Here I am singing a song about the trash in Puerto Rico, but can also be applied to the rest of the world. I incorporated the many signs I walked around with for the past 5 years throughout the beaches and rivers in Puerto Rico as I went on a mission to raise awareness. I became the guardian of the beaches and rivers. Click here to read more about that.
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Staying In Puerto Rico To Grow Food Forest In My New Farm
For the last eight years I have lived in the beautiful paradise that is Puerto Rico. What a journey that I have been on. The road has led to this point in time where I was deciding to stay or leave, a decision I struggled with because I love this island. So much magic all in a condensed area. But the decision was made easy when I finally was able to obtain farm land to create my vision of creating a magical food forest filled with the abundance of life. In this post I will write more about my journey and the farm.
The start of my journey
Initially I came with my savings to open a business here because I wanted to open up a beach bar / party place, being that I was a DJ and a bartender. You could read more on why I moved to PR here,
One day you open your eyes and decide to start changing your perception and perspectives because you become aware of these layers of conformity that we have conformed to. In the many beautiful places here in nature is where I found the self. Where I became aware of the mask that I chose to where, the cultural programmings.
Detour
I was not the person who I thought I was, I was only the facade. I became aware of the negative aspects of my being and I decided to start changing those aspects. To become the change the world needs. So my journey took me on another path, where I quit drinking alcohol, became a vegan and started to walk around with signs to raise awareness to the litter problem here on this paradise as I became captain planet.
I decided to be the guardian of the beaches and rivers that I went to. Which I did for the last 5 years as grew a profound connection to nature, thus why I grew a connection back to the self. I became radically wild.
I did a lot in the little time that I have been here. My journey nearly ended this past February as I was shot in the head for recording a family leaving garbage. That totally changed my perspectives on many things, namely leaving the island and seeing the rest of the world.
I was so close to leaving this beautiful island, but the beautiful rivers and beaches held me back as I did not want to leave this paradise as I felt that there was more for me to do. I always enjoyed growing food and flowers and felt that I was good at it. I attribute sticking my hands in the dirt to my growth, which is why always say I don’t grow plants. They have grown me.
After being shot. I had to retire from doing what I did for the beaches and rivers. I felt there was nothing left for me, but I still knew that I could work with mother nature in a larger capacity. I could be a tool to reforest and protect the land. I have a vision for a sustainable future. All I needed was some land.
Found a new home in Puerto Rico
I was able to get the land that I wanted in Puerto Rico, a magical place with a huge forest all around me. Very fertile land to grow all the things I would like to grow. I hope to create a model for others to get inspiration from.
The farm came with an old concrete home that is a fixer upper. Now I was always against having concrete anything. But it is a lovely home. Eventually I plan is to live in the forest on a bamboo tree house, among the trees and the creatures.
I plan to live off the grid and my goal is to be totally self sufficient. A wonderful soul, an artist donated his one and only solar panel to me. So I am on my way. I am accepting donations below so that I could get other items as well, such as a cistern for collecting rain water as there is no rain water or electricity on the property.
Trees in my farm
I continue to hope to inspire change with this next project that I am working on in my farm. Which came with a wonderful food forest already established. The farm has many avocado trees, breadfruit, Grapefruits, Coconuts, Guanabanas or Soursop, Noni, Quenapas, Guava, I believe mango as well.
Trees that I will grow
I look to introduce many wonderful fruit and flowering trees. Here is a list of trees that I have in mind. Cinnamon, Jackfruit, Grummichama, cashews, cacao, vanilla,more mangos, tamarind, oranges galore of all types, lemon, lime, lychees, the list goes on and I have the space for it all.
I also look to grow lots of flowers and flowering trees, the birds, bees, bats, butterflies and other creatures need food as well. I hope to create a sanctuary habitat for them to all thrive in. When you look up from above , I want to see an array of colors. This farm will be my canvass and I will paint the art of my visions.
My plan to see the world will have to wait, but I hope to get this farm up and running with food so that I can travel the world and have a home to come back to. This farm will be my sanctuary. Where I look to continue to improving who I am in my enchanted forest.
