Being a woman farmer in Puerto Rico is a beautiful thing. Across Puerto Rico, women are leading farming initiatives ranging from Ayurvedic farming and permaculture, to aquaponics and indoor vertical farming, to bee conservatories and urban gardens, to an agroecology collective.
, her 14-acre permaculture farm, she does her Dinacharya, an Ayurvedic daily routine to support optimal wellness. After working with the morning sun, she holds community lunches, serving food from the farm’s harvest, and providing herbal training and educational activities in the afternoon. in India, Jey Ma saw that all the plants revered as healers were growing on the farm in Puerto Rico.
“Most farming is done in the countryside in Puerto Rico,” shares Roselly. “We’ve seen other cities build rooftop gardens, so the Whole Kids Foundation grant Isabell received is being used to build her school’s edible garden that will be educational, as well. The school will use the garden as an outdoor classroom, where kids can learn how to grow food. And because the school has a bee observatory the bees can pollinate the garden, showing the impact of bees in an urban area.
Prompted by the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Gürakiá serves a low-income community that was heavily impacted by the natural disaster. “Every land dictates something different,” says Stephanie. “Basically, that’s what agroecology is. We imitate the land we’re in, so we do a lot of work in the beginning. We don’t use pesticides. We try to use minimal harmful technology on the land because we’re trying to imitate what has already been there. So in our case in Dorado, we’re aiming to make a little food forest. We want to intervene as little as possible. Our farm is 11 acres.
“Because of the Jones Act local farms don’t get contracts with supermarkets here,” says Stephanie. “So we have to do little boxes and get one another together—at least small farms do. In agroecology I grow a little bit of everything, so maybe I wouldn’t have the capacity to feed 300 to 500 families, and I don’t expect to be able to do that because it’s not sustainable.”
Roselly and Isabelle want to see more collaboration between public and private schools, as well as the creation of a farming alliance on the island.
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