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CD cover for Silent Knight's single "Busy is My Best Friend"

Excerpt from the Roots Music Exhibit Timeline:

"Then magic happened, the song that changed it all. Mantra. Slogan. Mindstate. All in one. I was going through a tough time. I wrote a…

Photograph of Silent Knight performing with FUSE.

Excerpt from the Roots Music Exhibit Timeline:

"I was just getting started. After experimenting with live musicians for years, it was time to bring it all together. I started working with the…

In the fall of 2011, Raíces Cultural Center began an oral history project called "Testimonials for the Ancestors", collecting video interviews from community members willing to share their stories and histories about how they remember, honor and…

In the fall of 2011, Raíces Cultural Center began an oral history project called "Testimonials for the Ancestors", collecting video interviews from community members willing to share their stories and histories about how they remember, honor and…

In the fall of 2011, Raíces Cultural Center began an oral history project called "Testimonials for the Ancestors", collecting video interviews from community members willing to share their stories and histories about how they remember, honor and…

Shelling black beans.

Harvest of tomatoes, carrots, beets and black beans

Summer harvest of carrots and green onion.

First fig fruits on our fig tree.

Baby beans in rows.

Snapdragon flower.

Beans were planted all over both garden plots.

Cucumber harvest.

Tomatoes on the vine.

Purslane is known as a weed, but is edible and nutritious. It is good raw, as in salads, as well as cooked.

Red cabbage. They grew so well, we plan to plant them again in 2012, plant an even greater amount and ferment them for homemade sauerkraut.

Beetroot, the leaves are also edible.

Cucumber growing on the vine.

Borage, an edible flower with a taste similar to cucumber.

Hibiscus blossons-No flowers were harvested for tea in 2011. The plant had been recently transplanted and was left to grow naturally for the season. In 2012, we plan to dry the flowers for tea.

Bed of lettuce.

Black beans beginning to grow in the mound.

Harvest of cucumbers, kale, wild thyme, St. John’s wort flowers, radishes and green beans.

Wild thyme (purple) and St. John’s Wort (yellow)

Cabbage