Puerto Rico is paradise
Puerto Rico is such a paradise and I feel like the people have taken this island for granted. Many don’t realize what they have here. This island is paradise. The land is so fertile, yet many people don’t grow anything. 85 percent of the food is imported, which is a shame. But I look to become a tool and grow an abundance of food and again hope to inspire others to start doing the same.
In deciding to stay, I felt that Puerto Rico needed more people like myself, who wants to see change. I hoped to inspire that with my signs and with my messages that I post on social media and on this website.
I look forward to inspire more people by sharing more videos of my thoughts and from the farm as I will take you all on a journey of everything that takes place in the farm. So please subscribe to my youtube radicallywild and subscribe to my newsletter down below, where you will receive a monthly update on any new post.
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If anyone would like to donate to my project to help pay for fruit trees and seeds. Visit this link. I also accept gift certificates from seed companies such as bakers creek. My email is jivanwild@gmail.com
Donate To Help environmentalist create a food forest sanctuary in Puerto Rico
What do I need the donation for?
I just recently was able to acquired a wonderful piece of farm land in Puerto Rico. My goal is to create a sanctuary for the birds, bees and other creatures, so they have a peaceful place to be with an abundance of food available for them as I plan on growing a food forest. I plan on growing many flowering trees as well as many fruiting trees.
I want to create a symbiotic relationship with everything as nature intended. I need help obtaining fruit and flowering trees and shrubs. Also need help obtaining seeds. I will be sharing more videos and blogs on the progress of the farm and hope to share tips and advice. This will be my canvas, I just need the tools to create the art. Visit my channel as I already started videos. Link in the menu.
I need to get shade cloths so that I can build a propagation station. One of my goals is to propogate many flowers and plant them around the island, replacing the garbage found there.
Why should you donate?
I dedicated my time here in Puerto Rico on being the guardian of the beaches and rivers, which I go into detail below, I did not make money off of this. I actually spent most of my savings I came here with tfor my cause. but I also did tours to make money, but after being shot, I could not do tours anymore as I am traumatized as I developed PTSD. Now having this home I can have the peace that I have been seeking. Through my mission for my cause, I did not make a dime, but I did what I did from the heart and so I ask for help from the heart. I am like a non- profit organization , only just a one man army on a mission to change the world. If anyone has felt inspired by what I do or like the things I post on here or social media and would like to support what I have done and what I will continue to do. I would greatly appreciate it any help. Thanks
Who am I?
Who am I and what I have done, My name is Jivan and 9 years ago i moved from brooklyn NY, to puerto rico, during over the last 6 years, I dedicated myself to becoming the guardian of the beaches and rivers as I grew tired of seeing litter all over this beautiful paradise.
I started walking with signs to raise awareness to this problem. I became a human billboard and took my signs everywhere with me, even if there were a few people, all I needed was one person to read them. I did this almost everyday. There was one beach that I took care of the most. I would come and place my signs all over that beach and watched the beach to make sure no one left their trash and i would remind people to take their garbage.
I have been threatened many times, you can read about one of the threats here., and even shot at my face for it which could be read here, almost becoming a martyr to my own cause.
Ever since being shot, I no longer walk with my signs, but I still go cleaning the beaches and rivers when I can. I wanted to leave Puerto Rico after all that has happened to me, but an opportunity to stay presented itself as I found the land of my dreams and could work on my vision that I had for a while now, which could be read here and need your help for my vision.
I am sure I have inspired many people with what I have done and hope to continue inspiring more as I look to make videos from my farm showing the progress and sharing my perspectives on how I live. My mission in cleaning the rivers and beaches is not done yet. As I raise awareness through my social media accounts and continue to clean up the beaches and rivers.
Gift certificates
I accept gift certificates for seeds from bakers creek. and strictly medicinal Send gift certificate to jivanwild@gmail.com
Thank you for the support and all the love many of the people have showed me throughout this mission.
Many Families In Puerto Rico Enjoy The Island W/ Garbage
Ojo de agua, Manati, A beach that gets dirty all the time because the people want garbage cans conveniently for them everywhere even in hard to get to places like this. I cleaned what I could as I always do as I always do my one bag trash challenge. I picked up 3 bags of garbage. Seems to me that many families in Puerto Rico enjoying their beaches with garbage.
