mural - panel 3

In the upper part of the mural, the street-scape flows into an urban presence into an overhead view of a prominant corner in Main and Cabot St in South Holyoke where the non profit urban garden organization, Nuestras RaÌces and the Centro Agricola Plaza is located.

This corner in real life consists of a greenhouse for growing plants for the community gardens in the city, a mural designed and created by the youth program, a pond, perennial and annual plants, a community kitchen, a community library, and the home of El Jardin Bakery and Mi Plaza Restaurant. There is also a representation of the La Finquita, the community garden that Nuestras RaÌces grew from.

In the upper and lower halves of this section, there are depictions of the canal, factories, tenement houses now apartments, and warehouses. In the lower part of the mural, the city scenery flows into the canal, a historic symbol of the post industrial paper mill days which the youth recreated into their idea of transforming the unfunctional canals into a community space with recreational activities like paddle boating. Luz Aldeco also contributed her vision of a star shaped park. There are several photo transfers incorporated into some of the buildings lining the canal. One is an image of a store front mural painted by Jesse Vega-Fry stating "There is no way to peace, peace is the way."