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Apiculture Initiative: Placing a Bee Box
As part of the Raíces Apiculture Initiative, Raíces Co-Directors helped our friend and supporter Susan Winkler obtain and set up her first bee hive. Here, Francisco and Sue are moving nuc bee frames into new bee box.
Apiculture Initiative: Bees in New Home
Bees moved over to their new home for Raíces Apiculture Initiative participant and supporter Susan Winkler.
Apiculture Initiative: Field Trip: Bee Box Frame
On a visit to a local beekeeper, John Yarnell. Here is Sue and John looking at an old bee box frame
Apiculture Initiative: Field Trip: Frame with Foundation
Fred Yarnell, beekeeper, looking at an old bee frame on a visit from Raíces Apiculture Initiative participants.
Apiculture Initiative: Field Trip: Honey Extractor
Stainless Steel honey extractor centrifuges.
Apiculture Initiative: Field Trip: Home Greenhouse
Beekeeper Fred Yarnell standing in the greenhouse attached to his home. Mr. Yarnell welcomed the Raíces Apiculture Initiative for a visit to his home and apiary and talked to us about his beekeeping experiences and equipment.
Apiculture Initiative: Field Trip: Styrofoam beehive box
Styrofoam beehive bee box at beekeeper Fred Yarnell’s home. This particular box is in the Langstroth model, but the only wood components are the frames inside.
Bee Box Construction: Base Board
Constructing sides of base board for a bee box. A wood router is used to bore out grooves on white pine pieces to later insert plywood base board.
Bee Box Construction: Completed Base Board
Raíces Co-Director Francisco G. Gómez holds finished bee box base board. Base board is made of white pine and plywood.
Apiculture Initiative: Raíces Bees
Raíces’ bees hanging out on the front rest board of their hive. These are Italian Apis Mellifera bees.
Bee Box Construction: Making Hive Frames
Using a wood router on a jig table to make hive frames.
Bee Box Construction: Checking Frame Measurements
Unfinished bee box. Inserting bee frame into box to check correct size.
Bee Box Construction: Cutting Slats for Bee Frame
Cutting a bee frame slat to size on a 10” Sears table saw.
Bee Box Construction: Francisco with Raíces Apiculture Bee Box
Francisco stands next to our first completed Langstroth bee box.
Common Ground Kickoff Flyer
Flyer for the first event in the Common Ground Workshop series, a collaborative program introduced in Spring 2016 by Raíces EcoCulture in partnership with Chef Enrique Pérez of Elijah's Promise.
Chef Enrique Pérez
Chef Enrique Pérez presenting his first workshop of the Common Ground program series which he developed and held collaboratively with Raíces throughout 2016.
Common Ground Program Series with Chef Enrique Pérez
In 2016, Chef Enrique Pérez collaborated with Raíces EcoCulture to give a series of free cooking and kitchen skills workshops for the community. Topics included nutrition, knife skills, healthy cooking and food security. In this photograph, Enrique…
Salad Dressing Demonstration
Chef Enrique Pérez demonstrating how to make homemade salad dressings at the Common Ground workshop series.
Dressing a Salad
Chef Enrique Pérez dressing a salad during a cooking demonstration at the first Common Ground collaborative EcoCulture workshop, held at the George Street Co-op in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Community Participation at Common Ground
Program participant Linda Powell grating cheese for a salad at the first Common Ground workshop held April 23, 2016. Workshops included cooking demonstrations and a hands-on, participatory component.
Cooking Demonstration - Homemade Salad Dressings
Ingredients for homemade salad dressings on display at the first Common Ground workshop and cooking demonstration.
Taste Testing
Common Ground program participant taste testing one of the salads made during the workshop.
Common Ground - Cooking Demonstration
Chef Enrique Pérez cutting cabbage during a cooking demonstration and workshop and salads and homemade dressings.
Preparing Cabbage for Slaw
Chef Enrique Pérez cutting a cabbage for use in a fresh slaw style salad during his cooking demonstration at the April 23, 2016 Common Ground workshop.
Chopping Cabbage
Chopping cabbage during a Common Ground "Salads and Dressings" hands-on workshop.