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Baby lettuce

Beans planted in mounds. The empty mound would soon be covered in black bean plants.

Beans were planted all over both garden plots.

Beetroot, the leaves are also edible.

Black beans beginning to grow in the mound.

The great pollenators, bee pollenating a thornless black raspberry flower.

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

Cabbage

Summer harvest of carrots and green onion.

Cucumber growing on the vine.

Cucumber harvest.

Harvest of tomatoes, carrots, beets and black beans

First fig fruits on our fig tree.

Baby beans in rows.

Green beans were planted every two weeks providing us with fresh, crisp, refreshing green beans all summer long.

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

Early spring harvest of radishes, peas and mint.

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

A friend of Raíces donated a few trays worth of herb seedlings to plant. Good for teas, cooking and for the bees.

Hibiscus blossom-beautiful and good to dry for tea. Cooling, refreshing and high in Vitamin C.

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.

Raíces micro farm plots.

2011 was the year the deer discovered our gardens. After six years of planting out in the open, we had to put up a fence.

Prepared beds in the early spring. Green beans, black beans, basil, tomatoes, beets, cabbage and herbs later filled up these plots.