By the way This is the same beach where a promoter had a rave at last year and in which he threatened me for speaking out about all the garbage they left there. click here to read .
A family leaves more garbage and a diaper
A man who was with his family was seeing me take pictures and said that the people were pigs and proceeded to help me some, but I think that was because he probably felt guilty because it was him and his family leaving their garbage there. I took the three bags to put them into my small car which does not have much room, then left it on the side of my car so that I could enjoy the beach and later when I returned I could put them into my small car.
I returned to my car just to find that same family leaving their garbage on top of the garbage I just picked up, including a diaper. It is truly amazing how many of the families are here on this island. This is the mentality of many of the people here. I have seen it countless of times and even recorded one family for leaving their garbage, in which I got shot for. Click here to read about that.
The way I left it 
2 hours later that same family leaves it like this
I was so pissed off. You try to do something good and preserve this paradise and the people just want to see it destroyed because they have this mindset. This mindset of not wanting to take responsibility for nothing and having a dependency on wanting others to come clean up after them. I guess that is why many want statehood.
This family came in 3 vehicles. Any person with the right judgement and respect would have said you know what let me help this man and take a bag with me, Nope, they said let’s add on give him our trash that had food and lots of ants on it and a diaper. Oh and they even left the top of their grill and 2 gallons of water. Including more garbage down below near the ocean, including the 2 diapers on the rock, which their kids will come back to play with in the future. They also left all their cigarette butts scattered about on the sands and rocks. I wrote a post here on why the world is not an ashtray.
They bring all there garbage to the beach when it is heavy yet can’t take it out when it is light. I don’t understand that logic.
Why are most families this way?
I find that many families in Puerto Rico share this mentality. The whole family goes to the beach to celebrate a birthday or whatever, get drunk, which I think alcoholism comes into play as I wrote a blog about that here. They bring a big speaker to blast their music and leave the beaches and rivers like this. I see the families smoking cigarettes near their children, even saw one of their what appeared to be 16 years old teenage boy smoking cigarettes with them, this is the type of environment they breed for the future of this island. Yelling, screaming, teaching their kids how to hump each other to reggaeton. Not have a single care about the world and the people around them. Their children will be nothing but clones of their family. They will go on to teach their children this type of mentality and thus we have the dwindling of a generation.
Furthermore, I think this is the mentality that needs to change. I strongly feel this mentality is bred partly because of lack of education, which breeds ignorance. But I feel that the people need to take the steps to educate themselves. I am sure they have internet, where they could choose to educate themselves in order to educate their children. These families need to instill respect in themselves because I don’t think they respect themselves. Nor do I feel that these families in Puerto Rico love this paradise because someone who truly loves this island do not leave their trash all over the place.
Not all families are this way
Please understand that I don’t speak about all the families in Puerto Rico are this way. Because on the other side of the spectrum, there are families cultivating respect and love as I have met many. Including a wonderful man and his wife with their daughter who came to that beach when I found that garbage. The first thing the man does is ask me if I needed a bag. He then he pops his hood open and takes out a massive bag and proceeds to pick up more garbage that was still all around.
This is what this family is cultivating for their daughter. Moreover, they also feed the strays. at the beach. This family is what Puerto Rico is all about. Those families that still hold on to the tradition of caring. What most of those other families have lost as most families seem lost themselves.
I took 2 of the bags out , which could only fit and he took the rest. I drove down to this large dumpster down the road and threw it in there. Wow, What a concept. But that is a hard thing for most of those families.
Lost hope
When I see things like what that family did by leaving their garbage there, I lost hope. Right there, I could not fathom that they would do such a thing. But when these wonderful souls came, they lit a spark of hope back into me. It was great to see after everything I have seen. This is what the this beautiful island needs more of, because it just seems like there are more people doing bad then good
We left the beach cleaner that day, but there was so much more garbage around. We can’t do it all, but if we all did our part we can change this world. It starts with taking care of our planet instead of cultivating a mindset of wanting to trash our world.
