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Chopping cabbage during a Common Ground "Salads and Dressings" hands-on workshop.

Chef Enrique Pérez demonstrates knife safety and skills while chopping cilantro to include in his Common Ground cooking demonstration on salads and homemade salad dressings.

Chef Enrique Pérez chopping vegetables during the April 23, 2016 Common Ground workshop on salads and homemade salad dressing.

Christie Belcourt was one of the featured guests artists at the Water Is Life opening reception. Her artwork was part of the inspiration for the project and she traveled, along with artist Isaac Murdoch, from Canada to take part in the opening…

Digital painting of Chrysanthemum. This botanical illustration was created as part of a Raíces Branch of Community History digital exhibit.

Digital painting of Cinnamon Tree. This botanical illustration was created as part of a Raíces Branch of Community History digital exhibit.

Raíces EcoCulture volunteer Cío Herzog working in one of the Raíces EcoCulture garden plots.

Raíces Cultural Center director Francisco G. Gómez collects litter from along the banks of the Raritan River, later to be used as art materials for "garbage art" sculptures in the Our Plastic Waters eco-art workshop.

Student volunteers going the extra mile to remove plastic pollution out of a feeder stream along the banks of the Raritan River.

Middlesex County Conservation Corps coordinator Griffith Boyd helped with the logistics of the Our Plastic Waters cleanup along the Raritan River waterfront during the Water Is Life initiative.

Volunteer cleaning along the waterfront of the Raritan River as part of the Our Plastic Waters EcoArt Workshop in the Water Is Life Initiative.

Unknown demonstrators from the People's Climate March.

An unknown demonstrator who stopped by to drum with Raíces EcoCulture participants while waiting to match in the People's Climate March.

"Drumming up support" at the People's Climate March.

Group preparing to march at the 2017 People's Climate March.

Coffee and doughnut made out of plastic utensils, plastic lids and excess food packaging. Sculpture by Lisa Bagwell.

Collard greens growing in the Raíces EcoCulture garden.

Volunteers cleaning a quarter mile stretch of the Raritan River waterfront as part of the Our Plastic Waters EcoArt Workshop in the Water Is Life Initiative. After the cleanup garbage collected was sorted and transformed into eco-art sculptures.

Flyer to encourage Highland Park residents to come out and vote for Raíces Cultural Center’s Eco-Culture Program in the 2017 Park Partners Grant Competition.

Young springtime Comfrey leaves.

Chef Enrique Pérez cutting cabbage during a cooking demonstration and workshop and salads and homemade dressings.

Raíces co-founders and co-Directors Francisco G. Gómez and Nicole Wines with the youngest program participant at the first Common Ground workshop held April 23, 2016, who attended specifically to learn how to make homemade vegan salads and salad…

Chef Enrique Pérez gives a cooking demonstration during the kickoff Common Ground workshop held on April 23, 2016 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. This was the first in a series of community cooking workshops held collaboratively throughout 2016.
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