

Right now more than ever, human beings are becoming aware of our deep interconnectedness, of the myriad ways that we belong to and depend on each other for health, happiness, and, ultimately, survival. Through the global effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the challenges facing our society as a result of broken governmental systems, and the dramatic and worsening global climate crisis, we are seeing the ways in which our collective ways of thinking and behaving affect every living being on this planet.

There are so many lessons to be learned, not only from the emergence of the pandemic itself, but also by our personal and community responses to what we are experiencing. Here at Plenitud our desire is to approach this time in our lives with a degree of openness to learning what we can from it right now—and to helping each other adapt to these changes in community.