We need to cultivate a different mindset. regain the traditions that you have lost. respect, love, caring. Don’t allow those values to die. breed a different environment. Instead of drinking, smoking cigarettes and partying on front of your kids, read a book instead. Meditate, do yoga, do something other then the never ending cycle that you have conformed to and now call culture. To change this world we are going to need to change ourselves. We must evolve instead of continuing to bury ourselves.
Please let me know if what you think of what I wrote. Do you feel most people need to change this mindset? Do you feel like I am exaggerating ? Please leave comments down below , I would like to hear from you
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Puerto Rico: Replace Garbage W/ Flowers and Fruit Trees!
Puerto Rico: Replace Garbage W/ Flowers and Fruit Trees!
I have been living in the beautiful lost paradise that is Puerto Rico for the last 8 years and over the last 5 years. When I say lost paradise, I say that because I feel that this beautiful paradise has gotten lost because the people have neglected it for far too long. It is the reason why I want to see Puerto Rico replace garbage with flowers and fruit trees.
I have been on a crusade to raise awareness to all the litter around this island, as I chose to be the guardian of the beaches and rivers as I grew tired of seeing such a beautiful island be neglected and disrespected by the people.
I would walk through the beaches and rivers with signs that I made with aggressive messages to wake people up to this reality. Also, would pick up trash day in and day out so that others could follow my example.
Here we have this beautiful tropical island with so much vast land with nothing but garbage. Garbage is what seems to be what the people continue to grow. When there could be fruit trees and flowers all over this whole island. Just like the all the mango trees found scattered throughout the island, there should also be fruit trees of many different varieties. Avocados, Jackfruit, oranges galore.
I want to see this beautiful island and our beautiful world, replace garbage with fruit trees and flowers. In order so that it could live up to the paradise that it truly is. I think it should start with communities. Cleaning up their neighborhoods and planting fruit trees, so that they could share them like they do the mangoes. Plant beautiful flowers for the birds and the bees, butterflies and other wildlife.
Hurricane maria knocked many of the trees down. I believe we must take the initiative to regrow what was destroyed. We should also stop destroying it further by treating this paradise like a landfill.
Let’s start being the change. Lets stop accepting garbage as normal. let’s start taking action to make this island and this world that is our home a better place wherever we are.
What do you think should be done about all this litter? Do you think Puerto Rico and our world in general needs more fruit trees? Please let me know what you think. Please leave comments down below!
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Audio Of Confrontation W/ The Lost Soul Who Shot At My Face In Puerto Rico
In February of 2019 I recorded a family leaving trash which can be seen by clicking here. Shortly after I was confronted by a lost soul whom the family in which I recorded called ahead to notify him that I recorded them as they wanted him to take my camera away. In the following video you will hear the audio of the confrontation with that lost soul, which resulted in me being beaten with a pistol and shot at the face. The bullet grazed by my cheekbone within centimeters of missing my face. You can read about the shooting here.
Click Here for another video I recorded after the family left the beach talking about about the garbage they left.
Video: Me Dispararon En La Cabeza Por Grabar A Esta Familia Dejando Basura En La Playa En PR
VIDEO ABAJO
Hola me llamo Jivan, Mi español no es tan bueno como no soy de aquí, llevo 8 años en el paraíso que es Puerto Rico. Vengo De Brooklyn, Ny. Puedes leer porque me mude para PR aqui. También puede ver Más contenido en el lado inglés de mi website aqui .
ENGLISH HERE. More content on the english side.
Dale Aquí puedes leer mas sobre el disparo.
Dale Aqui puedes leer por que retire los cargos contra esa alma perdida.
Dale Aqui para escuchar audio minutos ante del disparo
Yo cuidaba las playas y rios de Puerto Rico
Camino con letreros para sembrar consciencia 
hice los letreros porque no puedo hablar español muy bien. Me canse de ver como tratan esta belleza.
He estado defendiendo las playas y ríos de la basura en Puerto Rico durante los últimos 5 años . A medida que me cansé de ver cómo la mayoría de las personas de esta isla tratan este hermoso paraíso. Aquí puedes leer por qué decidí ser el guardián de las playas y ríos.
En este video canto mis letreros..
Que fue que paso?
En febrero de 2019, en una playa en Manati, Puerto Rico que cuidé casi todo los dias. Me dispararon por grabar a esta familia dejando su basura.
Había alrededor de 20 personas en total, pero se iban en grupos. Entonces, cuando vi que este último grupo se iba, me di cuenta de que iban a dejar la basura. Antes de grabar pedí que se lleva la basura, lo cual rechazaron, así que saqué mi cámara y las grabé porque sentí que tenían que rendir cuentas.
El hombre que me disparó estaba en el otro grupo que se fue antes que ellos y en el estacionamiento es donde me disparó cuando me dirigía a mi auto.
La familia me rodeó cuando el hombre me agarró, ya que la familia quería que el hombre me quitara la cámara. No lo detuvieron, pero los niños con los que estaban, que pueden escuchar en el audio y le gritaban que se detuviera. Si, el hizo esto frente de una niña y niño.
Ellos son de Caguas
Tenían 40 manos para sacar la basura de la forma en que la trajeron. Pero como muchas personas aquí que hacen esto, eran demasiado vagos para hacerlo. Todo lo que les importaba era beber, comer, pasar un buen rato celebrando un cumpleaños y joder todo lo demás.
Llegaron de Caguas de bien lejo para hacer esto. Estoy seguro de que seguirían y harían esto en cada lugar al que vayan.
No soy de Puerto Rico
Casi muero en una isla en la que no nací ni crecí solo por defender una playa de la basura. Aunque no nací y crecí aquí, estoy seguro de que amo esta isla que la mayoría de las personas que la tratan como un vertedero como esta familia.
ESTOY VIVO
Afortunadamente, logré escapar de esto con mi vida. La bala rozó mi pómulo a centímetros de mi cabeza, y afortunadamente estoy VIVO, Pero todavía sufro un trauma. Lea más de el disparo y sobre lo que paso, aquí. Necesitaba 3 puntos para la herida abierta encima de mi cabeza y 4 puntos para la herida de bala que ven en el foto.
Aquí se escuchar el audio del hombre que me disparo y del altercado .
Abajo de este video encuentran un video que tomé después de que salieron de la playa despotricando y mostrando la basura que dejaron, donde lo perro ya estaban ahí para rompe las bolsas de basura que dejaron.
Dale Aquí puedes leer mas sobre el disparo.
Dale Aqui puedes leer por que retire los cargos contra esa alma perdida.
Conclusión
Yo amo Puerto Rico. Es un paraíso, pero ya se ve que es un paraíso perdido. Yo me iba ir de la isla, pero me quede para sigue luchando porque hay mucho para luchar. Esto es un Paraíso y en mi lucha yo quiero que la gente entienda eso. Que no debemos aceptar nada menos. Que debemos defender esta belleza de isla. Que debemos de dejar destruyendo esta isla, nuestro hogar.
No es fácil lo que yo hacia, ya no camino con esos letreros, Pero sigo limpiando las playas y ríos porque es mi responsabilidad de querer mantener este paraíso como el paraíso que es. Tengo un reto de una bolsa, Llevate una bolsa cuando vayan a las playas y ríos y recojan lo que pueden, Si hacemos nuestra parte , cambiamos el mundo. Leer mas sobre ese reto aquí. Y puedes leer mas sobre porque decidir de queda me en Puerto Rico y empezar de sembrar un bosque de comida aqui,.
Gracias a todos que me apoyan que comparten esto
Por favor Comparte esto. Dejan comentario abajo. Me gustaría escuchar de ti. Que piensan de esto? Fui mal por grabarlo? Gracias
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Aquí otro video que saque demostrando la basura que dejaron
Lo que yo hago para sembrar consciencia
Video: Shot At The Head In Puerto Rico For Recording Family Leave Garbage
I have been defending the beaches and rivers of Puerto Rico for the last 5 years from litter as I grew tired of seeing how most of the people of this island treat this beautiful paradise. Here you can read why I decided to be the guardian of the beaches and rivers.
I walked around with my signs to raise awareness to the garbage
On February 2019, At a beach that I took care of, I was shot for recording this family leave garbage behind. I recorded them in order to get them to take that garbage out with them. Read more about me getting shot for this here.
Here you can listen to audio of the altercation.
Here You will find another video that I took after they left the beach ranting and showing the garbage they left.
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